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Point buy has always looked weird to me, and seemed like a video game type feature, something you would see in a D&D based video game. Having played since 98 for me making characters has always been a big part of playing the game, imo when you're doing it you're already playing D&D, and in my...

That Aarakocra kind of sounds like he's wearing a mask similar to the Magus' mask in The Magus' Bride.

Levels 1-4 are whatever you make them. It doesn't matter what level you are, the GM makes the universe and can tweak whatever he wants in order to make a good experience for him/her self and the players. It isn't hard at all to make lvl 1 characters feel heroic.

Nope. I'm more in the camp of allowing not only whatever is in the phb but brewing up other options that wouldn't be balanced if I just ran things like the phb and dm guide suggests, all I do is scale up the encounters I give them. In fact I have a reputation for difficult encounters and...

The party that I currently GM for has a human fighter, a green hag, a demonic soul stealing orc, a part celestial orc, a wyrmling they're raising and an intelligent (like 7 int) ogre zombie named Fred. The wyrmling and zombie have full character sheets and the 4 players take turns playing two...

For me this is very much a positive and I waited for years for 5E to become more like 3e.

My mindset is that no matter what more splat books is good. Even lower quality splat books I love them all. However, that doesn't mean I turn them all over to the players, they never know if something is home brewed or not because I brew a lot as well. So should Toril be salvaged? For me the...

-This isn't functionally as much of a thing for me because as a GM I'm pretty judicious about fudging rolls, and will ratchet up the tension by purposely downing players, using wargaming tactics, throwing well built parties at them, using a homebrew alternative to the initiative system... With...

It's surprising how many more people use point buy than rolling.

Cave in downed three players.