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I feel like there are two different arguments going on in this thread. Establishing lore at the table for your players is important for immersive gameplay and good storytelling. I agree with that. That said, the lore at your table doesn't need to match the lore at anyone else's. Canon, in my...

You could lean into the golem's silence. Maybe the advisors constantly try to justify their actions by claiming that whatever movement or gesture by the golem was actually an order to do something. Or, if you're using more intelligent golems ala Discworld, maybe the golem can't speak but can...

I strongly doubt it. They'd only do something like that if they thought it would be more profitable than the status quo, and I just don't see where they think this would benefit them. The OGL legal language is pretty ironclad. They're not going to be able to get out of that. Unless OneD&D is way...

Lore and PC options are both important and should go hand in hand. That said, I can come up with my own good lore more easily than I can write good PC options, so I'd be more likely to buy PC options. I'm sure that there are a lot of people on this forum who feel the opposite way. I don't think...

I think a variation on the 4e style might be the best option. Provide a line or two in italics describing what the spell does, then give all the dice mechanics, legalese, and exceptions in a box below. The downside is that takes up more space on the page, but I think the extra flavor on each...

I had an idea a while back for a campaign kind of like yours. In my campaign, certain spells have just stopped working, seemingly at random. The players are a group of spellcasting investigators trying to figure out why the spells stopped working and also find new replacement spells that can...

I like the idea of proficiency bonus being a die value rather than a set bonus, but in play it seems to slow down the game as you have more numbers to add every time.

I don't see them eliminating any PHB classes in this edition. Giving players fewer options would be deeply unpopular, even if the overall game was better for it. I do think the new PHB will have something else new that didn't previously exist in 5e (besides the ardling) as a way to get players...

I like standardization to some extent, but I don't want this to be the standard. I've never really liked the idea that divine casters automatically knew all the spells in their class spell lists and could cast anything from the list that they prepared and had a slot for. Instead, I'd rather...

Wait a minute. HEROIC INSPIRATION When you have Heroic Inspiration (also called Inspiration), you can expend it to give Yourself Advantage on a d20 Test. You decide to do so immediately after rolling the d20. Am I misreading this, or is this saying that you declare you're using inspiration...

There's an error in the ranger's sample spells. They're supposed to get two first-level spells and two cantrips at level 1, plus Hunter's Mark, which doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare. But the sample has four spells including Hunter's Mark, so there should be another...

I see this as being roughly equivalent to requiring martial characters to use silvered or cold iron weapons in certain situations. Which is perfectly fine, as long as those characters have a way to get the right weapons eventually or have something else important they can do in a fight. If...

What is the reason behind specifying that the magic items be Very Rare? If you're just going to take them away, game balance isn't a problem. And if you want to let the PCs eventually get even better Legendary or Artifact items as replacement later on in the campaign, doesn't that negate your...

How about this for a final plot twist: BBEG was right. All magic items are inherently evil and the rest of the campaign is the party tracking magic items down and permanently destroying them. The BBEG was just doing his job until the PCs killed him for taking their stuff.

Consider this campaign where PCs can't get particular items back ever but hold false hope that they can. Now consider one where PCs can't get the items back until they beat the very last boss. There is no difference between these campaigns until the end of the last session where the PCs win and...

I think it's mostly fine. Retrieving powerful McGuffins is a time-honored campaign premise, and letting the PCs select and use the items in Session 1 will just make the PCs more attached and madder when your BBEG steals the items away. However, if the PCs can't do anything to stop the BBEG...

I'm not spoiled by the 5e ruleset or any mechanical aspect of the game. There are lots of great RPGs out there that I'd enjoy playing. I am absolutely spoiled by the product support that 5e has, by the huge number of 5e players and DMs, by the digital tools that exist for 5e, and by the...

Making more spells require saving throws instead of spell attack rolls would take a lot of the sting out of losing the ability to crit on a spell attack. It also makes using magic feel mechanically different from fighting with weapons, which is nice. At the table, you could have players roll the...

Three, kind of. I bought the PHB in 2014, but when the pages started falling out, I wrote to WotC and they sent me another one. Then I glued the pages back into the binding so now I've got two physical copies, plus one digital on D&D Beyond.

One of the terms of the OGL is that you can't say "Dungeons and Dragons" or "D&D" in your third-party product. Publishers broadly talk about "Fifth Edition" or "5E" instead, and most of us understand what they mean. Even if WotC wants to ditch edition numbers on their own products, OGL...