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Honestly, I felt like he was just rating them from most to least iconic. Like the iconic monsters are tough to summon, but the equally powerful monsters he didn't feel are as iconic are easier to summon. Personally, if they're going to have easy-mode summons, I'd prefer that stick with...

Because that's taking away something without adding anything. There are more humans-in-funny-suits races in D&D than we'll ever need. You can have all sorts of realistic human-ish species fighting against other realistic human-ish species. Even tiled over an entire setting, you'd never run out...

I haven't played this, but I was going to suggest you take a look. I've heard that it does this better than anything else. Blue Rose also comes up a lot in those conversations, but I don't actually recall it having rules for much of that. Should be pretty cheap to pick up now, though. Cheers...

Yeah, nothing so exciting :) Math-wise it does a good job moving results away from the middle. It can't crack open a sure thing, though. If you were going to hit for sure beforehand, disadvantage does basically nothing. And if there's no chance to get up the cliff, advantage does nothing. I...

B2: Keep on the Borderlands for old school fun. It's a great excuse to just GM. Played strictly from the text, I don't think it does much, but it asks a lot of the right questions. Jacob's Well from Dungeon 43 is the first adventure I ever DM'd and is a personal favorite. I also remember it as...

I'd prefer they be cordoned those sorts of spells off into some sort of dedicated opt-in ritual system, but that's probably a little too 4e for them. Failing that, I agree that calling them out as optional would be nice, sort of like they did with some races in the last packet. I think the game...

Sure thing. It's just because it's adding more to keep track of in combat. If you have, say, three attacks, you already need to keep track of which is which (because descending BAB values). But with advantage, you need to roll two for each attack and keep track of those properly as well. You're...

Agreed on advantage/disadvantage, although it works much better in games without multiple attacks. I'm running high-level Pathfinder right now and advantage on attack rolls would be a mess. I'd try to get the sorcerer and warlock back in their, first priority, but the game's drifted quite a...

Yeah, that's very key. I think it could be a better story, but if they keep it as a story I won't have to retcon it. Even felliron would be better, although not by much. Ironfell sounds like it should be a place name where a meteor fell or a "fell" made out of iron. At least felliron sounds like...

Absolutely. But it's really easy to do that when you have a PC with the full power of the DM behind them. So DMPC gets a negative connotation because a lot of DMs back in the day wanted to tell a story with an NPC as the main character. Which, even by itself, isn't necessarily a problem. But a...

Got that for you. Cheers! Kinak

This week, James Wyatt talks about Yeenoghu, Orcus, and general demon summoning. The focus is really about how summoning a demon into the world is a big deal and should leave a permanent stain, which I can absolutely get behind. I'm not sure about the examples, though. To me, they both seem...

Covered that for you. As a pejorative, it tends to have a flavor of "DM's pet PC." So they're way more powerful, can do no wrong, have complete plot immunity, never die, and generally overshadow the PCs. In fanfiction, they'd be considered "Mary Sues," if that helps. Except, unlike fanfiction...

Woo! I was looking forward to looking this over. Thanks for the news! And under OGL v1.0a to boot. Very classy. Cheers! Kinak

Oh, yeah, absolutely. "Presenting" probably wasn't the best word choice on my part. I'm not worried about the text formatting or complete lack of descriptive text or anything like that. But a lot of the abilities require more bookkeeping or rolling than I think they merit. Multiple attacks that...

1 & 2) I really don't like how 5e has been presenting monsters thus far. But both of these are sort of non-answers, so I can't speak to whether we're looking at an improvement, a worsening, or just more of the same. In my perfect world, I'd like to see extremely condensed monster stat blocks...

I don't think my players would mind me having a character travel with them all the time (especially if it filled a role that they didn't want to), but I've found I have more than enough to do in combat without adding another factor to every one. Cheers! Kinak

Great overview! Seriously, I don't watch TV at all, so it's nice to know what's out there. My spouse and I might grab a modern TV show after we catch up on Star Trek... but we're in Season 2 of the Original Series now. Not a show, but I'm still working out the kinks of Legend of Zelda (or WoW...

Starting with the inn and basement is about as classic as it gets. Right up there with the mysterious stranger in the corner of the bar offering a quest. If you've got tunnels and Tiamat (hey, did you hear about my new game, Tunnels and Tiamats?), I think kobolds would be a great fit. They're...

I'm not really ready to pass judgement on whether 5e is for me. The current packet isn't to my tastes... previous packets were. Once it's reached a static version, I'll be able to say something about 5e rather than an amorphous blob of rules. And even then, who knows, it might be not-my-game at...