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If there is one thing I've gotten from this thread, it's that handing out advantage or disadvantage for clever uses of Minor Illusion is a great idea. The bard in our party just took it as her next cantrip, and I've been wondering how to handle it--I don't want it to become a insta-win button...

I too don't particular care for the "Huge" dungeon crawl-huge in quotes to denote that I mean a site based adventure that takes several play sessions to complete that can't be done without either leaving the dungeon or holing up in a room to rest. I think the last one of these I did was maybe...

Let's give credit to 5e a little bit. Fighters have a specialization, it's true, but it's a lot less extreme than in previous (*cough, cough* 3rd) editions. While my fighter is a great weapon fighter, he doesn't lose all that much if he plies his bow for a few rounds, or switches two sword and...

Interesting, so their errata needs errata. (Sorry I didn't get back to you with a reply earlier). This line really confuses things, and make me wonder what problem they were trying to fix in the first place--since as written in the book, this position held. As far as fighters are concerned...

Originally unarmed attacks were considered simple weapons, which meant fighter abilities that required "weapons" worked. The recent rules update changed it so now unarmed attacks are specifically "not" weapons, so fighter abilities explicitly do not work with them.

Not new, but still bad design. And disappointing that they changed it in the one edition that previously had gotten it right.

Well, since the latest rules update, fighter abilities don't work when the fighter is unarmed, which is stupid. The fighter should be all about killing you with whatever is available, not helpless the moment you take his favorite toy away from him. You don't learn how to kill something with a...

On balance, yes. While I might prefer some more technical proficiency for a piece of cover art, I like the composition, I like the fact that it's clearly aimed at inspiring the imagination of young men, and I like the fact that it's not afraid of skin, muscle, and testosterone. I wish more...

Screw that, unarmed strike will continue to count as weapons in any game I run.

Rapiers and scimitars actually are very similar in weight. Rapiers are just a lot longer.

I really hate that initiative rolls are an ability check. you've got situations where the bard and the champion get 1/2 proficiency bonus to a check that no one else can even gain proficiency for.

The art needs more violent human men doing violent things, with swords...lots and lots of swords. With lots of mighty thews. The art ranges, with the exception of one artist, from competent to exceptional. However, the art direction is abysmal.

Wow, I haven't been back to Enworld in a couple days; didn't realize I was getting feedback. I'll admit to an ulterior motive on this. I'd been using inherent bonuses to fix the math going back to 3e, and found it frustrating nobody else did. Suddenly in 4e, WOTC puts in a book and suddenly...

I imagine a lot of you, like me, prefer worlds that feel more like Hyborean Earth or Nehwon than Middle Earth. When you're running these kinds of campaigns, do you prefer to require all your players to use the Human race, or do you allow the reflavoring of the demihuman races as types of...

I think a lot of the monster art is great. And there's some good stuff in the DMG. The art in the Player's Handbook seems actually chosen to repulse me. It's to the point that I prefer to use the Basic rules just so I don't have to look at it. I would pay money to buy an art-free pdf of the...

Dr. Strange is another benevolant Warlock. Those Great Old Ones you call on aren't necessarily evil. They're just old. The Vishanti, Agamotto, the mystic Nine or some eldritch being you made up yourself--some ancient power, fraught with mystery, who nevertheless lends its power to help stave...

That piece was all right; it looks much better as a stand alone piece than it did in the book; there were a couple others that were okay. Of course, in the book, they swallowed up the picture by blurring the edges and adding edge dressing that compressed the look of that picture so much of the...

While I'm not certain about this specific case-assuming a vanilla, roughly 16th Century tech world which seems the default D&D standard. A scholar very well may have heard stories of some desert dwelling creature even though he'd personally never ventured there. I think people underestimate...

So far, my only real disappointment is the spineless, weak-kneed art trying so hard to be inoffensive rather than exciting. As I've said before, when the kobold is drawn more heroically than any PC in the Player's Handbook, you know you've done something wrong. The only thing the art directors...

As long as the player isn't looking for powergame comboes, I'd say just let them use dex if it makes them happy (perhaps require them to have strength 13 or something). Rather than going for a hard and fast rule, just hand wave it as an exception, and move on. I've never gotten the...