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Yeah, and that's a druid without even Natural Spell + summoning, all of which is just pure PHB. Some really basic stuff can break 3.5e across its knee let alone weird-ass naughty word like Divine Metamagic + Nightstick shenanigans. Truly: 346 Swoop, There It Is - Giant in the Playground Games Honestly...

Waaaaaait...so with the online system it doesn't even allow your DM to homebrew naughty word and override the basic rules to put in any combination of stats and skills and feats you want? Really? That sounds horrible.

This isn't in the obnoxious/nitpicking category for me. To quote my son when telling his friend why he likes D&D so much: "in D&D you can do stuff that you can't do in a computer game, you can do whatever you want." By clipping D&D's wings down to what a computer can understand, 5e is directly...

I agree that a lot of things that people online talk about as absolutely HUGE problems often just don't crop up in games in the real world at all. For example in theory 3.5e has absolutely nightmarish balance issues on paper but I had whole campaigns in which that didn't just crop up at all...

As I said upthread I think this situation is a bit analogous to the changeover from 2e to 3e. If you used 2e tactics in 3e things worked pretty smoothly. But after a while people figured out what tactics worked the best under 3e rules (mostly save or suck/lose effects, with direct damage being...

Been a bit out of the loop on 5e replacement games. If the thing I love the most about D&D is having the creative freedom to do things like come up with any verb I want for Command what sets Level Up apart from the competition? Some short info would be very appreciated.

They're cutting back on the whole "rules not rulings" ethos and moving back towards 4e's "a wall between fluff and crunch made out of tigers with tigers on top" ethos without also bringing back the aspects of 4e that I liked. A good example of this is how Command has been utterly gutted. This...

Huh, that's something I honestly didn't consider. Since NOT spamming WM is kind of the equivalent of not spamming bonus attacks if you have PAM. Looking at things tactically there's literally no reason NOT to spam WM. I think we're going to see a period of adjustment where at first people play...

In any game I DM I'm using paper character sheets as the default. Even with online games I lay all of the PCs' printed out character sheets in front of me so I can see all of them at once.

I'm certainly not going to let an app tell me how I can play D&D.

Yup, modules are by far the easiest thing to convert from one edition to another. Like I said upthread I once ran a 0e adventure for two 5e players converting a few things (like saving throws) on the fly but leaving basically everything else intact. Level drain scared the crap out of my players...

To quote a random decade-old post by "Random Nerd" on rpg.net my ideal magic system for D&D would look something like: "Okay, I can talk to spiders, fly for as long as I can hold an ice cube in my mouth, curse people to be unable to see dogs, and read the mind of anyone who's holding a fork. I...

Sure. It can be done pretty easily if DMs want to. But will DMs want to? They didn't with 3.0 and 3.5e content or with 3.5e and Pathfinder 1e content despite mixing and matching stuff between those games being pretty damn easy. WotC can't just declare stuff "backwards compatible" or not and...

Well they're about to be. Unless 5.5e gets basically universal adoption among 5e players, there'll be a shorthand that'll quickly reach consensus for distinguishing between the older side the newer version of the rules. That wasn't necessary last year because of how dominant 5e was that if you...

Feature not bug, glorious glorious feature. Fighters should be the best class in a straight-up fight. Wizards should be cheating bastards who figure out clever ways to use their spells to get an edge and set things up. Sledgehammer vs. Swiss army knife.

D&D can certainly be used as a storytelling game without any combat at all. Hammers can also be used as eating utensils by spooning food into your mouth with the claw bit in the back. Doing so would be rather silly considering the existence of tools that are far better suited to that purpose.

It's not really the RPG industry, just WotC-D&D specifically. 3e, 4e, and 5e all rebuilt the game from the ground up in a way that's very much not normal in the RPG market more broadly with a few exceptions like WHFRP. Different editions of CoC have been very much editions in the way that...

I'm not so confident that 5.5e will displace 5e to the extent that yiu won't have to specify which version of D&D you'll be playing in a year or two. It'll probably be easily the biggest RPG on the market, but I don't think it'll ever get close to 5e's absolute dominance of the market at its...

"Backward compatible" isn't an objective standard. It's all a sliding scale. I've played a very fun campaign in which the players used 5e stats and adventured in a 0e dungeon with me using unconverted 0e HPs, spell effects, etc. and handwaving everything that didn't work. Was so much fun I did...

Yup, and I'm a bit surprised that I haven't seen more people noticing this especially on forums with a lot of grognards. Maybe they're just doing it slowly enough since more recent splatbooks have been inching away from the more "natural language" approach for a long time now. It's not a big...