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You pulled some great sample cards (and thus cool ideas in your text to accompany them) for this article. I especially like the watery grave image. I haven't played MtG in a very long time; sold off my every precious Sliver Deck many moons ago, so Ravnica feels very new to me and am quite...

In those few instances where I get to play a character, the DMing that can make me eager to 'get back behind the wheel' so to speak, are the overly descriptive ones. A fine balance between key details and immersion is important. If this strange new land has purple grass that fans out at the...

I suffered through the original dragonlance novels just to get to read "The Second Generation" and "Dragons of Summer Flame" which made it all worth while. Of course, the Song of Huma sheet music being printed in the back of "Second Generation", as well as Knights of Takhisis AD&D 2E...

Started long ago with PC death coming at the hands of randomness (with famous death trap modules like elemental evil and tomb of horrors), Mr. D's home campaign emulated those as best he could - it was just the times. I played them for a decade or more, had my fill, and now we like the rich...

From the multiclassing section in the PHB: Pact Magic. If you have both the Spellcasting class feature and the Pact Magic class feature from the warlock class, you can use the spell slots you gain from the Pact Magic feature to cast spells you know or have prepared from classes with the...

Color me intrigued as well. I could not care any less where the setting comes from (MtG, Miniature Giant Space Hamsters' Imaginary Barbarian Companions, or elsewhere), only that it seems interesting - and I quite like the overall theme with this one. The positive being said, I am... worried...

The closest experience I've had to that was one of the 4th edition experiences at my local game shop before the release, where we had the pregen character cards and ran the mini adventure. Think I got the cleric. However, let's face it - just another rendition of Dungeons and Dragons, so I...

Static, even if for the lone reason of hating non-RPG material influencing a campaign setting (novels, movies, etc). Going even beyond that, however, I prefer for a setting to only hint at dynamic changes. The King -could- be assassinated by this organization over here. It -might- have these...

Asking for more detail always seems to trigger something "Intellectual" on behalf of a character. When I feel like my 'brilliant' character is being failed by my own brain at grasping the clues of the situation, I'll start asking as many questions as I can about my surroundings, the people, the...

I'm tentative, but I'll give it /half/ a chance - meaning, I'll buy this on DnD Beyond should it be the next campaign, but not in Hardcover. I don't know much about the lore of MtG anything (though I played it back in the 90s), but willing to find out through DnD - so a nice digital discount...

It's hard to tell you what's great for you, so I'll just share my normal approach to rogue in regards to your questions. I would put proficiency in Athletics over Acrobatics; that'll give you a +2 and +3 respectively, so you'll be fit for any situation a typical rogue might find himself in...

I'm with you here - my hands down most disappointing aspect of Xanathar's. I loved the Oath of Redemption, so I've had to just make my own balanced version of the playtest material. Armor of Peace has already created two fantastic paladin concepts in my games since the UA came out, and no way...

I'm so looking forward to this. Got a softback copy of the 1E from a little shop in a halfprice a long time ago, originally sold in a store in England (according to the old sticker on it).

My favorite to date in the series! This is my all-time favorite dnd monster, and you truly hit it spot on. Somewhat patiently awaiting more!

In truth, it hasn't affected my players' desires of how to build a character - if someone wants Con to be their low, or at least moderately low stat, they'll still go with it - the hit point difference at first through third levels just lets them be a bit tougher than typical early characters -...

It is purely dependent on the starting level for the campaign. The higher the level, the more detail I want - there's no specifics other than that. If I'm starting the players with one or two magic items, in example, I require them to create an interest story as to how they received the item...

I actually took it from Monte Cook's Book of Eldritch Might (I think that's the name of it). It was the first place I saw the concept of dividing hit points into Vigor and Health, so I just use his old formula from 3rd edition, but yeah basically, you're spot on. Hit Die = Vigor, Con = Health...

For low-fantasy, standard array or point buy. For high-fantasy, Roll.

That's a typo on FG. The actual text just says "Once per turn when you fire an arrow from a shortbow or longbow as part of the Attack action"

I'm a bit of a dork in this regard. I read them aloud myself when I'm alone, throwing my deep dark DM voice (should the tone allow), and check it for representation. Sometimes I find the need to rewrite them because they do get very long-winded as Lanefan indicated. All of my players (and...