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Definitely feel this with 5e. I've never ever, ever, ever seen a hexblade use the fluff from the book. It's always an old one hexblade, or a celestial hexblade, or a mechanical hexblade, or a guy with an intelligent weapon. If I hadn't read the book, I never would have known that the default...

The big thing for me is monster and encounter design. One of the features they're pimping is the removal of PHB spells from monsters which was the largest proud nail for me when they moved to 5e. I remember the 4e design process where they ostensibly solved all of the issues I had with 3.5...

If you're using a grid and say that the point of origin is only a point within the square, then the edge of the effect ends up filling half a square at the edge of the AOE since we're using round numbers (start in a half square, end in a half square), which is messy but generally effects targets...

That's what I always thought and how I would rule it. Apparently, Mearls or Perkins thinks the flavor text of this spells overrides the rules text for AOEs somehow.

The real issue is how you run AOEs and blocking terrain. I always assumed walls and floor blocked it since it's an AOE but folks in one of my groups were linking tweets where a dev was saying that it goes through barriers.

The way you encourage your player base to pirate your book is to only include it in an expensive bundle until some future date.

I just bought Stephen King's Night Shift on Kindle. To my surprise, there were no fear/horror/madness rules mechanics, so clearly the stories are meant for kids. Because you can't tell a horror story without a number that tells you how horrific it is, right?

I'm running the UA chromatic as a fighter now and i don't use the breath much. Of course, as you get more attacks it actually becomes more attractive because it now only replaces one attack. In the one instance where i blew through all of my daily uses, i spammed an area where guys where hiding...

I glad to see the UA metallic dragonborn made the cut. I'm playing the UA chromatic and this leads me to believe they probably made it too.

I associate old school Hobbit media with little cartoony people with hairy feet. It's weird to claim that Tolkien was grim-dark compared to 5e. Remember when DnD was sooooo dark??

The party I'm in right now (with the rune knight!) also has a twilight cleric. The DM generally creates monsters that can do damage to almost everyone on the board every round to negate the benefits of high AC (multiple AOEs with half damage on a save) and the amount of effective healing that...

Back when we were running 3.5 multiple times a week, a lot of us who DMed started to transition from running the recommended amount of daily encounters to just going one big one per day. It ended up making things a lot more dramatic, more often. We either had a social or exploration day, or one...

Is flight at level 1 overpowered compared to other options? Yes. Will it inevitably break the game? No. Does it limit the sort of challenging encounters the DM can run? Yes. Does this stop the DM from coming up with challenging encounters? No.

I want a setting that feels fresh in an exciting way. If a setting just feels like generic homebrew number 345,304 but with professional art and editing, I'm probably not going to be invested enough to run it instead of working on my own concept. I also want enough explanation and depth in the...

In the first campaign that I ran a RK, there was a wizard holding people hostage. He had a a horrible scythe trap in the entrance of the room that worked off of an attack roll and had nearly killed someone. My turn came up and I told the DM that I laid in the trap and let it hit me directly. He...

The rune knight is the first subclass I've played more than once. The Cloud Rune is the most dramatic and fun feature in 5e.

Is there a serious question about whether people, in general, prefer sexy people over ugly people?

My generic homebrew setting when I run "standard" DnD is a world of floating earthmotes that move around a gaseous miasma. No oceans or known planetary surface. The story of how the planet got to this condition is based solely in magic instead of physics though - spell casters in an ancient war...