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I think the trend is exacerbated by live play streams too. When I moved across the country and tried to find a fresh group at the local store, I was surprised that literally every new player at the table said that Critical Role was what got them to show up. If new folks are watching live play...

I didn't create this thread because I'm personally have pacing problems when running games. My reason for posting this is that I've never played in a game that had the recommended number of combats as presented in the DMG and it seems like the developers balanced things around a sense of pacing...

Published campaigns always seemed pretty bad to me for pacing because they can't accommodate for your party, unless you're changing them anyway and at that point I might as well just make my own campaign. I'm not really having troubles with pacing as a DM, I'm just pointing out that I never play...

After running a ton of 3e, 4e, and 5e, I'm favoring the concept of per encounter design more and more because it makes it much easier to run whatever number of combats makes sense for the plot without the system creating intentional resource differential between people in the same party...

That's great in theory but if you design a class that shines the same for each encounter for any number of encounters at any level and you have another class that scales wildly with level and the number of encounters and with the number or resources per day, it makes balancing new classes more...

To be clear, I'm talking about homebrew classes and subclasses, not DMing. Running down resources in a session isn't exactly the issue, it's making it seem fair across the level progression between classes.

I'm trying to balance damage when making homebrew and my experience with the paladin is that the scaling is ridiculous. At low levels, you have hardly any smites, but then at high level you have more damage than you can ever spend in a real-world 2-encounter day.

I've been playing or running 5e pretty consistently since launch across multiple groups, stores, and states. One thing that seems pretty regular across all of those tables though, and that's the number of average combats per day. If I had to give an integer, I'd say that the average I've seen is...

The issue with a lot of sexual or edgy content is that its often a lazy stand-in for compelling storytelling. Why put in effort to weave a nuanced plot that makes the audience consider mature topics when it's just easier to get a cringe reaction with overt torture or rape?

When I was a child, I liked cartoonish things, like anthropomorphic animals. When I became a teenager, I felt that those things were childish and thought that "edgy" stuff like sex-slaving darrow were cool and "mature." Now that I'm older, I think the edgy stuff is childish and am less afraid...

People always want to pretend like old dnd didn't look like this in the books -

How this thread started: "Look at these cute rabbit people." How it's going: "DnD needs more sex slavery."

The reason I like what they're doing is that it's literally the exact opposite of watering it down. When you water down an alcoholic drink, you're adding the same liquid that's in a bunch of other drinks and leaving less of what makes it different. If you remove ability score mods from race...

I have a lot of fond memories of d20 modern but I can't imagine wanting to touch a 3e version again. I'd love a legit 5e adaptation though and i've seen some third party future stuff.

I didn't respond to the poll, btw, because my answer wasn't an option. I'd say "sometimes you should raise the challenges to meet optimization and other times you should let them dominate encounters."

I used to try to make every encounter match the party's power level and give them a challenge each time. I eventually realized that it's tiring as a player to always scrape by every fight by the skin of your teeth. Now that I've got some grey, I try to mix up my encounters - give them some that...

TMNT and other strangeness. One of my favorite 90s rpgs that I owned but never played.

Is there an official gnoll option?

I usually see DMs running it like there is a surprise around. In the first round, only people who aren't surprised get to act and everyone who is surprised does not. Surprise ends after that first round. This negates the brokenness of the default rules where a sniper can initiate a combat, lose...