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In 3.5 I was playing in an Eberron adventure. 2 airships where 5 feet apart and the DM asked my Str 22 barbarian to make a Jump check to clear the gap. I rolled a 1 and fell 1,000 feet.

Maxing out your main stats seems so ubiquitous that the "choice" between ASIs and feats feels like one of the failed experiments of 5e, to me. I like the concept of more robust feats that don't require clunky trees and arbitrary prereqs, so 5e feats are an improvement over 3x and 4e for me in...

My issue has been the banning mechanical options that are considered standard has usually been a sign, in my experience, of a DM with control issues. It's isn't so much an issue with a need for me to have feats as much as it just comes off as a red flag.

Sort of off topic, but has anyone played A Plague Tale? I was running through it when the Ravenloft book got announced and thought it would make a perfect domain. Having deadly swarms dominate any area of darkness also helps make darkness scary, even for characters with darkvision.

The first full DnD campaign I ever participated in was a Ravenloft game I DMed back in the summer of 2003. I had all of the 2e Ravenloft material in the 90s and had been a fan long before I ever actually played. I have a feeling that there is a good portion of the customer base like me - I'm...

Icingdeath - Forgotten Realms Nathair - Forgotten Realms Raulothim - Forgotten Realms Fabian - Dragonlance Enworld posters: "Clearly, it's a Dragonlance book instead of another Forgotten Realms book."

Really, it's pretty much how fiction works in general. The protagonist is, or is not, the appropriate power level for whatever they face, since it's all authorial fiat. There's a lot of math stuff that makes RPGs run, from attack rolls to ability scores, but arbitrary points based on killing...

This looks like a pretty good way to make a 5,000 gp thing for free with Limited! Sometimes I miss the old 3.5 message boards on WotC where you could talk about crazy broken rule hypotheticals without any weird puritanical rp gatekeeping. Part of the problem is that Limited is restricted to...

People really still use alignment in DnD? I mean, as more than a vague thing you write on a sheet and forget about when you establish a personality.

The specific combo of things like color-coded dragonborn, tiefling, warforged, etc, in a party make a game feel like DnD simply because elves and dwarves are so ubiquitously generic to fantasy. Any old franchise is going to have an all human party, with a dude with pointed ears and a guy with a...

In one of these threads someone mentioned the latest season of Crit Role, which is up to session 130 and includes a monk with an above average stat line. The fans keep detailed notes on every interaction and roll that happens on air, so this is an amazingly thorough public test of the monk. I'll...

I think this presents a completely different axis to the original premise. "Sandbox vs. Party-appropriate" and "Planned vs. Ad-libbed" are spectra that interact in all sorts of ways.

Truth. I've never played in or ran a game where the DM threw out encounters of completely arbitrary challenge level compared to the party the entire campaign, which is what you would get if you were really running a "sandbox," as per the OP. The reality is that people that think they run...

I can't remember the last time I was in a group that used alignment. I had forgotten it was even in 5e.

I was trying come up with a new paradigm for classes and race design and was considering using tier as a progression. At this point though, "proficiency bonus per day" is a more and more used mechanic and I think that adding tier in there too ads a needless extra layer. I'd run with prof bonus...

I don't think this change fixes what's wrong with dragonborn. Let players use it as a bonus action and suddenly it's an iconic power again that folks want to use, ala 4e.

In all honesty, I'd like 90% of the instances of darkvision dropped, and tremorsense, infravision, blindsight, et al, inserted for variety.

It was more like the old design forced you to use orange hues in every painting and when you finally realize that you didn't need to force them into every piece, you're free to make a composition without relying on them for every image. Of course, you still have the option to use whatever hues...

This is what I found while attempting to homebrew a bunch of stuff. If you're trying to stat up a large number of subraces, eventually a lot of it feels completely arbitrary when you're trying to not repeat similar ASI combos. When you completely eliminate ASIs though, suddenly you're only...

The youngest player in my groups is around 35 and oldest is probably 60+. IDK about who likes anime but I have yet to see an actual "gritty, realistic" aesthetic in DnD.