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I basically never use a screen, but if I do ever want to use one, I already have the greatest innovation in DM screen technology ever, the... I believe 4th Edition?... Hackmaster GM's Screen.

True enough. Is everything being powered up a good thing though? I dislike some of these changes more than anything else I have seen so far about the 2024 rules.

Thanks, everyone- I am more stoked to pick this up than I was before reading your posts, and I was pretty stoked. It has a combination of adventures I love (Pharoah) and ones I have never read (When a Star Falls). I'm really looking forward to it now.

Someone bemoaned the loss of Mask of the Wild in this very thread. Your opinions are not universal truth.

I haven't seen any chatter about this book since it released a few days ago. Does anyone have it yet? How is it?

I really like the Tarantino films I like, which is most of them. From worst to best, of the ones I have seen, my rankings would be: 9. Death Proof (takes too long to go anywhere) 8. Reservoir Dogs (great, but it is agonizing to watch) 7. Jackie Brown (I fell asleep during it, but like scenes...

I allowed an amethyst dragonborn.

There's no hard and fast rule for this. It depends on when they find or purchase some, which depends on the risks they take. I run a pretty hardcore sandbox, so it's really up to the group.

I'd suggest that any caster not limited by a list of known spells like a sorcerer should be able to change cantrips on a long rest.

I feel like cantrips ought to be similar to other spells, where you can prep a certain number per day. Wizards ought to be able to swap them (for other cantrips in their book) every long rest. Clerics shouldn't be stuck with the same cantrip selection forever. I am a huge fan of meaningful...

I guess I would describe my attitude as "largely likes most of the individual changes, but strongly dislikes the overall power creep and sees a lot of it". I'm not just talking about improved martial pcs, which I can live with for sure, but things like almost doubling the value of healing...

I have a bunch of gargantua (D&D's kaiju) statted up as monsters. One of them in particular, the Island Shark (a shark literally big enough to eat a small island in one bite), is an epic level challenge where you have to "defeat" a bunch of its body parts (one eye, its mouth, its dorsal fin, and...

Thanks! I started reading the level titles and was like, "These are basically just the feminine version of old level titles." Then I got to the rogue. Level 1: "Wench".... YIKES!

I've never heard of this. Can you briefly summarize what it put forward?

If you read the first post in this thread, you will learn what this whole discussion is actually about. Hint: It's not accusations of sexism based on "girl dragon bad". Why? We should study everything that we want to understand. Shame is absolutely a legitimate topic. Snort. Trying to seduce...

This is a very good point. My thinking here is that you usually know if you're going to miss after a few attacks. This allows you to optimize where the battle die goes (if you can roll it after seeing your d20 roll), applying it to attacks when necessary but to other things as is convenient...

No, think of this as a replacement for things like proficiency bonus, fighting styles, increased crit ranges, battlemaster maneuvers, etc all rolled into one. This will be the basic chassis around which the fighter functions; it's not more stuff, it's (almost) all the stuff in one mechanic. I...

Responding to a couple of comments: I am assuming a ruleset with no bonus actions. (It will have reactions, and some pcs, e.g. rogues and monks, might get more than one reaction per round.) I am aware that a bonus to accuracy is better than a damage bonus. That's fine. If you roll high enough...

That's one of my internal debates right now. Classes will have 10 levels. My hope is to capture "this guy is a badass in combat" with one rule that has many applications instead of trickling out many different options over time. I may give fighters a second attack somewhere in there (maybe...

A long-running back burner project of mine is building the perfect D&D. This thread is about a concept I have for the fighter: the battle die. I'd like some feedback on it, if anyone has some to give. The idea is that every round, a fighter gets a die that they can use in various ways. It...