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I feel saying that because WotC turns one way - let's say towards milestones - that everyone else tends to turn that way is a gross oversimplification. If that were the case, there would be even less of a market for other systems. Other systems, including OSR, come about because a community...

I like it. It doesn't seem to be any different than 3.x with DR 5/silver or DR 10/magic.

As someone who, in 3.x, fell behind fairly rapidly because of massive item creation, XP imbalance can be bad. It was worse in my situation where I was outfitting one guy who had to pull the whole party (2 PCs, 1 DM, no cups ;) ) I get the want for XP. It's handy. But I feel gaming systems...

EDIT: To be a little less JMS for a moment... I can still sort of recall those days. I remember feeling the system was strange, and weird, but really... amazing and simple. It went through a 'simple-hard-simple' phase cycle between our play time with it. It felt like no matter what, this was...

We were there, at the dawn of the Third Age of... D&D.

Makes sense. Speaking of Seattle, I could use some Piroshky Piroshky, but I'm in east Tennessee. Blah.

It sounds like, to me, Starbucks then is the Seattle version of the way Australians feel about Fosters. My understanding is No True Aussie drinks the oil can of it.

I suspect this is yet another reason the DMG has a magic item distribution tracker SPECIFICALLY in there - to make sure martials aren't falling behind. To me, it seems there's a lot of pearl-clutching for the poor single classed fighter in What If scenarios... meanwhile, many posts about...

Do we know that for certain? I've not read the DMG and I'd be curious to see where it is, so feel free to quote. What they specify in the PHB pg 28 (2024) is that IF you had Resist Necromancy and Resist All Damage, it only counts once. Damage is halved, not quartered. I have no problem with...

Actually, from the same article I quoted previously, I would assume PSB resistances still exist because of this text on Deflect Attacks: Deflect Attacks — Level 3 Formerly Deflect Missiles, as the name might suggest, Deflect Attacks now has much more usability. No longer limited to Ranged...

I only did a quick google, because I didn't want to run down to my car, but... if what I saw online for 6th level monks is correct, it's not that their blows aren't magical - Empowered Strikes lets the monk choose to do either Force damage or their normal damage type. Force damage would bypass...

I'm sure it's already been mentioned, but I was glad to see that it specificially says you can only take a long rest every sixteen hours. I'm sure 2014 might have said that, but I don't know anyone that did it here. It was like alpha, long rest, alpha, long rest... ymmv

For me, I feel I have a decent system mastery of the games I play. I personally don't enjoy min maxing. I will, for instance, if the game is set up as some kind of survival/no punches pulled scenario, but even then, I play a support role. I don't mean a cleric, for example, but rather I fill...

If only we see Bolo from Aeor try to get her drinks from 'these bags' <points at automatons>

Side note: one thing I noticed in the 24 PHB that I'm not sure I saw in 2014, and I'm sure I didn't see used at tables I was at, was the clarification that you can only take a long rest once every 16 hours. No alpha strike, sleep for eight hours, alpha strike, sleep for eight hours. That...

I default to something game designer John Wick said, and I believe: When people talk about 'game balance', really what it seems they're talking about is 'equal spotlight'. In my experiences, it's not that players are concerned that the thief does X more damage always, as much as they want...

This. Given his experience, would it be fair for him to give reviews and opinions on 5e if the book he skipped was the Player's Handbook? Clearly he's gamed a long time, so if the defense is he doesn't need to read the DMG, then clearly he doesn't need to have read the Player's Handbook...

Yes, but if you're going to talk on a system, shouldn't you have at least read 1/3 of the system books? Would you trust someone reviewing the Star Wars original trilogy, only to find out they didn't even watch Empire Strikes Back? They're not really reviewing the whole system, or series...

Greyhawk maps will always be my favorite. I think it's nostalgia, which to quote Judge John Hodgman, is our most toxic impulse.

I agree with your point about newer players and evolving views, but there is a very large amount of content creators that players and viewers take as the final word on the subject, to the point that their insight on DPR and theorycrafting your character is considered the be-all end-all. To...