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Re logistics... I'm imagining an adventure where the PCs have tightly limited supplies and no easy way to recover them. If you run out of arrows, your bow doesn't work. Run out of food, you starve. Every day and every battle, your resources dwindle and it's a race to beat the villains before you...

Now that idea I like. If wizards had a very limited set of prepared spells -- like, fewer than a 2014 sorcerer -- but could swap them around with 1 minute of study, it would really heighten the wizard's flavor while at the same time putting reasonable limits on them. Yes, you are the king of...

Yes, the multiclass rules are still a hot mess.

None of us has those charts. Wizards doesn't publish that data. So we proles have to use the proxies available to us.

Agreed. I would like to see a lot of these invocations changed to "You have this spell effect continuously active on you. It can't be dispelled." This version is definitely headed in the right direction, just needs some more polish.

This is something they realized on the Magic: The Gathering side a while ago; I think Mark Rosewater has an article about it somewhere. Players generally try to accomplish the goal put in front of them, using whatever they believe to be the most effective means. If those means are tedious, they...

The new rule is written the way it is for a very simple and obvious reason: It allows you to create a character of any ancestry you like, without having to devise mechanics for splitting up or melding traits from the parent species (which would be a balance headache, take up extra page count...

If you don't intend to base your decision on reviews, and also have not absolutely decided one way or the other, then no accurate answer is possible and you're left with picking the least-wrong option. I wish people would stop inserting unnecessary qualifiers/explanations into poll options. It...

Cutting corners on the core of the brand, in order to hit an arbitrary release date, is what would be insane. It looks to me like a sensible strategy to maximize the total amount of development time. Get the PHB stuff squared away first, so you can release that at the tail end of 2024 and still...

@Charlaquin said this was "jumping the gun," not that it was "dumb." It was @Umbran who asserted, incorrectly, that Charlaquin was calling you dumb. You may disagree that it's jumping the gun, but maybe we could stick to what was actually said?

Out of the options given, I picked "yes" because it's closest to where I am, but that choice is not set in stone. I will buy the books unless the design takes a wild screeching turn from where it currently seems to be headed, or WotC does something like try to kill the OGL again. Of the changes...

If the answer to #2 is "no," then the answer to #1 is wrong.

4E hybrid classes.

Above all, the setting and cosmology. It's a thing of beauty, by far the best of any edition. I was very sad when 5E (which I mostly like) went back to the Great Wheel.

Rather than damage each time, I'd grant one recharge guaranteed, then roll each subsequent attempt. 10-19, you recharge normally. 2-9, your patron says no; you're done for the day. On a 20, your patron is pleased and restores hit dice equal to your level; if this takes you over your limit, roll...

I'm going to cast my vote for LeGuin and "Wizard of Earthsea," although the competition from Guy Gavriel Kay and of course Tolkien was intense. Other contenders included Stephen King's "The Gunslinger" and Barbara Hambly's "The Ladies of Mandrigyn." Hambly never gets enough credit.

The problem with that distinction is that it's applying tags across the entire game -- every single creature and class ability -- in service of a tiny handful of spells and effects (mainly dispel magic and anti-magic field) which care about distinguishing "active magic" from "background magic."...

I'm curious: What has been the impact on the quality of the paper product? That's a real question, I'm not much into the Marvel universe. I ask because of the post a few days ago on D&D sales, showing that the two editions with the most PHB sales -- 1E and 5E -- were the ones created with the...

At one point, I recall they were trying an approach where a creature's primary combat spells and spell-equivalents had the essential mechanics spelled out (heh) in the statblock, while the others were just listed off. I don't know if that's still the plan, but it seems like a good solution to...

This is a key point. D&D does not strive for realism -- it is obviously wildly unrealistic in many ways. But it does strive for "stage realism." The systems do not need to stand up to scrutiny, but they must offer a narrative that seems credible in the heat of the game. Hit points are an...