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Well I can totally get behind that. I'd love an easy way to tell how to convert and compare the relative power of statblocks. Makes it easier to have true monster characters.

Jumping in just to say that the thing that never makes sense for me with this kind of setup, is not how to determine the power of an average PC, but how to define what a "challenge" is for such a PC. Let Mr clarify exactly what I mean. "Level 5 Monster = Level 5 PC" is never what is meant...

I do it exactly the same way. It makes most of the numbers in the books make the most sense with 1 gp = $100 USD.

If my favorite spell, plane shift, doesn't exist, it's not D&D to me.

Makes sense. Two important points to consider. Eldritch Knight is not a 5e analog of the AD&D fighter/mage. It utterly fails at that due to it being limited to low level spells. (Because neither the Eldritch Knight nor the Bladesinger really hit that spot for me I made my own Warrior-Mage...

What is it that you dislike about the Eldritch Knight? I don't see how it could be considered weak, as War Magic (with booming blade or green-flame blade) gives it potentially the highest at-will damage of the PHB fighters at many levels, and its spell choice can enhance it in a variety of...

The reason I'm not a huge fan of that original multiverse version (I much prefer the 2e/Planes cape take) is because I have a hard time seeing how such a conceptually expansive Prime Material Plane can share the same other planes. One Plane of Elemental Fire for all of that? All that...

I wouldn't put much weight on the lack of errata. If you look at the urban encounters table it's a 2d10 roll, which means the results skew towards the middle of the table, unlike with 1d20. But the table results are just in alphabetical order, indicating it was clearly not arranged to be...

When it was first coming up in our group on a VTT, I was trying to figure out how to run it on the medium. Since the VTT shows you the roll total rather than just the die, you already know if shield is going to work and be needed before you cast it. I really didn't think that is how it was...

That's how I do it. Who knows what's going to happen during the session until it's done.

I had to stop reading and comment on this. There is no need to make new characters and justify anything with a soft reboot, unless thats's what the players want to do. I'd just rewind to before the DM took out their personal issues on the PCs and start the campaign right there with them all...

I really like the wizard art in the 2014 PHB. Something about the character and the color saturation just really works for me. This one is okay too as an action piece (maybe casting a wish or something?)

Aren't the names of allied combatants in a different color than hostile ones, or was that added in a later game?

I reloaded every time a level drain happened (or a character died). I earned those XP and I was not about to let the monsters take them from me. Take my hp, take my spell slots, take my arrows! But leave my XP ALONE!

It's worth noting that paladins also have detect good and evil on their spell list, which has similar functionality and a 10 minute duration. So Divine Sense is sort of intended to be extra uses of an instantaneous burst capability, while they can use the spell for a more ongoing investigation...

These were both some of my early formative computer game experiences, and my early formative D&D experiences! Recently, I started playing Fell Blade: Arbiter's Mark, which is inspired by Final Fantasy Tactics (which I never played but hear is good). When I first started I played on the Beginner...

If you go with actual PHB, to add to the 5e options, 1e gave you assassin, and 4e gave you warlord, and that's all that isn't in 5e unless you count illusionist. If you go beyond and include expansions (only 4e really add split it's PHB classes over multiple books, 3e had a "PHB 2" but it was...

Agreed. Also, one of the things that strikes me about design-by-committee is that there are better and worse ways of doing it. For instance, I think those elements were generally a boon to the original 5e design (even if I wouldn't have chosen every single outcome myself) because of how they...

Only one of our party members died in it, and he basically died saving my character in the last fight. (It's okay though, he got better.) My character ended up with a lingering knee scar he still hasn't gotten take care of though.

It seems poorly written. The intent is likely that they can take that action again to turn back. That isn't the only place such things are overlooked. The warlock's One With Shadows invocation doesn't let you take the Hide action to hide once you are invisible. Saying that you "can't take...