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My entire first two paragraphs are directly related to your quote, which is why I quoted you. I want to know what builds your players are becuase you are making claims they got to level 15 just fine and therefore arguing that healing is not needed in 5e because of it. I happen to largely agree...

I would also like to know what their exact builds are as well. I'd argue a group with a Life Cleric or any other healing focused subclass is at a serious detriment in keeping up with groups who do not such a character if they do not use any healing (magical or otherwise) in combat. You can have...

So my only thoughts from a mechanical standpoint: 1) Consider implementing house rules for more advanced medical technology, mundane healing and frankly technology in general. Crafting will certainly be a big part of this. Even if you are trying to simulate a "historically accurate" medieval...

So when a daddy/momma fiend and a human love each other very much...

The thing is, the only time I've ever had to employ those tactics is whenever a player decides to roll a character that is heavily optimized or min/maxed, and honestly even then I often find the martial characters to be the more frustrating if optimized. At least the archmage can counter a...

As Zio said, a lot has changed with it, though the core of the program is still the same as it's always been. I do recommend anyone who wishes to try it to seok out the d&d 5e framework someone made for it, as well as looking up how to make a quick damage/healing macro and it's pretty much good...

I use MapTools because it's free, I've been using it on and off for nearly a decade (obligatorily shakes cane and tells the younger VTT kids to get off his lawn), I'm too cheap to spending any money on a program, and I'm only using really heavily using digital maps because I've no other choice...

I have a player in my Dragon Heist game that is basically playing a homebrewed version of the Dhampir now (we used half-elf as a base). He went shadow sorcerer and I gave him some vampire related facials as sort of a "magic item". His backstory is that he's the son of a Dread Lord of shadow fell...

Precisely this. The problem isn't the paladin or the artificer, it because their DM was foolish enough to use rolled states for their game in the first place, and then expect any sort of balancing to be possible after. Rolling stats is not balanced by design.

Not only did we incorporate all of them, we also have incorporated some of the class features that didn't make the official cut, with about 3 of our players declaring they will officially riot if not allowed to use the spell swapping feature for sorcerer/bard/warlock and the other learned casters.

There are no actual house rules in 5e that I would label as required, which is saying a lot about the system as a whole compared to previous editions. That said, there are a few things I would likely never run a game without using: 1) Feats and giving players a starting feat at 1st level. They...

"Aw, you did miss me!" When she is hit in combat: "groans Harder!" "You know, they say each of our kind falls in love with only one person, I think it might be you..." (she needs to say this to quite a few people)

So a player in my game was playing a character heavily based on Number 5, and we as part of it needed a bunch of NPCs that were the rest of the siblings. His backstory was that he was from Waterdeep and was one of the minor noble families that was into tinkering and making mechanical objects...

See this: I despise class features that encourage minmaxing and multiclassing and the single greatest thing from 5e in my opinion other than bounded accuracy is the trade off of multiclassing in this edition. I accept that cantrips are a necessary evil but I do NOT like that one can take 3...

I've another gripe related to a lot of the new mechanics in general. If they were so worried about power creep, why the hell did they make a bunch of mechanics that scale off proficiency modifier? It's just asking people to multi class and create that very problem?! This is true, though it...

Definitely true, though it would be nice to see an archetype for every different toolset for the artificer (i.e. magic chef, some sort of magic gaming set on, a painter, etc), due to all of the current archetypes having abilities That sort of force them to use the expected tool. I'd probably...

I'm thinking that might be what I end up making the 7th level ability if I end up doing a complete redesign. Seems appropriate for around that level, and it would mean less stuff competing for your reactions. And yes, that cloud rune might as well be a straight copy of the fey warlock 6th level...

If anything, the giants for feeling like they don't work together is just further issues on WotC's part, particularly when they have several written adventures prominently featuring Giants already in both this edition and previous ones. I'm gonna brainstorm on it this weekend and see what we...

My problem with the archetype is two issues: First, with only 6 runes to pick from, I cannot help but think that levelgating two of them is a bad idea without adding more rune options. Having played the UA version for quite a bit now, I can definitely agree that while it is powerful, that "slow...

Just remember the age old rule: the amount of money or time spend on a miniature for your character is inversely proportional to the amount of time your character shall stay alive. Just like the more expensive and better your dice look the lower they shall roll.