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Having thought about this a little more, it strikes me that it is true that D&D has some gamist elements that are there just because we're used to them. Hit points, however, are an example of something a bit different. Hit points are gamist and bad, but there's not really anything better that...

You raise some valid points, but the statement I quoted above seems only valid if you restrict the shield shove to a target you've already hit (or missed) with an attack on that round. That restriction doesn't exist. As I pointed out in the post to which you replied, you can (even according to...

You raise some valid points, but the statement I quoted above seems only valid if you restrict the shield shove to a target you've already hit (or missed) with an attack on that round. That restriction doesn't exist. As I pointed out in the post to which you replied, you can (even according to...

Mearls' recent LYSK on Greyhawk included him saying that he would like to publish a Greyhawk product, but that he doesn't know how to approach it. He said that he might approach the Gygax kids at Garycon to see if they had any ideas. My guess is that he would like to work with Luke to put...

Respectfully, I think it is fair. She dismissed Greyhawk as a "vintage" setting, in contrast to the Forgotten Realms which Ed began publishing in Dragon in 1979, and which had it's big "Gray Box" release in 1987. Greyhawk was originally published in 1980, and updated as part of the "Living...

Those comments can be summed up as "I don't know much at all about Greyhawk, but I don't really care because the Forgotten Realms is just much more popular." Well, no [excrement], Kate. Maybe if your team gave other D&D settings as much support as you've given to a setting from Magic the Card...

I think most designers building rules that are easy for new players to understand try to keep in mind that while the game might not be emulating a fantasy world, it is modelling it. Thus, trying to have your rules make sense and carry a level of verisimilitude helps the new player get into...

I think most designers building rules that are easy for new players to understand try to keep in mind that while the game might not be emulating a fantasy world, it is modelling it. Thus, trying to have your rules make sense and carry a level of verisimilitude helps the new player get into...

To be clear, I see plenty of people like me represented in the hobby. I mean, Mike Mearls, Chris Perkins, and even that young fellow Jeremy Crawford all have some miles on the odometer. I just think that "gamers of a certain age" have a sense of humor that is perhaps generational, or...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary middle age is between 45 and 65. I'd like to see a show with some of those folks. I might be the only one, but it's what I'd like to see.

I think you perhaps misunderstand. We all know what Crawford said, we've all read the new Sage Advice and most of us have probably watched the videos on YouTube. The point is that some of us are of the opinion that Jeremy is wrong, that his new "ruling" goes beyond simply interpreting the rules...

I think you perhaps misunderstand. We all know what Crawford said, we've all read the new Sage Advice and most of us have probably watched the videos on YouTube. The point is that some of us are of the opinion that Jeremy is wrong, that his new "ruling" goes beyond simply interpreting the rules...

And I'm old.

I see no reason to think that a cantrip is any faster than any other 1 action spell. I wouldn't let a bonus action spell be interrupted, but I have no qualms about a 1 action cantrip.

I have no real experience with it, as none of my players have taken that style. One thing you might consider if you find that multiattack is rendering the style obsolete is to combine it with the Mark option from the Combat Options section of Chapter 9 of the DMG. You could let the Fighter...

Actually episode 1 was always free over on the G&S page, but now the whole show is (hopefully) coming to YouTube since their subscription channel has been shuttered. I watched that 1st episode when it came out, and I enjoyed it, but I was unwilling to subscribe to another channel to get another...

I hope to see Mike and the Happy Fun Hour back soon. That and the LYSK videos are about the only thing I find useful on the D&D channel.

Why would anyone disarm as a readied action when he could just do that on his turn and pick up the disarmed implement? Perhaps once, when a special occasion calls for it, but as a general practice way of dealing with spellcasters it makes no sense at all. I'm still in favor of the concentration...

Hanging laundry out to dry in the sun, or putting baked goods on the windowsill to cool in the sunlight, might have devotional connotations for a sun worshiping society. A society that venerates the sky might collect rainwater for ritual cleansing. Perhaps it is sacrilege to wear shoes on soil...

Well, Disarm has been a published rule since the DMG came out, and there is no shortage of ways a caster can lock down a fighter. I'm still not seeing this as any kind of unbalanced caster nerf. To lose the spell, the fighter in my analysis would have to recognise that a spell was being cast...