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Definitely, I will often read digital copies as well. Often the digital copies are around the same cost as the physical book from a secondhand store and they have the benefit of being downloaded directly. Kind of a shame though, I have an easier time browsing book stores than digital stores.

I do enjoy going back and reading Conan stories, they're short enough that they tend to be an afternoon read and some of them really seem to have influenced early DnD adventure creation, Queen of the Black Coast reads like a dnd adventure where you explore a lost ruin. Yeah, though in reality...

It's one of the reasons why in 3e a running joke was "friends don't let friends specialise in evocation". The hit point bloat was so high that it made damaging spells less useful than pre-3e.

I think one of the best ways to limit prestige classes is to go back to the old 3e meaning of the term and tie them into an actual organisation rather than just something you're capable of picking up whenever you have the requirements met. Can't be an assassin without joining an assassin's...

I haven't looked at player classes, but for DMs, monsters and NPCs can be simplified a bit. I made some notes around doing that ages ago and have been trying to find them. Essentially though, monsters can be made a little like other editions instead of going through the entire build and adding...

It's probably more for adventure league (I'm assuming that's still happening) and probably an ask your dm for home games.

Maybe wealth and things to spend money on needs to be determined at the start of the campaign. If players aren't interested in anything but small adventures or single on-going adventure path with little downtime then it might be a little harder. If the party is asked for long-term goals then...

I recall from planescape torment there was green steel that allowed you to overcome damage resistance (maybe it was treated as a +1 weapon but without the bonus), it was mined in the lower planes so the various foot soldiers were likely equipped with it, though maybe more for the mercenaries...

I don't hate it, but I still prefer the older versions.

I remember old dragon magazines mentioning this (though it was for NPCs) advancing by gaining xp but it was very slow, you need that practical application that comes through firled work (ie, adventuring) to really get the best experience. I don't think it's a bad idea, and could be used when you...

I'm a lot more basic with my herbalism in dnd. I have common, uncommon, and rare herbs for most things and then maybe a few uniques (things like black lotus, which probably doesn't count as a herb but is used in a similar way). Been a while, but I think that 10 common hebs were able to make the...

I put no restrictions on it in my games. If someone wanted to pick up 1 level of every class they can do that. I'd like there to be story reasons but I don't enforce story readings for multiclassing.

My post was talking about base classes, not subclasses.

From memory it was a good system, you didn't even bother rolling for incidental stuff and you maybe dropped a rank if you had to make a big purchase which differed depending on your wealth rank.

In games I've been in, I guess it still mattered, but we used it for bribes or to cover costs for things. I never really cared about it because I didn't have much else to spend it on so basically just threw it at problems.

Yeah, I've always felt that if you have a paladin on your team, you're making the save. Positioning can affect that but if you're in the aura, you'll be fine.

That sounds cool as it made the fighter someone to be feared as they're literally indomitable. Fits with the super heroics of 5e.

Given that 1e fighters likely had plenty of magic bonuses to their saves (from magic armour or rings), that 20th level fighter was probably only failing on a roll of 1.

I think the main reason why people jumped on the one roll for all the missiles was partially (mostly?) about the invoker adding their Int bonus to the damage for all the missiles with empowered evocation. A 20 Intelligence wizard dealing 7-10 damage per missile instead of 2-5 is fairly impressive.

I ran some thunder rift modules in 5e, tended to just use a 1 to 1 conversion between editions and just used some other stats that were similar in the old dnd modules to other creatures. For instance the newts in knight of newts became goblins, the water elemental remained a water elemental. I...