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I don't think I'd even bother with backgrounds in 2024, just give players the mechanical benefits they want from the available options.

This is a cheat sheet I did for my players, I didn't mention the wild die, maybe I should have but at the time I was probably just going to explain that to them. It has most of the more peetinent information for the short session I had planned (technically still have planned, scheduling sucks...

I've not heard of it, but based on what you've said, it seems like you've got the basics down. If just wanting to use it in game, I think you've got the basics, anything more and I can't help, sorry.

There are enough psionic add-ons that you could run darksun as well, I think, I'm considering porting over the stars without number psionics rules (or at least the old version of the rules, they seem to have changed since the last time I downloaded the game). There's also PX1 psionics for BX...

Which is fine, I'm not against rolling in the open, when I DM, I tend to roll in the open. The thing I find weird is not trusting your DM/friend to roll behind the screen.

And had I also been talking about those people then it would be a dishonest framing of what people have said, but I've literally only been talking about the ones who don't trust their DMs to roll behind a screen. It's like I'm talking about waffles and you somehow think I'm misrepresenting pancakes.

And that is what I find weird. I trust my friends, they can roll behind a screen if they want and I have no issues with that.

Whereas I consider it as just them wanting to roll behind a screen. Maybe you've played with a bunch of randos over the years that have burnt you, but I tend to play with friends, and I tend to trust those friends. Hasn't steered me wrong so far.

It isn't unlimited trust, there's nothing wrong with thinking that the NPC the DM is currently running isn't up to something; it's entirely different to want the DM to roll in the open because you don't trust that they're being honest with the dice rolls.

Just because they might also DM doesn't make it less weird that they don't trust their DM.

I find it weird how so many people don't trust their DM.

I don't really care if the DM rolls in the open. I haven't rolled behind a screen in years and one of my current DMs doesn't either. I used to, and it allowed me to fudge things a bit (generally in the PCs favour, sort of balancing an over powered encounter), but I no longer feel the need...

This is definitely one of the things I don't like about 5e, it drives people to get that 20 ability score as soon as they can when there are often more interesting (ie, feats) things to get. One of the things i liked about 3e and earlier is that a warrior advanced in combat skill faster than...

My gods are pretty damn powerful, but not all powerful. They belong to a race of immortals, a celestial race from the upper planes of exisitence. They gained true godhead when they seized the pillars of creation and ascended. They don't know everything, but they do know a lot, mostly due to a...

I'm just curious, how much more detailed are these rules in 5.5 when compared with 5e? I'm wondering if they've actually expanded on them.

I keep seeing NPC Decepticons...

I once had a trickster who disguised himself as a captive that the players rescued, I unfortunately called him by his name or title and realised what I'd done when one of my players went "wait, who?". I had to quickly teleport him away but I was planning on have the inevitable betrayal in the...

Took a while for me to find (I should have gone straight to the index), but this is what the Rules Cyclopedia has to say about casting spells and being interrupted: The character must be able to gesture and speak normally to cast a spell. While casting a spell, the character must remain in one...

I like how much simpler it is to create a character, rules are typically simpler, monsters easier to run. I also have a lot of older material from 2e and becmi that I can easily run. 5e isn't exactly difficult, but I just find the older editions easier.