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The conjure X spells are really different, more a zone of effect than a summoning a creature, really. Probably simpler than having player adding extra creatures to a fight, but a zone of damage quite different than having a unicorn figthing at your side. The new True Strike and Shillelagh are...

About the spells given for ''free'': - Does it only include SRD and already-bought spells that received and update or does it include the new spells (arcane vigor, starry wisp etc) ?

Its pretty rare, but there's a few cases of ''X damage is reduced by Y flat number on a hit'' in the game. Gaining double the resistance could grant that, like ''You gain resistance to Fire. If you already have resistance to Fire, instead any Fire damage dealt to you by that attack is reduced by...

Hallucinary Terrain is pretty good to put a fake poisonous bog, tar pit, sinking sands or wild fire zone to act a as deterrent. You know, an element of danger your players won't want to interact with to disbelieve it.

yeah, let's be honest, much of the changes we've seen so far for 2024 could have been variant rules added in a ''of everything'' book, much like they did with the ranger and sorcerer. At-most, the new classes have what, 3-4 features changed from their 2014 incarnations? Having a variant classes...

One thing I've noticed in 2024 is the action economy being filled by most characters: in 2014 (without feat, at least), you did not have much Bonus or Reaction actions. 2024, much like 4e (after a few years into the edition), have much more options to use all those Action/Minor Action/Reaction...

To avoid the swing-iness of the d20 on opposed checks in 5e2014, I tend to houserule grapples as an opposed unarmed attack: everybody is proficient in it, you cant Expertise it, your monks are still good at grappling even with low str.

In my games I keep Concentration, but give no limit to how many of those you can have at the same time. You make a different check for each effect you are maintaining. The DC increases by +1 for each spell over 1 you maintain. (I'm also really cruel when it comes to thing that trigger a...

I wont buy because I feel I can offer better original custom content suited to my group than WotC by building on the chassis of 5e.

It's pretty weird ( but not surprising ) to see them toss aside loved canonical elements created by other contributors when they are super protective of their DL one true way.

Yeah, I know...its all in my head, I'll probably get over it someday (I just noticed it, like, 4 days ago :P )

I used to reference my Veins of the Earth sourcebook a lot for everything ''underdark'' related, but since it was made in collaboration with Zak S. (never noticed before), it now gather dust of my shelves :( I also steal an indecent amount of ideas from videogame RPGs, mainly Final Fantasy and...

You are exactly in the same position I am, for mostly the same reasons. Some publishers are suposed to come up with SRD 5.1 adjacent product: ToV -> Not seeing much improvement over regular 5.1. C7D20 -> Will probably be really cool....once they get to it... Nimble 5e -> Looks mostly like a...

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D&D: Enhanced Edition D&D: GOTY Edition D&D: Definitive Edition not bad

This. Invisible means Invisible, Blind means Blind. If all conditions do is give yet-another instance of non-stacking Disadvantage, no wonder people focus on whittling the enemies HP to 0 instead of going for debuffs. Why would I was a 2nd level spellslot to blind a target when a cantrip...

I'll call it 5e Rule Cyclopedia: is a gathering of a bunch of previously released variant rules and additions, some from supplements, some from the their own D&D Next playtest (re-reading the playtest packets, you see their some ideas in there that did not make the cut for 2014 but somehow are...

I wish they did a fantasy version of Modern AGE for class-less fantasy gaming! I could probably mush the two of them together: Use M-AGE character building with F-AGE Talents and Foci. Maybe if I workshop monster stablock as their own thing (ala D&D) instead of building them from the same...

Looks good, my only reluctance is this part of the KS: ''if we reach $12,500 pledged, we will include an appendix (or AppendACKS as we like to call it) that will provide a conversion for all of the encounters, dungeons, treasures, magic items, and new monsters included in The Shucked Oyster...

My group quite liked it a few years ago. When I introduced them to "D&D" (read: TTRPG) I started them with Beyond the Wall and F-AGE. Turns were very slow, because adding 3 dice and checking for Stunt requires being a rocket scientist, if you'd believe my players :P My main problem with AGE is...