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I treat it like politics. (No, I am NOT talking specific parties here. Chill and see where I'm going with this.) Nature Clerics are the 'moderates', who live inside the city, worship in buildings, utilize all of modern technology and niceties. They see nature as one expression or facet of a...

Call me a downer, but this is a slippery slope. Druid does the math for how much Trade Goods a certain farm generates per year. 1 pound of wheat = 1 copper piece 1 bushel of wheat = 60 lbs of wheat 1 acre of wheat yields = ~50 bushels 1 mile diameter circle = 500 acres 500 acres x 50 bushels x...

This sounds like someone who wants to exploit every possible edge. Simple: the time to get good enough at that skill to increase their money by a significant margin will eat into their adventuring. Their work will look amateurish and crude next to a 100% dedicated pro, and they'll do far more...

Forget all this hand-wavey BS trying to make it make sense. It's a minor problem that slipped through the editorial process. Make the Ring of Warmth the colloquial name for the ring of Cold Resistance. Then make up similar ones for the other rings.

In ours we're trying a method to abstract time a bit. The gist: we only track time in one-month increments. During that month, a character can 'main' on one adventure, as in show up for a few sessions in a row, 'sub in' on one other for a single session to make a table full enough to keep a...

If I were to give it to a Hill giant it would be stuffed inside a raw chunk of meat. Like giving a dog a pill.

They're basically temporary buffs for skill checks, or give temporary movement types / speeds. Move: Cat: Climb 30' Elk: Move 50' Badger: Burrow 5' Constrictor Snake: Swim 30' Owl: Fly 60' Senses: Bat: Blindsight 60' Rat: Darkvision 30' Skill checks: Panther: Stealth +6, Advantage on...

This. It's painful, but it's best to do it quickly and in the open. Letting it go lets the bad feelings fester, and if that happens for too long, the table is toast.

This is fantastic!

I guess it depends on the table, and the trust. I come in with my monsters having an agenda and a strategy, and they run with it and what they'd plausibly know even if it's sub-optimal, because that feels more real. I suppress my 'AD&D expert risk averse behavior' to play believable characters...

Sounds good. Terrible meta-gaming hostile DM bullhonky. Allow me to correct it to match the first one. Or, the failure case. edit: fixed a quote

Yeah, could be. We're pretty low level with high stats (4d6 drop lowest + good rolls and decent optimizers) so it's been working out about 50/50 or slightly less. I like the later post with the DC12 and splitting it into Religion for divine spells - it seems sucky for a Divine caster to always...

Oh, sorry - misunderstood. IMO it still gimps skill characters. At a level that Wizards are teleporting all over the world, let the damn Rogue climb a wall without rolling.

I run it as: 1) If they have the spell on their spells known list, they automatically know what's being cast. 2) If they don't, they can roll an Arcana check to see if they understand it. DC 15 + spell level. 3) Sometimes the check is made at Disadvantage. For example - really noisy...

If characters that roll more 20-sided dice fail more often, then they'll be affected more often. You'd make Rogues and Fighters fail/crit all the time, Battlemasters would swing between being absolute idiots or monsters, and spellcasters that cast save-or-suck or area effect spells would be even...

100 Orcs wouldn't make a 3E mid-level party break a sweat. In 5E, even 10-15 going down per round is still going to result in a party being turned into javelin pin-cushions, swarmed and wrestled to the ground, disarmed, captured, and eaten...unless their tactics are sound, spellcasters use a TON...

Sounds like a good encounter in 6-8 a day!

There's always rolling a barrel of oil by the door, inundating the ground of the corridor around it, and lighting it on fire when they come out. Or caltrops. Or, wiring up a bunch of pots and pans with wires tied at ankle height to provide noisy alarms. The list goes on... :D

Why not just add Skill Challenges? It's a great mechanic. http://www.critical-hits.com/blog/2016/08/16/skill-challenges-in-5th-edition-dd/ The DMG has a legit 'skill fail forward' optional rule ripped off from FATE, why not add another modern mechanic?

I am pretty sure the question was asked about economics and answered in kind. If you have a problem with it, then report the question and answer to the mods. Then go to the Young Republicans or /theDonald or whevever you want to complain about the fundamental unfairness of other countries...