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:D I'd call it a do-over of 3E, 'knowing what we know now, let's not to THAT again', with as many good ideas from 4E that they could get away with, and a bunch of fan service tacked on top. Yep, but it also did it in a way that's growing the fan base again. Which I would have never believed...

Yeah, looking again, I misread it. Ignore the parts about bounded accuracy. My bad. This is what I reacted to (and went off on a wrong tangent): The whole 'skills start at -2' and spending those points in such an open way at creation is what triggered that. It's a very 3E mechanic. Nothing in...

If your table is all 3E/PF savvy, it'll be fine, and everything I say is not relevant because those types of players enjoy the system mastery mini-game, but I know it would make skills opaque and inaccessible to all the new players at my current table. But, I have a critique if you're open to...

You're not wrong, but they care very much about you. I watched the designers give a talk. They worked really hard to build a D&D that 'felt' right, was easy to learn, streamlined, didn't penalize casuals with overt system mastery or trap options, added call-outs to each edition, etcetera. Even...

So a Wish or Meteor Swarm or Power Word Kill is worth 9 sets of non-magical plate armor? Why would anyone make plate armor with those prices?

They have beaten crafting nearly to death with a nerf bat. What you said about Wizards is one of the reasons why. That stuff is great for power gaming munchkins, but bad for the rest of the game. So now the game supports only the lowest-level crafting, i.e. healing potions and the like. It's...

Yeah, we did similarly - with the exception of doing better against the goblins due to talking the Kobolds into lending us a few warriors, and taking Belak down quickly with stealth and focus fire rather than hitting the tree. We learned the secret of the twig blights, and will take the two...

We have a Google Docs and everyone uploads editable PDFs.

...and as they move, promptly get smacked by the Fighter's AoO. Win/win! I tend more towards 'rule of cool' too, so I'm very lenient with Sneak Attack, but to get Advantage on consecutive rounds, there needs to be enough cover where the Rogue can come from another angle from the one they took...

Yeah, I wish they'd have given the Rogue another language, and Thieves' Cant was one one of the options. I think it makes sense that the class was either extremely well-versed in an urban context, or due to their nature as deceivers and bluffers, had enough social contact and practice to pick up...

That's definitely a thing in Adventure League, but my DM has been really cool about tweaking things like that. I'm considering that for my Druid - so he can drop two levels in Rogue to become the ultimate forest survivalist - and he'll give me the choice of changing Thieves' Tools to the...

Look, this is nuanced, and all-or-nothing analogies don't do anything but muddy the waters. It has both, but really - which has more power to determine the outcome? The dice or the story? I'd say in FATE, Apocalypse World, Polaris, etcetera - true story games - when dice are used, they are not...

Thanks, I do enjoy D&D. Enjoy your 'mother may I' derivative at yours. :)

Occasionally uses dice and rules? Haha. It's the exact opposite in D&D. D&D has a very crunchy, rules-driven system. One of the most. Certainly the most complex compared to systems being made now like Fate, Apocalypse World, Reign, and Gumshoe. Dice resolve all conflicts. The only time a DM...

If it were a story, it would be decided by an author. A game is decided by dice. It's a game. The story in D&D is an outcome of a game arbitrated by dice. So, you try to do a thing, the dice say if you do it or not, you tell the story about the outcome. 'He died horribly in an avalanche...

Hah. Our party did, and now we're traveling around telling the local towns to burn all the saplings from the trees planted from those apples. Did that party figure that out? Or are twig blights now a permanent problem near the Citadel?

it's not that amazing of a dungeon, but it was a good primer for a bunch of new players in our group. It taught the fundamentals of role playing like bargaining between hostile groups that are both big enough to slaughter you if you're not careful, letting the bad guy talk (lol Belak is a...

We're discussing this in my game now. Three of us share DMing, and the DM that started the game had critical failures for combat. My take is either spellcasters risk a crit with every spell - they roll d20 no matter what they do, and a 1 means something bad or embarrassing - or we eliminate...

But Traveler was so damn fun. 'Oh this one is looking good. Oh, that's great. Oh...died. Gotta start over' My favorite was the one who rolled Jack of All Trades 6... in a system that gets 2, maybe 3 max. I could basically fake my way through anything short of open heart surgery. Good times...

Let's be honest here. I know people that really fight. They don't talk like this - you're using an adolescent power fantasy tough guy cliché straight from anime. If you've ever punched anyone in your life, I'd bet money it's been calculated - only when you know you can do it without any...