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When people rant for hundreds of words about how bad the game is, I wonder why they're here. -- IMO, the whole 'this race is pretty bad at this class' is truly a D&D staple from day #1. If 5E's goal was to 'feel like D&D' then it succeeded. :heh: In spite of that, the imbalance is the least...

I see where the OP is going, but how would parties know ahead of time how long the adventure is, and how many rests they can take? Doing it that way also assumes a certain strict adherence to the CR rules. What if you're in a 'sandbox' game, with a much swingier type of play? IMO I prefer the...

Theoretically I agree with Dad here. The 'limited use' is the number of spell slots available. If a spellcaster wants to burn all their 3rd level spells that way, why not? The question, is how does it play out in the game? With a dungeon delving party, does this wreck games? I haven't seen it...

This is one of the most inspiring low-level adventure ideas I've ever heard. This is like Alice in Wonderland, in D&D form. Giving XP wasn't enough. Bravo.

Tabaxi is the only class in 5E that feels 'broken' to me. It gets 1d4+STR claws, and a Dragonborn doesn't? Utterly stupid. It gets the two single most desirable skills in the game as race skills? A bit too much. The burst of speed which is as fast as an 18th level Monk, at 1st level? When the...

Hah! Good on you for owning it. I know I did the same back in the day, and far worse.

I think my first comment was actually pretty rude, in hindsight. These look excellent. I can tell you put a HELL of a lot of work in. (I'm an old print design grognard.) Tell us how they playtest...

I'm really struck by how much chaos this causes. I mean, we have a broad mix of D&D experience at our table. I started with Blue Box Basic, a couple others with 2nd edition, someone else with 4th edition Dark Sun, and several people brand new to the game. Lots of possibilities for confusion...

(Party encounters a mid-level Rogue.) "My Fighter fires an arrow at him." (Rogue uses Uncanny Dodge for half damage.) "He holds up his holy symbol and the arrow misses!" "Huh, I guess he's a Cleric! My Sorcerer fireballs the Rogue looking Cleric then." (Rogue uses Evasion) "Ok, he stands...

Why are you characterizing my position as all or nothing? I never said *always*. I think you're conflating me with other people in this thread who do the 'beer and pretzels' thing and say mechanics outright. (Not my style, but I'd be happy to play in that game if the people in the group were...

Same with the Figurine of Wondrous Power that turns into an elephant. We had a Wizard that had reincarnated into a Giant Eagle. (Yes, we play 'weird'). One of our outdoor battle tactics was for him to be flying, invisible, and dive-bomb with that in his claws - and say the code word as he...

You're rich for espousing to that point of view, when your view so far has been 'don't tell players anything because game mechanic abstraction means there is no possible way the characters can perceive any difference in anything they do'. Can you put the goalposts back where they belong after...

Two immovable rods, with chain stretched between them, inside a fog cloud to trip two Stone Giants that were chasing my very frightened Halfling down some stairs

Well, with the Dex save bonus, it'll be bloody obvious because they dodged out of the way incredibly quickly. With resistance, an experienced player will see the creature get engulfed in the flames and not look as damaged as it otherwise should. You seem to be using your argument to say that...

I like a house rules I read in these forums: the 'infinite' Wild Shape is only for animals that a Land Druid is capable of becoming. So, all utility and movement and stealth all the time, but Moon Druids only gets their 'two combat shapes' per short rest just like before on top of that...

Champion Fighters, Sorcerers, Monks. Never seen one of them played.

That's always been the issue IMO. A fantasy world game setting accessible enough to attract a lot of gamers is really generic. D&D is derivative of LOTR, Conan, and all the other stuff that people are bought into. The best fantasy movies with original settings are weird. Labrynth, Pan's...

When it really comes down to it, we did every single bit of that stuff on one piece of graph paper. If you can track Wizard 'spell recovery' after a short rest, you can put a hash mark in the column marked 'rations'. It's not a big deal. And it becoming an issue or not depends how well people...

I hope the guild's top psionicist has a name that's some anagram of Bester or Alfred Bester if you want to be truly legit

He meant 'Psi Corps', as in a military organization of psionic soldiers. ;)