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They do have an art book. No stats, though.

I would argue that point. 3E was a ZILLION books, written specifically to reward game mastery, right at 2000, when geek stuff was still geek-only. And 4E did bring new players in, but not enough to counter the controversy surrounding how it was designed. It was polarizing instead of inclusive...

I absolutely did not say that. Nope, not at all. Since this has gotten really out of hand, once more, just to make it clear: Yes, players need material components, spell foci, or the pouch. If they have none of those things, then their spells are limited. That is literally in the rules. That...

There are no mechanics in the game for needing to search for them, the chance for finding them or not, the odds of your 'live' spider being alive or dead, costs, or where or how or who to get the more exotic components from. There are no charts, percentage chances, DCs, prices, or any necessity...

The material component for Gust of Wind is... beans. Message is... a copper (telephone) wire. Chain Lighting is...fur, a glass rod, and metal pins - so I assume you rub the fur against the glass until you are filled with a static charge until you touch a pin and shock yourself. The material...

It's really tempting to look at the acres of splatbooks that we bought in the early 2000's and infer too much.

Not in any order, but huge Marvel comic book movie success, great new Dr. Who / Supernatural / etc. on TV, Oodles of Twitch and YouTube streams + Critical Role + Wil Wheaton + Felicia Day, fantasy fandom being bigger and more inclusive than ever, a thriving Cosplay / convention / fantasy scene...

I don't agree that it's a necessity. Our table is run West Marches style, and we create adventure hooks for our players to choose - and develop adventures based on a 'level of risk' they've sussed out through rumor and research, and based on a certain type of scenario (like 'heist' or 'dungeon...

Xanathar's covers some of the holes though, it has a few lower-level Conjure spells for Wizards that let them be effective minion-manners at a far wider range of levels. They're only lesser and greater demons, though. Too bad they are only the equal of Druids at summoning now, instead of being...

If there's anything Wizards have always done better than every other class in every edition of D&D ever published, it's *cover the bases*. So... far fewer spells per day, no bonus spells per day from high ability scores, Concentration, reduced spell durations, save every round for almost every...

For my Druid Outlander, he plays Pan Pipes, and I chose his background's 'trinket' to be a set of bone pipes made from his first kill. He tarted it up a bit with some feathers and stuff to be a Totem. It sits around his neck. So, when he replaces a material component (which isn't always), I...

Nah, it's perfect as it is, and it puts the type of summons firmly into the flavor and domain of each type of caster. Wizard lore from the very beginning has had the notion of delving into forbidden knowledge, bargaining and extorting to play an incredibly dangerous game - with demons and...

I don't know, I think it depends on the campaign. We have a Great Old One Warlock that is fun as hell. He's using his awakened mind, high charisma, Actor's feat, disguise, and craftiness to be one of the main drivers of the campaign. Those Invocations give so much raw role playing and constant...

Yeah, it looks like we completely agree, and I misread something.

Well, to be fair, this is realistic in the real world. If you look at Langley, Virginia for example: the surveillance quality, security guard capability, and lock strength will vary greatly between a gas station, police station, and the CIA headquarters. So, a 1st level thug knocking over the...

That's the kind of nitpicky complexity that 5e did it's best to eliminate.

No, the real issue is that this is the single most ridiculous post in the thread. If you have players that do that to you regularly, I imagine they must be trolling you.

And the best Rogue skill check lets them talk to someone, or to climb a wall, or pick a pocket. Meanwhile, that Wizard transforms into a Black Dragon. Scope of a given ability is as important an axis to measure as reliability.

This has all happened before, and it will all happen again. You're repeating the exact same mista- err, design cycles that happened thirty-odd years ago during AD&D. It always happens. Game is simple and fast, and some number of people want to make it 'realistic' and add all sorts of...

Or, how about, certain types of challenges just become a non-issue after a certain level, and the DM has the creativity to find other ways to challenge the party other than 'forcing the character who relies on skills to be unreliable'? Or do we really have to have one of the world's most...