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IIRC, it's more that iterative attacks are significantly penalized. So you're giving up an attack that will probably miss for some extra defense.

I wasn't aware of that. The version I used had everyone roll initiative, with the highest roll given first initiative. It may have been the campaign. I don't remember exactly anymore. I think one of the players wanted to have the Alertness feat (variant human), and another wanted to play a bard...

I tried it but my group didn't really take to it. They felt it undermined the value of initiative bonuses (since only the highest initiative roll matters). What I've been using lately, and which has been well received, is a system I believe I came across on these forums (I'd love to attribute...

A mechanic that recently caught my eye is Fabula Ultima's ability checks (which I believe are originally from Ryutama). Essentially, your ability scores are a die between d6 and d12. When rolling a check, it's based on two ability scores (or you can use the die from the same stat twice if only...

Sending Stones would work fine for the communication part. As for the teleportation, if the party could somehow get you an associated object from their location, that would work. However, I don't have any ideas on how that could be accomplished. The simulacrum could use teleportation circle to...

I haven't had a chance to read through much of the thread, but IMO it's a matter of degree. Having a 5% chance that my character chokes to death on a bread roll every time he has to eat is unnecessary randomness that harms, rather than enhances, the experience. If my expert sharpshooter...

I voted no. I don't think the issue (assuming that an issue exists) is with Healing Word. My recommendation would be that if you want to eliminate whack-a-mole, then just do that. House rule that a character at zero HP who receives healing doesn't auto-magically regain consciousness. (Maybe...

Now it's back to business as usual. I'll continue buying D&D products as well as other RPGs. I look forward to seeing what's produced under ORC, although whether I make any purchases will depend on how appealing I find those products. I'll most likely go see the movie. I'll probably make a new...

Hard to say. I was quite surprised to hear from from my wife the other day, that some of our friends (who only started playing RPGs/5e a few months ago) had not only heard about it, but were apparently quite angry about what WotC was doing. Given how recently they started playing, I wouldn't...

Why not both? Push back against what WotC is trying to do, and also support efforts like the ORC.

He's actually done a Mythos RPG called Silent Legions.

YMMV, but I see a different moral. Greed is bad. And potentially self-defeating. I think that D&D getting big did increase the risk of it being managed in the interests of greed, but I also think that was a risk that would approach but never actually reach 100%. Had it been managed by people...

I had no issues with OneDND. I was cautiously optimistic about the VTT, and quite optimistic about 5.5. Whether or not I adopted the VTT, if you had asked me in December whether I would buy and play 5.5, I would have said it was all but guaranteed. Sadly, after the OGL debacle, that's no longer...

Yeah, I've allowed plenty of player facing options over the years (albeit, only after careful consideration and sometimes a balance rewrite). I also use plenty of DM facing options. For my current campaign, I've been using A5E's Monstrous Menagerie instead of the Monster Manual, because I...

I would agree with a lot of the other posters. Some factors I haven't seen discussed much: System mastery applied to both sides of the table. A DM with strong system mastery of the system could create encounters that could absolutely steamroll any non-optimized party, without ever straying...

Something to consider is that, assuming that the players suspect there's a teleportation circle in a certain vicinity that they want to go to (say the fortress of the BBEG, or the lost library of McGuffin) then rather than trying to discover the sigils for the circle, they could attempt a brute...

Well, the player could choose to dance however their character would, in which case it would be RP. That really applies to almost anything in game beyond rolling dice without any description. If we're RPing a conversation with an NPC, I can choose to say what I think would get the NPC to do...

Alternate-universe level dependency, perhaps. As I said, the player opted to have an actual dance off with the DM, rather than rolling, so it was effectively level independent. Though it would have admittedly been level dependent had we opted to roll.

One of my DMs once had a skeleton challenge the party to a dance off. The DM gave us the option to either resolve it as a series of checks, or to have an actual dance off between the DM and one of the players. One of the guys opted to have an actual dance off. That same DM came up with a mini...

Like I said in another response, my PHB does not have the line designated as 2 under Polymorph, only for True Polymorph. It's possible that it was errata'd, but I was going off of what's printed in my copy. I already stated that in the case of True Polymorph, you would gain access to the...