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Thanks for the reply, I was not thinking of 4E support so much as 4E style formatting for the 5E character sheet. Such as if I make a Wizard can I generate a PDF/paper copy of that guy using the 5E PHB character sheet only or could I instead get a 'card' for each spell they know or activated...

Yes, that is the purpose. (and sometimes to surprise players who treat them with lazy disregard) And that is the reason that the Fighter can outshine the Barb in some circumstances, they still have resources after those 'meaningless' fights. If you remove them then you have weakened classes...

I agree that the simplification is good. I DMd 4e for years with a very tactical group but I still only ended up using a few powers to any particular effect from a particular monster. A lot of them were just filler, a different name for the same 3d8 burst weapon or multiattack. And numerous...

I let players chose from 4d6 drop 1 assign, point buy, 6x6 array of 4d6 drop 1 used in order. For the rolled ones I require a little fudging; no total bonus greater than +10 to avoid having one PC who is great at everything. So far none have chosen point buy and they have been quite lucky...

Sounding better and better Hobo. Out of curiosity, will there be any options for how character data is output in the initial or later releases? Will it be the standard 5e character sheet? I'm thinking about some of my newer players who started with 4e and would respond well to a similar...

I'd also let a PC bard pick Voice as one of their tool proficiency. I could see a warrior skald of the valor college booming out war chants while stabbing.

Totally, I see more 4e in it than any other version mechanically. And <3 fluff wise. I have been reading old modules and Dungeon etc. thinking about what to resurrect and run in 5e and I feel like the pre-4 adventures might not be a great match mechanically because they rarely focus on workday...

Yes yes, dwarf wizards, cleric wizards ok. All very clever. Is the game broken? Does not sound like it. Exactly how much more powerful is a Wiz 19/Cler 1 than a Cler 20? Or how do they match up at a level that people actually play? It seems like what has been accomplished is you have gained...

I'd rule that you need to play one of your instruments to eschew material components and that includes the somatic as well. That means you can't have a weapon out in most cases but I don't think they will be attacking and casting on the same turn anyway. Some of the instruments are a lot more...

So far 5e is well put together and fun. Also, it has that New smell where every nook and cranny of the rules have not yet been examined and explored so it wins hands-down even though I would still enjoy playing many other editions.

I don't know that it was so much a casualty of 4e association as it was of just being less well known. They tried to mine every edition for 5e and went with what was probably most well known and had the most non-RPG tie-ins. I have a DDI account, read a bit of 4e Dungeon, played 4e for years...

My players 4e characters were built rather defensively and because it was 4e in general tended to get knocked down a lot but never close to killed. They never scouted or used stealth, and often picked fights unnecessarily. Since we played the 5e starter bit and had a character killed suddenly...

Here's how you break 5e: 1. Give your character 24 for all attributes. 2. 'Fudge' you HP up 1000 points 3. Write 'One million' on the GP line. 4. Say you will throw in on the pizza, then when it comes claim you forgot you were out of cash. 5. Spill your beer all over everyones character...

It's an effort at making Feats attractive and making characters who are broad rather than completely specialized more viable. If you could get to 24 it would almost always pay off to pump your main stat instead of doing something more interesting in the world of bounded accuracy.

It's the same action economy issue that the 4e ranger (and other summoning classes) faced. If you don't take away the characters action to use the creatures action then you are basically adding a new PC to the party, and all encounters need to be rebalanced for that. Combined with the ability...

Lots of good advice here so I will just hit two things: Just because it's sandbox does not mean you have to be the omnipotent god of an entire planet. We are just normal people with limited amounts of time to write stuff that might never be used. Give your players options about what they want...

This adventure is not poorly designed. It's a first adventure for 5e D&D, the core of which, rule wise, is combat. This whole thread has been pretty silly because it's based on a kind of flawed premise that a TPK in the first encounter is A. Likely and B. A natural outcome of playing the game...

My Athas was all about Man Vs. Nature, and the reward for survival was unraveling the mysteries of what came before the fall and what destroyed it all with a glimmer of hope about the future. Day to day it is about making it in a difficult situation where any victory seems well earned and...

Not surprised about Potter, this isn't a list of things people who play D&D like, it's inspiration, particularly for players. They are fine books but the likelihood that a kid picking up a PHB has never heard of Harry Potter is vanishingly small. Same could be said to be true of LotR but that...

It's still pretty iffy, it sounds to me like you could only have one of them cooking at a time, so once you zap into the new one you need a while to make another backup during which you are vulnerable. Also, might be some complications to showing up as a younger version of yourself without your...