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So my parties bard leveled up and got his level 3 Cutting Words ability. Normally, I do most of my rolling in private, mostly to occasionally fudge things so that the game flows well and to avoid being questioned/annoyed by players who ask why when the attack bonus on this goblin is +3 when...

My party just hid it off the road. It was an item of concern for them, but a relief when it was fine. nbd.

Yeah but then he would only get to troll in one spot, where's the fun in that?

I don't want spoilers so I admit I have not read the review besides a very minor skim. So I will just ask this: If this AP is a D then what 5E adventure is an A+? And pre -5e what is an A+?

Already done, the spells and monsters from the adventure that are not in basic are online for free.

I hope it talks extensively about playstyles... in particular which ones are wrong and terrible so that I can use it as leverage to denigrate people on the internet! This whole 'just have fun and play how you want' thing has got to stop! WE WILL PURGE THE UNBELIEVERS!

I agree, my experience in 4e was that minor actions for some players were a time sink. I don't know if the new system will be an amazing revolution of joy or anything but I am glad they made the attempt and so far in our low level campaign even those who have bonuses have been taking their...

So to summarize, if you like it it's magic and it's good, if you don't like it its not magic and it's bad. Gotcha. I feel like I have been foolish to engage in this conversation. I am going to take some time to rethink the direction of my life.

That way madness lies. Why can't a Barb rage every moment of every day? Why does a level 1 clerics god answer their prayers only 2 times a day? Why can't a wizard just study harder and memorize more spells? How come a bard can only inspire people a certain number of times? Because this is a...

I think it is a pretty important balance feature that you can only pull off the mega-stab on the first round.

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I'd like to see something like the 4e DMG, which had a lot of good advice on how to actually run a D&D game that people will enjoy playing for both the new DM and the old. I thought it was an excellent DMG and it had very few crunchy rues in it. Some interesting rules variations would be...

You can just use a wand as an arcane focus in the PHB, which fits with the HP style wands. The mechanic is not super interesting (only really serves to remove material component requirements, which is less fun imo than having a variety of components) but I don't think boosting save DCs or magic...

The impression I got was that changing it to Bonus was intended to speed play by not making it a separate phase of the round that players had to find a way to use productively. It's not an empty bucket everyone gets but only those who are lucky or plan well get to find something useful inside...

Maybe, but it's not like 4th where I regularly knocked players down every round to have them pop back up, only a small portion of their healing surges used. If you are at 1 HP you are one crit away from dead in many cases. Bleeding out is a little safer because of the positive save track and...

Shall we update the thread title to Druid 20 = Something I Have An Opinion About

Yeah I'd like to make the charges invisible for that reason. Only revealing the current status if identify is cast. But then I have to track them all myself and make all the recharge rolls myself. I am mostly thinking of the item that gives day long Mage Armor to 2-6 players a day. That is...

Again an item that gives you 1d6+1 levels of spells a day forever seems super buff compared to the number of slots a Wizard gets. I like magic items that are rare and powerful but this seems more like common (though not 3/4E common perhaps) and powerful. Maybe once level 1 spells start to suck...

Actually I loved that scene, because it pointed out how little the precise adherence to the rules meant to the game (in this case, it meant absolutely nothing), and how the objection raised only served as a roadbump to slow down the fun. Chris played it well. Oh and I loved the rest as well...

Dunno if this qualifies but my players just remade their characters and are going cleric-less with a Bard and Ranger who is kinda specced as a medic. Will it work? Not sure yet. They have two fighters as well so they should be moderately tough and have some 'free' healing.