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Not by Wizards of the Coast. Let someone release one on DMs Guild if it's needed that badly. Or let the DM who wants it for their game make it themselves.

At the very least, the indies have an extra 6 months to get their stuff out there to their audiences for this "revival" now that GTA6 has been pushed back and will get released in May of '26. Because that's going to be an exceedingly long spear driven through the gaming community's time for...

For me the first question any DM needs to ask themselves when it comes to their skill list for their game is "Which checks am I asking for or are the players making more often than the others, and am I comfortable with that inequity?" These are the "important" checks that you rightly mention...

I use Mechanics. I have no idea when the term 'engineering' entered the English vernacular, but it feels too modern to me for a typical medieval fantasy-era setting (acknowledging that indeed, standard D&D is itself more modern than the typical medieval era.) But I like to maintain a slight...

We don't bother with "actions" outside of combat, so neither of those have mattered in my games. If someone does something that requires a skill check outside of combat, they just make it whenever it is applicable.

Yeah, I know that's how WotC tried to patch their original mistake with the Tool system, but for my money it shouldn't have gotten to that point in the first place. And honestly the "solution" is merely a kludge in my opinion to deal with overlapping skills and tools... plus I think it greatly...

For my recent Theros campaign I did something along these lines... I renamed the 'Persuasion' and 'Intimidation' skills to 'Rhetoric' and 'Presence' as they had more meaning in the Ancient Greek-ish setting. So 'Rhetoric' was specifically about discussion and argument-- leaning very much in the...

I have to imagine that the game mechanics were not the thing they were getting most of their responses on... it was probably entirely all about the Purple Dragon Knight's narrative conceit and whether or not a dragon pet subclass should be attributed to that organization specifically. Whether...

The real issue I've always had with the 5E skill system is that they originally made an interesting choice by moving a whole bunch of the lesser-used potential skill actions and turned them into Tool Proficiencies and Musical Instrument Proficiencies, and gave characters a handful of them in...

Oh, I really like this word. In the past I've always defaulted to 'Etiquette' or 'High Society' or 'Nobility' when I wanted to include a skill regarding dealing with the upper class, but never really liked any of the choices I used. But 'Decorum' is a fantastic word for that. I will keep it...

That's why I use 'Mechanics' myself.

We have gone over adjusted skill lists for 5E since 5E first got released. I change my skill list every time I run a new campaign when there are skill effects that I wish to highlight. Also, because I use the 'Alternative Ability Score' variant, that changes what skills I need to have and use...

I'd like to run Curse of Strahd again. I ran it for two groups simultaneously soon after it came out, and now that I've seen how they both went I have new ideas of what I would do differently. The only issue is that I'd want a group of entirely new players for it to keep things fresh and I ran...

When the Taskmaster gives you a task... you have to do it.

Taking the use of the word "excited" in the thread title at its word... my vote was 'None'. Reason being that I do not get excited about gaming products. Are there ones on the list I might pick up? Sure. Most likely the Eberron book, and the FR books I will glance through and see if I want...

Easiest reason why cities and nations would allow the existence of magic markets? Sales tax. Same reason why any government allows the proliferation of the sale of standard items to the general populace. Every sale brings cash into them. So of course stores would exist for expensive items...

For me the point of the Invisibility spell is that it grants the person being "heavily obscured" no matter where the person is standing. If the person is out in the open but invisible it's the equivalent to the person having found cover to be behind. It just gives the hider more opportunity to...

I believe it is "Using someone else's rules even if you don't like them, rather than just using your own." :D

I have a basic system I use. You want to hide from someone? Get out of view of the person you are hiding from (mechanically-speaking get behind 3/4 or total cover, or be heavily obscured relative to that person), and then use an Action (or Bonus action for a Rogue) to make a Dexterity...

Yeah. Choose any of the other seventy-six "fixing stealth" threads that have been made since 5E's release back in 2014. ;)