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For me, the "tiny forest gnome" is the Quickling. And if/when I ever need an even smaller step down in size from dwarf to rock gnome to X... I usually call X a brownie.

I personally could not care less who was "in charge" at the time of any book being published. Cause it doesn't matter. It's not like I'm getting a cookie if I liked X book that was pushed forward during the Mearls era or Y book when during Winninger. I've liked 5E books published at all the...

But then again... Mike a just a guy. Just like everyone else. The only reason people seem to put more stock into what he says is because he has "fame" in the RPG gaming space. So people take his views more seriously or more to heart than some other rando out there (like say myself) who just...

For me it's almost entirely RP. Combat is fine if the story calls for it, but to do it all the time is just wasting time. To me it's the difference between World of Warcraft and Red Dead Redemption. In WoW if you go out in the world to get to various locations in order to find the quests (IE...

Nope, I'm like you... I thought he was talking about how hard it is for characters to not get hurt within the game-- not about safety tools for players outside of the game. He very much has a bunch of old-school mentalities towards certain aspects of D&D... one of which seems to be wargamer...

It's not like Mike is the first person to do this though. All manner of designers who go on to design new games that aren't WotC D&D invariably talks about the issues with the game while propping up their own games. Matt Colville denigrates a lot of D&D now that he's making Draw Steel! that he...

In person.

There's no point in concerning oneself with the sales of Dungeons and Dragons. So long as one has a group to play with, the game could stop production today and it wouldn't matter. We would still just play whatever RPG we wanted to.

In my opinion there is nothing wrong with a DM who is planning out a campaign to institute "new systems" into the game that they themselves have created. Which means (to go along with your post here)... there's absolutely no reason why in this particular campaign of yours that yes indeed, ships...

Other than these... we already have Arcane Archer, Arcane Trickster, Eldritch Knight, Assassin, and Horizon Walker in the game. Archmage and Hierophant are just really high-level Wizards and Clerics so I don't know how necessary these subclasses actually are. Dragon Disciple has been kind of...

Thematically, the Dwarven Defender subclass of the Fighter would be rather easy to put together I'd imagine. The biggest hurdle would be just what mechanics could be given to the Defender that one wouldn't already be able to put together with a Battlemaster. The Shadowdancer prestige class...

Very true, and my apologies for not actually answering the question. :) But I will say that in some ways I think the details of why I don't use 'hand economy' do in fact go a long way towards figuring out the kinds of things one would have to consider if they decided to go in that direction...

My biggest issue with 'hand economy' has always been that the penalties associated with having to "juggle" items for those classes with weapons / components etc. has never been commensurate with the bonuses you get when you finally accomplish what you wanted to do. For example... you have two...

F feats, Marry magic items, Kill multiclassing.

If you want various baselines for potential characters with different classes and such... there are D&D 3.5 statblock auto-generators you can use to create characters at a foundational level (which you could then tweak with equipment and such.) For instance Myth-Weavers Lethe will create...

Nope, never bother and never ask my players to. Running out of ammo is part and parcel to the various "PCs don't have their equipment" scenarios, and I'll just wait until I run one of those scenarios for them to worry about it. At that point as the story the PCs are involved in consists of...

This is a case where in hindsight they might have been better starting small and then building out... which I think they technically could still do with Maps. Right now with Maps the board is flat and top-down, with tokens used for monsters and PCs (like most VTTs). But it could be possible to...

That's fine for you but doesn't help @Retreater that much, does it? He did it the way you suggest to begin with and now finds himself stuck in the situation he's in. So it's not me you need to convince.

They don't know that. Only you do as the DM. So their experience is the same either way-- they thought of an idea and the idea worked. So given the choice, I'd rather have happy players that actually get what they are looking for and continue to move their actions forward to continue their...

My opinion: My initial question would be whether the Starter Set only uses pre-gens for the PCs, or if there is character creation included? If the game comes with only pre-gens... then sure, some laser-cut standees of the pre-gens (a male and a female, and perhaps even a third non-binary)...