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Why not? What difference does it make? I mean when people want to do "generic fantasy" they can choose between Oerth and Faerun, so why do they choose one over the other? Because of what the setting looks like, the characters in the setting, how the towns, cities, and rural areas are...

What exactly would be the point or necessity then of taking all the material one has from all the classes and just relocating them into other classes? You are not gaining or losing anything other than the names of the buckets the information shows up in. So rather than Wizard being its own...

People here have suggested that the game doesn't need the three arcane casting classes. So the post was aimed at them, along with anyone who has ever said that the Ranger shouldn't be a class or the Paladin should be removed from the game or made into subclasses or whatnot. But I did not quote...

It always amuses me that bunches of players for some reason keep wanting to condense the game rules down into like three or four small buckets. "Merge the classes!" they say. But it's like "That's why the Basic Rules were for!" for 5E14. If you only want four classes... you had them right...

Well, it's called 'Constitution' because it's the foundation of who we are as a people and we're glad it's good, but it's annoying that you can never really change it.

More often at Level 1 since the getting to 2 and 3 take like a session or two at most so it essentially feels like players start at 3 anyway... but I have also just started right at Level 3 for smaller games that were not planning on being long-term campaigns.

It's an interesting idea, but I think the real issue is that not all six of the ability score have natural opposites. Sure, STR and DEX seem like if you have one you wouldn't have the other... but what would you not have if you had a high CON? What's its opposite ability score? And what would...

If a person can come up with a distinction between a Psion and a Sorcerer (or a Psion and a Wizard)... and they do, because of all the complaints we get any time the possibility is floated that we don't actually need a Psion class because we can just have it be a subclass of the Sorcerer and...

Did I say "remove"? No. I said focus on other things. A Dragonlance game that takes place in Krynn but does not focus on the War of the Lance (while it still goes on in the background) is still a Dragonlance game. Same way a Ravnica game that takes place in Ravnica but is not specifically...

Steampunk is an aesthetic borne out of retro-futuristic technology during the Victorian era. As Dungeons & Dragons is by no means Victorian in its aesthetic, it therefore cannot be steampunk.

It doesn't matter how large or how small the number of people were that may or may not have liked the changed. So the "can't please everyone" argument is NOT 'moot'. YOU don't like the change and you think that what... 99% of the D&D populace agrees with you? Fine. Well, unfortunately for...

Well, it stops being the author's/designer's/publisher's setting at the time the book was written... but it is still (general) your setting. But of course that is true of every single setting book. As soon as a DM runs a game in any setting, there is no more so-called 'canon' because...

If you want to give your players a modicum of autonomy, that's perfectly fine! But don't then complain that the book is written in such a way that they are stuck with a background they don't want because there's no "custom option" and you as the DM don't want to help them because you "need a...

You say that like it's not something players are supposed to be doing anyway. The idea that players can just show up and do and present whatever they want for their characters because "the books say I can" and the DM has to allow it no questions asked... has never been a habit that the...

Absolutely. Minions, lair attacks, swarms... the 5E game has numerous ways to represent masses of small enemies attacking all at once while cutting down the number of attack rolls having to be made and keeping track of all those small piles of damage. But doing so just means a person is...

No... I don't CARE if they update the setting or don't update the setting. Because I use the material from whatever setting I'm playing at the time said material was what I want to use. I occasionally run Eberron. I use all my 3.5 Eberron books (about a dozen) to supply me with whatever...

Which is exactly how everyone who wants to play a particular setting from a particular moment in publishing time should do.

You own the old stuff right? So your Dark Sun game isn't being altered. Or does your ego require everyone else to want and play the same Dark Sun you do? Well, that's not going to happen because neither WotC nor any of other thousands of players out there in the world care about your own...

Nothing like this is actually as black and white as you are making it out to be. You are stating your preferences, not actual rules or facts.

One of the downsides of doing a Tucker-esque type of scenario is that you end up having to use so many, many low-powered enemies on the field just to counteract the odds of those enemies ever actually hitting. That was one of the main points about the Tucker's Kobolds concept... that players...