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I don't think this was ment as an addition war comment.. Simply as fact, most pathfinder campaign play is, in fact, home play. As was living greyhawk, living city, and so on. By limiting home play options, they have only surrendered the 'home play space' to PFS

I sooooo wish they would make that system open source, if they ever did I think it would quickly become the most popular alignment system...

why the heck do you need alignment again? if you need a rule to force your players to be good guys, you clearly are running the wrong game. run a game where the players can be what they want to be.... make sure there are consequences... see how they act when a paladin comes knocking, when...

why do you need to say NO to wild mages? because they are too silly to you? I looked at it and thought, wow I can play one hell of a "mad man" wizard... the kind that is "just not their", always mumbling to himself, once in a wile will look at a bird and say "I had feathers once" so much...

let go of your hate.... it will only lead you to dark places... the basic rules are their to give you a foundation, the combat rules and the system rules are the same as the PHB rules.... PHB reprints and expands upon them... D&D 5e is a toolkit, you, the game master, gets to choose what is...

in my experience the best way to do one monster vs. a party depends on the type of encounter you want. if it's just a monster/random encounter.. let the heroes have their way. for a special story hook/epic fight, give the solo creature more actions, each action has it's own initiative, maybe...

Easy solution someone should create a PDF with a checklist of all the classes and optional rules in the PHB & DMG have someone make it form fallible, check marks... GM fills it out, prints it, and hands it to his players..... This is what is in, and what is out... here are the page...

That is the kind of GM.... you should NOT be playing with. "oh but we don't have any other GMs" yes you do..... YOU.. lead by example or suffer the suck

the new "core book" is the free one, the basic game.... here is your "100% core and in the game" book.. and it's free to all your players! bonus!!! anything else is optional fixed it for you..... your welcome

Starting my 8 year old with 5th.... :D

true chainmail was in fact a miniature war game (totally forgot that) I started with the basic box set (where the elf was a class) and the combat system was not where near as tactical, heck 1st edition with segments is not as tactical as 3.X the point I was attempting to make is that, maybe...

the fact that they have not even mentioned home play worries me... alot I would like to see my pathfinder game changed to the new 5e campaign (seeing it looks to have a "story" ::gasp:: ) but without a home play option, I see it a hard climb :erm:

well D&D didn't start out tactical (well at least for me, as I started with Basic D&D when I was like 9), and 1st edition had ::shutter:: segments, but 2nd edition was a lot better in that respect and allowed for free form play (you never "needed" a battle map) so it depends on what version of...

I think players have come to expect "tactical combat" as some kind of rules necessity, just last night my group had a dynamic, cinematic battle which had everyone on their feet, standing around the table (you know it's good when players sit up and others stand) by the end of it one of the...

you might be surprised how easy it was to run/play a waterdeep campaign based around the noble families and their power struggles. the campaign ended with the heroes stopping the assassination of all the masked lords, unmasking one known as the 'white mask', who turned out to be the one behind...

that's my hope...

but if you find the mechanics they are using in other, pre-existing d20 products by other companies, or within the OGL itself there is not much they can do about it. >> points to castles and crusades for attributes as saves

There is no "old contract" its the open gaming license... as long as you stay away from specific terminology and use existing mechanics you can create something VERY close to 5e. See 13th Age (4e built from the OGL) and the 1st edition clones for what I mean...

You have two specific issues at play 1) Game rules can not be copy written only the specific expression of those rules. (specific terminology) 2) the OGL is very broad, as such someone wanting to rebuild a 5e clone only needs to find similar existing mechanics in an existing d20...

Except, thanks to the OGL we can reverse engineer most of 5e... if the user agreement is too closed I expect to see a Next20 (n20) system appear within a few months with the exception of a few mechanics (Advantage/Disadvantage... which can be re-worded to work like the luck domain, this the...