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Clerics can also raise the dead, remove curses and perform a litany of support features a warlord simply cannot. Warlords can't support as well as a cleric, but (assuming your two dice assertion is accurate, though you didn't show me any numbers with it) they can enable more damage. Since a...

You have yet to actually demonstrate that is a problem. Please do so. Please back up that assertion.

A single attack that, if attack-granting is an ability that costs an action, consumes your ability to take an attack action and thus precludes your benefiting from the extra attack feature, or from taking bonus action attacks that require you to have taken the attack action. In other words, if...

"I give up part of my turn so an ally can take one of a small selection of off-turn actions" (which should, because they're off-turn, require that ally to spend her reaction) is by no means a problem. Depending on the specifics of it, I'd let that mechanic in my game with no qualms about it...

Thank you, both of you.

I agree that it wasn't a practical joke. You mention what you did being an act of desperation. Desperation implies that rational and measured means have been previously attempted to no avail. However, your OP makes it sound like you never even spoke to him about changing editions, or even...

Way too many people use "it's just a practical joke" as an excuse to be an utter dick. I can't recall the last practical joke I ever even heard of, much less witnessed, that didn't consist of someone just straight-up being a jerk to someone else.

Neither of my two worst purchases moved me to actual rage either. They just get the title of worst because of how little use I got out of them for the money I spent on them. Never had the BoVD, but I do own the BoEF, and the majority of the non-crunch parts of the book are pretty good (the...

The tiles and the 3e PHB 2.

Homebrew - it's not even a contest. Next would have to be the Palladium Books universe. After that, Ravenloft, Planescape and Spelljammer. FR barely gets on the list, but only because of the published adventures I'd been running, and then only until recently (when my group went though a...

I love having more race, class, feat, background, and magic item options (both as a player and as a DM), but I've always had a real problem with D&D's obsession with elf races. There are so many elves that are basically nothing more than "Insert Terrain Noun or Adjective Here Elf," and I think...

Yes, but my campaign setting uses its own variant human.

Depends on the feat. There are some feats I have just straight-up disallowed (none so far from 5e, but it definitely happened in prior editions), just like I disallow all long-range teleportation spells. A nerf, by comparison, alters how powerful something is, or how it works. It definitely...

The Crafted. Children of the Forge. Forgeborn. Golemkin.

DMs can always nerf. I've nerfed feats before. But, the key distinction is that I tell my players about it beforehand, so they know what they're getting if they choose that feat. Nerfing a feat without advance warning, or without explaining to the player why the feat as is poses a problem and...

Some individual feats are badly designed. That happens. For example, the Actor feat basically tells you you can try to do something you should already be able to try to do (i.e. try to mimic a sound or voice), and it tells you to resolve it using an unmodified version of the way most things...

Notoriety isn't always a boon. Sure, people have heard of D&D. If you're trying to get money for a D&D movie, that notoriety may work against you as much or more than it works for you. Especially since the property already has movies associated with it that are just . . . well . . . yeah.

If they make a Van Richten book, I want it to be a book about the following: 1) how to create a mood or tone of horror in the game; 2) how to run a mystery or investigation in the game; and 3) how to customize monsters into unique and fully fleshed out villains. How to give a monster...

In a game with fewer players I can see greater potential for that situation occurring. My group has typically been between 4-6 players, with a short spike where I had 8 players. Also, I do let PCs administer a healing potion to an unconscious ally as an action (it usually takes the character's...

Fair enough. I did say that. Frankly, I've never seen it come up. I've never seen a PC reduced to zero HPs (especially if they've had to make one or two death saves) who didn't receive some kind of magical healing before taking a long rest (even if it's just as a defensive measure to keep...