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On first reading I thought you were being really unexpectedly rude. But the rest of your post was so constructive. I had to read it about three times before I got the joke. :)

I'm trying out simultaneous initiative in a couple games I'm starting up this week. I think in practice it is going to end up looking closer to Ilbranteloth's version, but I still have a list of PC Int scores in my notes in case I need to follow a specific order of declaration. The players are...

This is a fun conversation in general. In an E6, 3.x/Basic/5e mashup game I've been running for the last 5 years, we use a silver standard. We also changed the rate of exchange from 10:1 to 50:1. So 50 coppers to the silver, 50 silvers to the gold. So, PHB prices all get converted from gp to...

Yeah, that sounds amazing to me. I'd play or run that in a heartbeat, if I had a group interested.

There isn't. Because the XP budget is based on XP calculations for Hard/Deadly/etc, and those calculations include phantom XP multipliers that do not actually get award to the PCs, there is no significant relationship between XP budget and rate of leveling. Face the "correct" budget exclusively...

Additional thought: People talk about the 1e-3e "sweet spot" of levels 3-9 or whatever. Often times it's discussed as the time when the game is the best balanced. That was never really my concern. I liked the "sweet spot" because the level of power attained by the PCs put them in the zone I...

Not trying to troll. I'm surely being a bit of a smart-ass with some of the hyperbole, but on the whole I'm sincere about the overall comments I've made. And I think that your response is incredibly insightful. It shows that you've played and understood 4e quite a bit. I agree completely that...

That wasn't my experience. But I think mostly just a consequence of XP costs to level getting so high that people rarely made it past the very low double digits, so it had a sort of accidental bounded accuracy. My favorite 3.X edition is E6. And my complaint about 4e is that the world felt...

It was an impression based on reading the monster manuals the publishers of the game put out. None of my 4e campaigns actually made it past about 8th level or so, so it never really came up in actual play. I like your hobgoblin phalanx approach. That seems cool. The most epic 4e battle I ran...

You're right, my bad. Better hope nobody makes doors out of Iron in your Heroic Tier instanced zones, though. Yikes! Sorry, that was more sarcasm. I liked several things about 4e, but the leveling world was definitely a huge downer for me. Having a dozen different levels of orc or demon...

After knocking down their fifth tree of the day, make a Con check or suffer a level of exhaustion. Or something. Doesn't seem like a real issue.

Maybe. I honestly don't know, which is why I asked. I mean, to me, you're describing one of my favorite things about 5e: how flexible every class is. If you see a guy in leather armor sneak past some guards, pick a lock to obtain important battle plans, draw his sword to cut down the guards...

I was pretty sure the hyperbole would be apparent enough that even battle-scarred edition warriors wouldn't get too bothered. Glad it was received in the spirit it was intended. :) You're absolutely right about the DM vs. Player empowerment angle, good point. That's hugely relevant here, too...

Yeah, makes sense. I'd say that outside of D&D and fantasy settings that I can't guarantee are clean of D&D influences, most instances of the word phylactery do go back to the Hebrew tradition. But I don't have any hard evidence that it's the most common non-D&D example of the word. Just a...

I think you're checking a different reference than he had in mind... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin I think he's just saying that in 1e this was assumed by common knowledge of the meaning of the word "phylactery." In 2e, the phylactery is explicitly stated to often be hidden away. If...

I think you're applying the 3.5 mindset where the goal of the rules was to be a precise simulation of the fantasy world, and everything followed all the same rules all the time. So lock DCs are set, the Balance DC to walk on a cloud is like 140 or something, and there are no special rules for...

I like this. I don't think I mind the stacking bonuses enough to ever implement it, but it's a pretty cool idea and a good solution to a problem I don't have.. Thanks for sharing! :)

The entire purpose of backgrounds is already to give character access to "any skill." Right there in the description of backgrounds it says that if no background appeals to you, you should talk to your DM and invent one. What sort of shenanigans do you expect your players to get up to? A...

Bear in mind that the DMG assumes even for high CR monsters that immunities are a useful defensive buff, x1.25 to the monster's effective HP for calculation purposes. If every single PC has easy ability to overcome the Lich's immunities, a quick start to make sure it remains competitive would...

Xeviat already hit the nail on the head: There is no ratio. At all. It's entirely dependent on how their class levels change where they fall on the CR calculator in the DMG. Also, bear in mind: CR, in general, does not take versatility into account. At all. Not even a little. Seriously...