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Which game do you have in mind? First of all, in a typical RPG the premise is that the player makes the decisions (i.e. choose their actions) and the DM determines the outcome. If my players started pretending to determine the outcome, then I would start pretending to choose their actions...

The chef, the dandy and the mastermind. The BBEG is like a chef: there are things only they can do, and their time is better spent doing those, that's why they have assistant cooks to deal with generic tasks like slicing onions or adventurers. The BBEG is a bit of a dandy: simply doesn’t like...

As accomodating as the DM is comfortable to be. If I were to start a long campaign (a real one made of MANY adventures, not ONE adventure stretched over 10-20 levels as typical 5e WotC adventures) I would be very accommodating. But I run only single 1-3 sessions adventures since many years...

What I mean is that, when it is time for a creature to make a save, it would be best for the DM to have everything they need in the same place. The 2014 monster stat block had a section listing the save modifiers (only those which were different from just the ability modifiers). The 2024...

I am not sure what you mean, because I pretty much said that what I would prefer is NOT to separate the saves base bonuses (i.e. save proficiencies) from other saves modifiers (e.g. "magic resistance") and that both the 2014 and 2024 stat blocks DO require you to read two different places. These...

I actually like the picture itself and the graphical style but... other than using it as a poster or on a t-shirt, I wouldn't know what to do with it.

As awful as the 2014 official character sheet. Official character sheets are always so poorly designed with respect to usability at the table, that they are one of the reasons that make me doubt that designers even play their own game.

I think the Reaction section has a small improvement by showing "trigger" and "response" separately. It is more readable and less verbose. I don't think instead that the online display of save bonuses is that useful. What would have been more useful to me, would have been to keep a "Saves" line...

I really liked that show, even each time it significantly shifted its narrative gist through the seasons, but I can't say that the ending worked for me. It just felt too naive, and didn't exactly seem to match with the 'fantasy environment' up to that point. This one I really liked from the...

I am not sure, as I said I haven't followed up closely the recent test packs and reveals. I kind of think the changes from Tasha are bigger than the changes between Tasha and 5e, and some people even called Tasha already a 5.x. Well you are saying it yourself that you had quite a bit to...

Good summary. I haven't kept up with the news as I am not really interested in switching to 5.5e, but at the very least it is a revision similar to 3.5e. They can claim 'compatibility' all they want, but I am very confident that the vast majority of those who will play 5.5e will keep it...

Well I have no idea about what is your DM's plan for this campaign. To be honest, I have grown very detached from the current concept of 'campaigns' as I think most people are really only running individual big adventures with very fast level-up and calling them 'campaigns', which is not the...

They already belong to a terminated edition. All DMs switching to the 5.5e core books will sooner or later disallow books from 5e, players will all start from 5.5e core material which already includes reprints/updates from 5e supplements. Then just like 3e/3.5e we will see fans of subclasses...

I agree wholeheartedly. I wouldn't say they suck but I don't enjoy the fact that they are effectively whole campaigns (not counting here those couple of books which are collections of shorter adventures). Roughly (not strictly) they assume/require to start with new characters, level 1 or...

Is it even possible to run FR or GH "truly by the canon"? The amount of official material is massive and scattered through many editions... wouldn't it require a lot of effort to study not just what is in current edition books but also what is in previous editions books and sort between what has...

I played countless adventure video games, point-and-click, and text adventures / interactive fiction, most of which in the past were effectively railroads (until when it became much easier to have multiple endings), and I had a lot of fun despite having no choice in how the story arc would end...

I haven't seen enough to draw statistically relevant conclusions, but I have seen both. The choice has been more tactical than narrative: do you want to fight combats as a melee beast, or with spells? We have been using Xanathar, but nobody has ever chosen its two Druid subclasses.

It depends on the players group, and I am usually not asking them to keep track of something unless they start doing so. If the players don't go telling each other "we should have enough ammunitions before this quest", I am not asking them to keep count, nor I keep count secretly and then all of...

Not that many, I haven't counted them but probably 60-70.

I eat healthily, but a gaming night would usually be the exception. And since I stopped using real books at the tables a long time ago, greasy food is not a concern. Most commonly, we have crisps (though I usually don't buy the overly processed stuff like pringles, and I think the best crisps...