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I'm going to compare it to three other games I prefer and am familiar with, and I'm going to leave out 3.X as in my opinion play experience varied as much table to table as it does for entire systems. Combat--Combat in 5E goes by fast, often in 2-3 rounds. Monsters hit pretty hard, which is...

Optimization isn't the issue. Talking with everyone at the event, we seem to have the most optimized table out of the seven. In addition, this table is more optimized than the one I was a PC for last season during Curse of Strahd. Walking away is going to happen, but that doesn't mean there...

There is a bit of a grey area I find. If you take it that the system mechanics reflect the game world, building a character effective at doing X is going to take the road of reflecting the mechanics, not story. In this instance, I consider the story and mechanics being at odds to be the fault of...

Perhaps not, but I wasn't expecting as quick or dramatic change in my mood when it comes to the game than what happened. I wanted to run it this time to get a deeper feel for the system, to see if I could bend it to my will. I have my answer. BA is a part, but not the big issue IMO. BA more or...

It's an AL event, but my table is run as a home game. This was made clear to everybody, and everybody gave their ok.

A while back I commented on joining an Adventurer's League Curse of Strahd campaign. For the new season, I decided I wanted to run a table this time. With one exception, it's gone very well so far. I managed to get a good table of players, and we've been pretty stable attendence wise. In fact...

I'm coming into this thread, and responding to the original post here: I'm a power gamer, and powergaming is how I play. The question is if the game allows major customization but that customization doesn't increase power level, how does this affect me. I have two answers to this. First is that...

For Hp and Con, Dex, and Wis saves you can usually make a pretty educated guess just by eyeballing the monsters, but that would be dependent on player skill/experience. As for resistances/immunities, those have tended to carry over from edition to edition, which is what I was getting at. On a...

Those things seem pretty minor compared to: 3E--Monsters as PCs, feats, Prestige Classes, Warlocks shooting Eldritch Blasts at will, Tome of Battle 4E--Fighters get powers too, the 4E Defender and Leader roles, Warlord(you mean I don't have to play a Cleric?), Healing Surges, the Encounter...

Is there really any difference between reading the 5E monster manual and having played D&D for 20 years over 3 previous editions, most of which were as the DM, and all the D&D monster knowledge accumulated from that.

Meaning what?

1. When exactly did I say my opinion was more informed than yours? 2. I can pretty much guarantee my assessment of my own feelings about D&D would be more accurate than your assessment of my feelings about D&D. 3. You have certainly played far more 5E than I have. I would have to include the...

I haven't DMed since support for 4E ended, but historically I've DMed more than I've played. My preferences are the same either way, when I DM, I DM the game how I would want it to be if I was playing. I don't like making rulings more than I absolutely have to and prefer to empower players and...

I possess most of the 5E books, though I've only bought Curse of Strahd(the rest I inherited a while back from somebody who quit D&D, though theoretically if he ever comes back I'll return them). The core 3, Strahd(which I haven't read since I'm playing it), some of the other adventures whose...

In that case, I didn't know it was required to have to use language precise enough to withstand legal scrutiny to post on this forum. I also didn't know that opinions themselves would be subject to legal type scrutiny. Seriously, I play 4E and 5E. That's plenty enough to know I prefer the...

Given the general level of hostility that came out of people(as a group) who were unhappy with 4E, not really.

Neither works with the Blade Warlock Invocation that lets you attack twice either, it bears saying. The difference between the two is that Greenflame Blade is somewhat based off of intelligence(the splash damage is somewhat based on your Int mod), and that it's a choice of...

I didn't know that having an opinion had so many requirements.

Im a little hesitant on the subject of Exalted. I played some 2nd Edition Exalted and mechanically that system was an utter disaster. So much so it kind of soured most of the people I gamed with on Exalted, and I'd have an uphill battle getting anyone else interested. In any case, I found 4E...

Naruto as opposed to Howard's Conan for example. A D&D example would be 3.5E's Tome of Battle.