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In my experience, to many players, if it’s in the PHB; it’s fair game. And DMs, especially new ones, are less chastised for adding more stuff than banning things from the PHB. This is neither in favour or against firearms in the PHB, just as to why I care about what is and isn’t default.

It is?

« Need to »? Probably not, but I’m glad D&D did reinvent itself every decade or so. I much prefer this edition to the first, and everything that has happen in between was (probably) necessary to evolve and grow into what it is today. If it hadn’t, I probably wouldn’t be playing D&D but some...

Seen from this angle, that makes more sense. Not sure if I agree, but that'd be consequent.

Most of my gaming friends, even those who are pretty invested in the hobby, only have a vague idea that D&D is cooking some 50th anniversary re-release with slightly updated character creation rules à la Tasha, let alone having knowledge of specific UA content. Same with the RPG-ing college...

Really? I was under the impression that monastism (?) was one of the most widely shared religious concepts. If you look at the typical Christian-type monastery with life-time monks making beer and cheese, I agree that's pretty specific, but monastery as the concept of a secluded place to...

I corroborate your information. Actually, I’m pretty sure we can find enough evidence support on these forums to elevate your « anecdotal experience » to « dubious empirical data ».

Voted 3+ because I have yet to come across any game that would have less than three problems. For me, the number of problems doesn't really matter compared to how disruptive they are, which depends on groups, campaigns, ans styles of play. A single big and disruptive problem, even if it isn't...

Different techs, different expectations.

No, but they do change the paradigm significantly. By the mid 18th century, even if melee weapons are not obsolete, warfare revolves around firearms. Genre has shifted from faux-medieval to (faux) Napoleonic Europe, with rank soldiers using guns rather than swords or polearms. Swords and...

That's not only true about Batman! Similarly, fairy tales and and early literature/play-writing would be a lot thinner if parents didn't think that the solution to their child's problem was to lock them up in a secluded tower forever...

But i think this is one of the reasons why many people are "afraid" of unleashing technology in their (high) fantasy; our own history teaches us that technology grows at an exponential rate. From roughly 1750 on, the "genre" of the game changes every 50 year, every 25 years from 1850, and then...

"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." - Elminster, probably...

Not sure about what they “should” be, but I know what I’d like them to be for my (mostly medieval-ish) campaigns. My ideal levels of techs are all over the place: I don’t mind anachronism when compared to real-life eras. In true Tolkien style, technology levels are relatively static, with...

I will bring a pen and a pencil to our pen&pencil games (and while we’re at it, an eraser too). No more “hey, can I borrow a pencil?” for me in 2024!

I see two great shapeshifting archetypes (which in context of 5e could become subclasses of a single shapeshifting class) A shapeshifter specialized (or even restricted) to a single form, akin to lycantropy (presumably a combat-oriented one), and one that can shift swiftly between multiple...

A few more games have been played. It’s been fun! One change I decided to make early in the transition from TOR to Star Wars was to drop the Eye of Sauron and Gandalf Rune symbols on the Feat Die (d12). My reasoning was that they didn’t match the SW universe (in retrospect that could easily be...

I like medieval fantasy up and including high-fantasy à la Tolkien. I don’t mind magic as long it is not too too prevalent. Actually, I don’t mind D&D’s high-magic as much as I dislike the fantasy-supers of high level play. Sci-fi is usually hit-and-miss. As a genre I love it but individual...

didn’t see the D&D-specific-ness of the thread, so my post isn’t as valid. Lots of good stuff abovethread that I’m not going to repeat, but I’ll add the following: it’s a young hobby only becoming mature. 50 years ago, D&D players were pioneers. RPG is a rather recent media. It was always...

At least he seems to have a centered hand grip on an embossed shield; art often show shields with a boss being strapped to the forearm. As for the rest; it’s for show. Like every single microphone in every single movie is going to feedback as someone comes close, or car tires screech in dirt...