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Also, I usually find it's critical that you indicate the general tone and style of the campaign, how you like to resolve action, and the types of action and activities you find permissible. How you'll be playing something is as important or more important that what you'll be playing. Will the...

If you need a decapitated bugbear head to intimidate goblins, you're not a psychopath.

Exhaustion doesn't seem to be too troubling for full casters. Does disadvantage on ability checks or half speed really impair a wizard? And only level 6 "death" directly impairs spellcasting. I'd think if you're speed was reduced to 0 from exhaustion you'd at least have trouble concentrating on...

I'm loving the project and its results and looking forward to more. Valkana is right up my RPG alley and I've always liked the Dragon Age system. Session 1 gave everyone a chance to get their bearings with each other, the system and the world so it worked well. I just hope my own players don't...

Stuff that's preventing me from doing anything other than dabbling in 5E: 1. The classes/subclasses. I don't like how most of them are built and would have to rewrite most class features to get them into shape. Doable, but I won't bother. 2. Short rests. I hate these things, yet they're...

I'd just let them add the extra damage sans effect. I would also let them do the effect without the extra damage if they so wanted. Why? I don't see any benefit in being rigid about this stuff. D&D 5E is much more about "ruling, not rules" so parsing the books as if they are legal documents...

I am the DM, the weather changes at my whim. Think on that, ye mortals, and tremble for if thy displease me there shall be storms and vengeance...

That's odd. When I ran 5e it worked the same as fighter multi-attacking and such. Monsters could replace individual attacks with other types of checks (grappling, shoving, etc.) if it was advantageous and/or interesting to do so. It seems ridiculous that a dragon has to choose between...

I'm not up on my witcher lore, but I rather like the class. A bit complicated with lots of moving parts, but kind of what I wanted the 5e ranger to be. XP for you, sir.

Since near-modern sanitation is possible for numerous pre-industrial societies that make it a priority, I just make it a cultural thing. For my games, most civilized lands are relatively clean and sanitary without open sewers and unmitigated squalor. The more chaotic and evil the society (to put...

Do not want. FR setting? Blech. Demons? Meh. Underdark? Yeah, okay, maybe. Drizzt? Most definitely not. The whole vibe of this project is early DL adventures with prescribed storylines and sacrosanct NPCs. I'm picturing a DM sidebar entitled "What To Do If Drizzt Dies: Thou Shalt Not Kill Off...

Nope. I don't need to pay for ideas--I've got tons of my own and a limitless supply from older games, TV shows, movies, books, comics, and the world around us. The same goes for encounters, dungeons, NPCs, monsters, magic items, etc. Really, the only thing from PotA I'm vaguely interested in...

I don't the last time I used stats for a good-aligned (or allied) NPC. If the PCs aren't going to fight it, it doesn't need stats. I'd much rather use DM fiat or quick die rolls ("50-50 to see if Traxx escapes the den of trolls without PC involvement") than manage and reference stat blocks...

Time is one of the best weapons in the DM's arsenal to create compelling gameplay. Period. Full stop. End of story. Time limits spur action and force choices. I picked 'fast and loose' since I don't like to account for each and every second of a game day. I usually break the overall adventure...

I love gaming with 3 players no matter the system. Fewer PCs means more opportunities for those players to shine, quicker combat rounds ("What, it's my turn again? Already?"), and generally more interesting play as the party is less likely to have the character with the instant win-button for...

For globe of invulnerability the bead shatters, it's not consumed by the spell. It's a bit of flavor, that's all. The spells that consume components are virtually all spells with long casting times or non-combat applications (clone, divination, glyph of warding, heroes' feast, magic mouth...

Lots of fiddly PC options and bumps for the players. Lots of adventure paths for DMs. Lots of art and maps and cards and toys for everyone. The rules, though, the rules are garbage.

Buying magic items. Sure, the DMG says they aren't available for purchase, but that's just a lie the 1% tell to keep the riff-raff out of the most exclusive shops and esteemed auction houses. They prefer astral diamonds and cases of vintage mithralschlager but most will take gold (preferably in...

I'd agree that subtle spell would be the only way to hide spellcasting from anyone who is paying attention to you. I'd allow a check to hide it if you have some sort of cover, concealment or a distraction aiding you. Then the game becomes manipulating the circumstances to hide your...