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Myself? I'd give the Slaad a second save if it fails the first; if the 2nd roll passes, it starts transforming out of humanoid form, and is disadvantaged for a turn (and attacks on it have advantage). This reflects that the creature is "truly" something else as well as humanoid, and the...

Gritty Rests. This is only a pacing change, but the pacing change REALLY MATTERS. Here is a slightly modified version: A SHORT REST requires a night's sleep or equivalent. When you do a short rest, you can expend HD to regain HP (adding your constitution bonus), regain short-rest resources...

1. Merge Race and Background and Theme into one thing. Your Heritage or whatever. This grants abilities over the first 10 levels of your character progression. 2. Reduce feat count. 1 relatively free customization option every 2 levels is too much, and it leads to an optimization problem by...

Assume gritty rest rules. Or, to be more accurate, assume you can only rest at certain safe points. Have limited numbers of short-rest shrines within the dungeon. Each such shrine is one-use; once used for a short-rest, you can't use it again. Resting in the dungeon otherwise is impossible...

...Except all of that only matters after you have played for 3 to 12 months of time. The DMG is aimed at either people new to DMing or new to DMing 5e. None of that advice is useful to either group? Not until they are playing for months if not years. And if they are successful DMs of other...

No, they are expected a DM to learn how well their party handles easy/medium/hard/deadly encounters. And then adjust based on that. If your party is 50% better than it should be? The DM starts out with medium encounters, and you wipe them out without spending resources. The DM is supposed to...

That would be a fun experiment. What if we retroactively applied 4e lessons to 11-20? 4e made 11-20 and 21-30 interesting by adding on a new mechanic -- paragon paths and epic destinies. We could do the same! In my case, however, I'd steal something different from 4e; the power source. And...

I move 10' and tap the ground with a pole. I summon creatures and send them ahead to scout. I mind control foes and use them as cannon fodder. In "reality", effectively fighting a war is years of boredom followed by 10 second of absolute terror, then years more of boredom. The realistic...

I often talk about how many 5e classes have a "back 10" problem; basically, level 11 to 20 is lackluster in terms of features per level. This isn't true of spellcasters. While every level 6-8 spell isn't insane, there are lots of spells in those levels that eradicate entire plot lines. The...

Also, 25% of 100s of millions is still lots of money. The studios care about the (real) bottom line. If success in China is a mere 10% boost to box office revenue, that can easily turn films that lose money into films that make money.

I mean, why would you have to clump China and Japan into one sourcebook? A Japan-mythology based sourcebook, and a Chinese-mythology based sourcebook, would probably both have sufficient audience.

I mean, an Oriental Adventures that isn't a stewpot of western colonial goggles wouldn't suck. So I'm for it. :)

Ah yes, the other fire that isn't light.

Cute. Two of the melee weapons are fire based, which is a bit sad.

I'd want a better set of oracle mechanics than that. This is just a table? And one with honestly too much detail. And a 1% chance of an extreme result/twist seems off. 90%, 75%, 50%, 25%, 10% are the categories for Almost Certain, Likely, 50/50, Unlikely, Small Chance. That could easily be...

Pooled HP on troops can help. A basic humanoid troop is: 10 HP per square AC 15 +1 all saves +5 to hit 5 damage speed: 20': reduced to 10' if seperated. Troops take up many squares. They stay together. Attrition: Every 10 damage shrinks troops by 1 square. Attack: Makes an attack on all...

When looking at the length of combat, there are two sides. How long to run the DM's turns, and how long to run the PCs turns. The PCs turn time can be worked out as the damage per second of Player time (per SECOND not per TURN) divided into the total HP of enemy monsters. For the DM's side...

I have played with giving the Warlock this as a cap feature. But as an action. An action is an interesting thing; it is expensive in combat, and cheap outside.

This is a style difference. In one style, the DM says "you have time for a short rest" based on the plot, or is asked "can we try a short rest" and then either provides consequences or not. Here the short rest is the primary thing in the game, and the DM provides it or withholds it. In...