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I was wondering the same thing. Why lessen this at all if you are allowing it? It reminds me of the days before most RPG's quantified the Intimidation Skill/ability and you'd get DM's pretty routinely using it to say "Ok, you've intimidated him the guard, and he's scared, but he still won't...

Seriously. I had to re-read the post a couple of times to figure out exactly what we were talking about here. Here's an example of my DM'ing to make you feel a little better about yourself. In our current campaign, a player left the game for personal OOG reasons about a year back, the in-game...

I keep hearing that Autorealm and Campaign Cartographer are great, but I have been unable to repliably use them. They seem to be based on AutoCAD rather than, like, MS Paint: so there is not a lot of intuitive utility there.

I think the "only one concentration spell" rule is one of the crown jewels of 5E. I like such and elegant design to get the endless Buffing Storms under control. If I never see another round of Scry - Buff - Teleport again I'll be fine.

I remember reading a Paul Kemp D&D novel (pretty much the only RPG novels I bother with) and he had the characters thwarting some Slaad plot and--while the stakes were certainly high--there was nothing earth shaking about their plot. it was really kind of refreshing :)

There is plenty of identified source material where the protagonists don't engage in endless world-saving. The notion that that's all there can be shows a massive lack of imagination and awareness of what the game can do. People focus on Frodo, but forget Conan and Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser,

That's actually a really good point.

Yeah, I'm with Brent, we were playing with Delay just because we were used to it and it's pretty intuitive at this point. I'm not sure what Karin's Dad means when he says it's time consuming, I use a magnet board (or recipe cards) for initiative, so delaying/holding/readying are all easy as...

That's all I really need too. Again: me too

Hey thanks! :)

NPC's as Monster writeups. I'd have loved more of these and a few fewer dragons.

No, not at all. My parents were just so chuffed that I was doing something intellectual (reading mostly) as a pastime that they were really supportive, despite not really knowing what was going on. What was going on was my friends and I had seen a new report about this game that made kids...

I'm going with: "Everyone but Mearls" for 10 bucks.

Huh, guess I should've read the thread before replying. Mousferatu said it better than I did :)

Utterly fine with it. I always like more fluff to be included as it can be used for inspiration if nothing else. But did I ever think that Lore would make the mechanics useless in other contexts? No, I did not. It honestly never would have occurred to me when I was looking for a small...

I try to keep away from "everyday magic" in my setting as it tends to just fill in the void that technology would otherwise, and I like to run a "Dark Ages/Medieval/Renaiisaance faire" setting. Like all that stuff described above about digging a dungeon/mining using stone to mud and create...

Nice :)

Not me. Every edition has people asking for some version of what you are asking for here "Do it softcover, on newsprint, with no art...just give me rules and get the price down". Honestly, I love hardcover, art-heavy books. Since way back in the 80's I've been inspired by a lot of the art in...

This is not too far off what I do. If the example we're using is Pick Lock, then I just say each attempt takes a round. If it doesn't matter how long it takes, I make them roll until they succeed or give up. If time does matter (water is rising in the room or a monster impervious to everyone's...

This. The Player's Handbook is well done, fine and serviceable. The Monster Manual, however, is a tour de force; probably the best iteration of the MM I've ever seen. If the DMG meets even a halfway point between these two in quality, it will be excellent.And seeing as it was done by the same...