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Sure. You can use those rules for your character, or you can use 2e rules for your character. That's compatibility. You don't get to mix and match to powergame between the two. It means if you have one player who only has the 1e PHB, they can use that to make their character, while if another...

That's a change in spellcasting rules not class rules. That said... would it make the character nonfunctional if you allowed it? Especially with the worse magic user and race limits?

If you think it's cheating that when you poke a goblin stronghold that the goblins organize a defense like intelligent creatures in potentially unfair ways, then I think you have such a fundamentally different understanding of what D&D is that further discussion is not really worthwhile.

Yeah, I've been silently screaming about the use of the word "attack" in 5e since 2014. It's clearly one of the designers' darlings that "weapon attack" needs to be a term and "attack" needs to be the name of the action and "attack" also needs to be the name of the die roll, and all of those...

Which has always been true. Making it a spell is fine, and it suits the narrative well.

I think you're pretty hard-pressed to say that you're playing a TTRPG so that you don't create a believable world. Like if that's what I wanted then I would choose Gloomhaven, Warhammer 40k, or any number of video games that do skirmish combat far, far better. It's taking the one thing that...

Yeah, I'm having a little trouble evaluating that. I don't know if I could write that ability more awkwardly. Just give me a table!

This is always 100% what WotC and TSR before it have meant by "backwards compatible." It confuses me a little that people don't understand that. It's exactly what it meant with 4e & Essentials. It's exactly what it meant with 3e and 3.5. It's exactly what it meant with 1e and 2e. It's exactly...

Similar to Aladdin. puh-LAD-in

The Vex weapon mastery seems ridiculous. It's self-perpetuating advantage. The rest of them seem decent at first blush. Topple seems like it would trigger... a lot of saving throws. Warlocks as half casters is fine -- if a bit front-loaded still -- but I still don't like how late half-casters...

I think martial artist is the only other name for monk you could use. It does still implying Asian fighting styles, but I think with the rise of MMA fighting that it's going to be the generally preferred term in our culture going forward. Dragon Quest games have soldier and fighter for fighter...

We've always treated it as not a creature, but as basically a telekinetic force that the caster isn't actively using. If anything, it's an intangible object, not a creature. If you walk into the space it occupies, nothing happens because nothing is actually there. Well, whatever the unseen force...

Tasha's. It gave me solutions for a number of different issues, and felt like it genuinely improved the game. Though I do think custom lineages from that book are terrible for powergaming. Everything that's come out since has made me disappointed more than anything. The new structure for books...

Yeah, except historically the magical options they keep adding generally take the form of "spells" that spellcasting classes can easily draw from, or "magic items" that you've got about as much chance of finding as a glass of water in the Nine Hells. Character options aren't really equitable if...

Oh, I agree it's terribly unrealistic. I also don't care. I'd have no objection to hand crossbows doing d3 or d4 damage. Although, it looks like One D&D is going to include pistols. I guess I can just take 2 levels of Artificer and be the Gnome with Gno Gname. I think I'm at a point where if...

Oh, I'm one of them. I love a good John Woo gunfight. I think it's a very fun image, which I admit is very subjective. That is why I find it so frustratingly stupid that after the earlier ruling I posted was made, they also made this ruling that you still have to have a hand free...

No, you don't have to dual wield anything. You can use a single hand crossbow as the only weapon in hand, and it satisfies the requirement of Crossbow Expert: When you use the Attack action and attack with a one-handed weapon, you can use a bonus action to attack with a hand crossbow you are...

Especially when Crossbow Expert gives you an extra hand crossbow attack at 1d6+15 damage.

Ending the campaign before the climactic battle even though all the prep was already done is possibly the most on-the-nose the series ever got.

Jack Chick lied to me.