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I look back at the old 2/3e dungeons and I think the equipment list as Matt Colville has eluded to was the core of the dungeon crawl. We as DMs wanted to reward our players when they took the time to load up on some of that gear and when encountering some of your best laid shenanigans, they...

As an old school dm trying to evolve with 5e, I had no problem running Sunless citadel as a dungeon crawl. I did not make them keep track of torches, or arrows. I just assumed they had enough and would tax them next time they got to a place to rebuy them. Spells, specifically cantrips do have a...

I still am amazed there is not a small heal over time low level concentration spell.

Hyperbole warning.. healing too weak? What do you want, enemies with nerf weapons?...hyperbole ended...resume gaming.

I feel that bounded accuracy although is generally a good thing, has diminished magic item distribution, general stat increases, and a homogenization of armor and weapons. I think 3.0+ got too carried away with redonkulous plusses to hit but it did scale well with the really high AC creatures. I...

Anytime I see generalizations of things, especially nerdy things (knowing how diverse we are), red flags go up. There is no need to take the entire community and try and distill us down to oranges and apples.

In a weak attempt to bring it back to the topic on hand, do you think there is correlation between archaeologists and the lack of DMs? Discuss. I:ROFLMAO: EDIT:My bad I forgot what the actual title of this thread was.

Interpretation of things is without a doubt, the gray area of our field. This is where it gets tricky. All data can be massaged to suit a means, but that's when it gets hammered out by peer review. Interpretation is also where the scientific method really shines for us. It allows us to circle...

Your mind was made up in the first post, and so I will not waste a minute of my time trying to change your mind. In almost twenty years I have yet to meet a colleague who shuts out alternate possible hypotheses, as long as they are based on scientific theory. What we do reject is pseudoscience...

Professional archaeologist here. To quote Luke Skywalker..."everything you just said is wrong". This is not how it works. You are literally making up a conspiracy, to support your conspiracy.

Bard: College of Lore 0 lore this... Paladin: Oath of the Ancients 7+1=8 Rogue: Thief 6

Barbarian: Path of the Totem Warrior 19 Bard: College of Lore 10 Fighter: Battle Master 17=1=18 Paladin: Oath of the Ancients 21 Ranger: Gloom Stalker 6-2=4 Rogue: Thief 20

50 years to the day.

As your resident archaeologist, I can only hope this movie inspires to make more archaeologists.

Probably unpopular opinion, but the lack of dms also reflects poorly on current dms not taking ownership to train others to dm. Despite my years of experience behind the screen, i still feel its my responability to be willing to show someone how to do it and even have one on one training...

But a good Dm learns from all sources regardless of the genre or medium.

Long time forever DM here, I d like to weigh in on what I have seen many of you touch on. As someone coming back to running 5E after a decade off, I found only three products so far from WOTC that I could grab and run off the cuff, Lost Mines, Tales of the Yawning Portal, and Dragons of...

Spell attack bonus, damage modifiers, and initative seem to be things my new players keep having trouble finding.

Abjuration 12 Divination 4 Transmutation 10

Abjuration 16+1=17 Conjuration 13 Divination 11 Enchantment 15-2=13 Transmutation 10