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I liked and had been playing 3.5 regularly before 4e was announced, but I didn't mind the idea of a new edition. I figured it would be an evolution of 3.5, fix a few things, add a few new ideas, but hopefully still pretty compatible. Rules info on the new edition was very, very sparse, and...

I also like half damage from weapons because it leaves the Barbarian open to magical attacks, and gives a possible reason why Barbarians hate/fear magic while being able to wade through swords and clubs with less concern.

If the characters in Wizard's Amulet 5e are accurate, it works like this:

Guiding Bolt is a single target spell, while things like Burning Hands or Thunderwave affect multiple targets. Also, Guiding Bolt requires a ranged attack roll, which does no effect at all if it misses, while AoE usually still do half on a save and Magic Missile hits automatically with no save...

What do you mean "none of the kids is playing a cleric, so gone are HD healing"? You don't need a Cleric to use HD healing during a short rest, everyone can do it. See pg 67 of the Basic rules.

I'm going to guess Tome of Horrors 5e?

What I find most interesting is the large number of pre-genned PCs in the back of the adventure. They include a bunch of stuff from the PHB, including races such as the Orc and Gnome, and classes like Sorcerer, Paladin, Ranger, War Cleric domain, etc. The Paladin's Detect Evil is gone (yay!)...

The players stayed in character a lot more, even during combat, and that made it more fun to watch and built great character interactions quickly (I especially liked the way the guy on the far left played the noble). I think not going to moving pieces around on a map helped with that, and also...

Kickstarter has also been a big opportunity to people designing and printing new playing card decks. At first, it was very easy to succeed, but after several of them fell through and never got printed, it has become harder and harder. Decks that would have made it a while ago struggle very...

I gotta agree with those who who like Jesper's design better. While the Red Wizards are wealthy and powerful, they are also not IMO decadent to the point of impracticality, which the bulky gold and sickly palor of the final design represents. I've always viewed them as extremely deadly...

I ran 4e Encounters for a long time, and unlike stories I've heard of some other Encounters games, we had new or different players practically every week. This meant that it made no sense to punish returning players by saying "You can't use your Daily, you used it last session" while the other...

These look interesting, but just how sturdy is foam? Can they be crushed or chipped very easily? They certainly look nice and they are affordable, I'm just worried about long-term durability. Does the foam become more brittle with age, heat, etc?

I'm already in for more than twice that, so many great minis in there that I want! Clockwork dragon, giants, driders, etc!

Now that you've got Imp Crit, look at some of the Critical feats. They cause an effect when you crit, such as Stun, Blindness, 2d6 Bleeding, etc. Lots of very good ones...

Personally, I like the extra HP at 1st level. It's something we've been doing in Pathfinder for years. Characters get their Con score + max HD at 1st level, regular after that. It gives some breathing room and lets them take a hit or 2 without dropping like flies. Before we did that, we...

Exactly, I signed up for the playtest months ago, got the email saying it was ready to download, and it gave me error messages. I requested a new password, it failed. I created a whole new account, which took forever on the laggy site, and even that new account failed and couldn't sign in to...

Probably my favorite house rule is that at 1st level only, characters get their max HD + Con SCORE, not bonus. So a character with a d10 HD and a Con of 14 starts with 24 HP. A d6 HD and 9 Con starts with 15. This allows you to throw significantly tougher battles at your low level characters...

Here's an idea I had... the reason for the randomness is so that people don't cherry pick and sell out on 1 mini while there are dozens of a less popular mini still left, right? Well, how about a set that contains, say, 2 of each common mini and 1 of each uncommon and rare? This way, you are...

It'll be a guy with a terrible accent saying "All ze versions uv D&D before now vere horribly flawed, but finally, 5e iz here! And it iz ze same game, but better!"

Scooter Libby did not leak Plame's identity, Richard Armitage did. And he admitted that fact to the Special Prosecutor. Libby got mixed up on a timeline of events, and thus was hit with charges, but he was not the leaker, and Fitzgerald knew he wasn't from the the beginning.