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That not a bad alternative, though I'm not concerned with players gaming disadvantage stacking. One could also just alter the damage die as seems appropriate. A longsword may only do 1d4 bludgeoning, but could still do 1d6 piercing, as it has a really good point on it.

For a sword, which primarily does slashing damage but can potentially do bludgeoning or piercing, I would allow a player to declare that they're specifically looking to do piercing damage, and the attack would have disadvantage to represent the inability to use the full range of the weapon's...

It seems there is rough agreement. For myself, I've always started with the silver piece, and assumed it was somewhere between $10 and $20. An exact figure is pointless, but that represents a familiar range of buying power.

It's a difficult puzzle to solve. I don't anyone will disagree that the ENWorld community has a lot of creativity. With some form of centralized editorial control, and a chance to get paid, we could create a lot of great content. Morrus on the right path, in some regard, with each article...

I wouldn't worry about it. Magic items are supposed to be unbalanced. It's their ability to break the normal bounds of the rules that makes them special. It's up to the DM to determine how much of that he or she is prepared to handle, and give out items accordingly.

I picked it up as well and it's clear that the design goal for this screen was not to provide easy reference to rules so much, but to provide tools for making decisions quickly during play. Even the conditions are presented with the art in such a way as to assist you in knowing when to apply...

I suspect that one way they're planning to avoid bloat is through attaching crunch to storylines. For Elemental Evil, we're getting the adventure and the Adventurer's Handbook that supports it. I don't anticipate that the Elemental Evil Adventurer's Handbook will ever be republished (at least...

It doesn't appear as information dense as I would like, but it is attractive, and I do appreciate having some artwork on the interior. The art breaks things up and can make finding a specific table a little easier. I'll pick it up and probably use it for a while. The charts and information I...

Probably my copy of Ptolus. I've never used it, but it's so beautiful. It's probably the most well laid out setting book I've ever seen, which is good, because it's a monster of a book.

I just wanted you to know that I'm finding it useful too as I attempt to expand beyond Lost Mine at Phandelver. Just having the various entries from past source books compiled has been of tremendous help.

I'm not sure that's a distinction most people would recognize, though it's an interesting insight to how the game was played.

That picture is among the worst I've seen, but there are similar problems at Barnes & Noble, which doesn't carry that many RPG lines. Even so, they tend to have the Player's Handbook from the AD&D Second Edition Reprint, D&D 3.5 Reprint, D&D Fourth Edition, and D&D Fifth Edition all on the same...

I also want some independent adventures, but they don't need to be separate products. I'd be more than happy with hardbound collections of adventures.

I don't specifically desire Dungeon and Dragon in print, or even two separate products. I just want there to be a place for regular and varied content from a wide variety of authors. Ultimately, I'd prefer a monthly 96 or 128 page softcover book that includes a wide variety of content.

Ultimately, because I don't want to. I want an up to date and detailed set of books describing the setting as it is now, in addition to how it was. I like canon. And I'm not looking for 3E style support either. I can't follow that. What I want is something like a two or three volume set that...

I also want a detail rich, definitive Forgotten Realms product or set of products. Give me a thousand pages of detail spread across multiple volumes. Let Greyhawk be low-detail, with one book or boxed set covering the setting.

I ended up using a rollout battle map, but I only mapped the area around the Black Spider's room, using Theater of the Mind for the rest.. Looking at the map, I quickly realized that the actual "mine" portion was absurdly small, and decided to treat the map as only a vague representation of the...

At 94%, that's only 19/20. Without a feat or class feature, it's not a critical hit. :)

In the given situation, I'd probably rule that the archers get to go first, as if they'd readied an action, and that the PCs are only allowed to respond to the threat that they knew about during that round. It's within the spirit of the surprise rules, and it works for creatures that join...

Due to the description of the Star Cavern, I assume it's a gem mine.