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Earlier we usually pulled up books and checked the rules during the game, but that's just slowing down the game. We ended up saying that it's ok to play with an ad-hoc ruling for a session just to keep the game moving*. We would check the rules afterwards so that the next time, we knew the...

Sounds familiar. I have played in a group with all engineers too. Not really a problem. Technical difficulties is there to be overcome. At the same time, this more or less illustrates the problems with 3e, and how 5e hopefully has managed to fix the problem so the game works well at a table with...

That's ok, we also don't allow books at the table. If something comes up, the dm makes a decision and we check it in a break or after the game.

Yeah, I see what you mean. Just go for option 3, it's pretty close.

I noticed that 3.5 was broken when the seven strong party with two clerics and two wizards needed 30+ minutes to sort out the daily buff spells at level 12+. In combat you would usually have 2-3 additional "temporary" buff spells running as well. This meant you basically had to re-calculate...

I am running a 4e game with uniformly optimized characters. We agreed to make strong* characters that weighted offense before defense and pure damage before control. This has made combat fast, and easy to run for me as a DM. The only thing slowing it down is the darned 4e monsters that have...

I just pre-ordered the Starter Set, PHB, DMG and MM. The prices were really good, 111$ total +30$ in (sloooow) shipping. I also think that the rule set itself is nice and concise, giving room for a lot of options and customizability for running my kind of game. It's actually the first edition I...

Did you even read the article? http://wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20140623

This looks like a Gnoll to me, not a goblinoid. Good drawing anyway. ;)

I really like this thread, and love the options that you put into it. With the options I selected you could run anything from a board-game like dungeon crawl, to a simulationist world building campaign. I think I might get half of what I want from the DMG, but have high hopes they will add splat...

For me, it's totally foreign to go to a physical location to transfer money. I would just use my banks web page. Why waste time getting to the bank? I can go months without using cash.

You are quite right, my argument didn't hold water. The level advancement in D&D doesn't really make much sense when you look at the time it takes to get from level 1 to 20. Depending on the campaign, it can easily be done in something like 2-3 months game time, at least in 4e: 4 encounters/day...

Something that's different can be an improvement. They aren't mutually exclusive. For instance using bar codes to identify goods at the food store instead of manually punching the individual prices is different AND an improvement.

(My emphasis) I look at 5e level 1 characters more 16-17 year olds who just ran away from home. It's what their stats reflect in my opinion. If you want more involved backstories/older characters, I think starting at level 3 makes a lot more sense. There is nothing in the rules that says you...

Great post! Anyway, I have always written my spells and powers on my character sheet in short-hand. Something like this: Command 60' 1+1/lvl, wis, 1rnd: approach, drop, flee, grovel, halt. You are going to use the spells a lot, so just having the basics written down is enough to remember the rest.

I find laptops and smartphones to be the biggest distraction. The laptop because it's so intuitive to multitask and it's something you are used to doing. The smartphone just has too many distractions. I find tablets to be less distracting because they are often used for media consumption, not...

Sure there is more or less user friendly ways of writing up spells*. I don't quite see how you can argue otherwise? If 4e or 5e's way of doing it more user friendly is something we don't know yet. *Just compare the 2e and 3e versions of the command spell. The 2e one is nearly completely...

I have the same opinion. I find it much easier to use two unrelated adventures and make them my own instead of trying to do the same with two adventures that are part of an adventure path. I really liked how Red Hand of Doom was made. You had several interesting locations in the same region...

The thing about 3e and 4e is that after the first few splat books which were interesting, I just stopped caring what they did with player options. For me, they had produced so many options I had gone back to basic. I actually only learnt about 4e essentials way after it was published when I...

I think your conclusion is right, but looking at 4e essentials as anything but a 4e is probably wrong. You can play a "normal" 4e character and a 4e essentials character in the same game and they are completely compatible. Just like different sets in Magic. Depending on how good 5e* is, I think...