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My next party is going to end up starting Project Mayhem ... which honestly isn't that different than usual, just I can make the movie reference

While I didn't know all the players involved, I did understand all the Baseball stats. shudder This is where the fact that I did the bulk of my DnDing during 4e conflicts with my understanding of how players optimize. I played a few 3.5 campaigns, had a bad time trying to DM, so it was 4e and...

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My experience was this got better when they rebalanced monster math. MM3, Dark Sun and Monster Vault monsters were much better than earlier 4e monsters. And sure, I'd say you have to up the monsters as PCs go up in tiers, but at least it was fairly intuitive and granular enough to allow for easy...

4e was so clean. X PCs of Y level get medium encounter out of X monsters of Y level ...

As much as I'm impatient to have these books in hand ... I don't see myself starting a campaign until I have the full set anyway ...

My take is that I don't mind Section 31 existing, I have a problem with them being right. So as long as the Section 31 film is a fun romp and doesn't make the point that "we need hard people doing immoral stuff so the rest can live in peace and this is objectively correct." then I'm in for more...

I can't recall where I heard/read this, but it's something that has stuck in my brain, an XP system should also take inspiration from video game Achievements. IE, doing something wacky or out of the box could warrant XP. Obviously, not completely, achievements are more to encourage multiple...

I use milestone leveling, but I've debated going back to XP. Now, I would probably be a lot chonkier with my XP, ie, use smaller numbers. Like, ideally it takes 20-50 XP to level up. Gain 1 for defeating a difficult encounter, Gain 1 for reaching a plot milestone, 1 for a Character milestone. I...

I don't mind blood, but I do tend to draw the line and more visceral violence in my DnD. Kill Bill Vol1, Oren's execution of the Yakuza boss and the big fight between the Crazy 88, for example, is fun and within bounds. Invincible, otoh, Omni-Man shredding his fellow Superheroes, is a bit much...

Yeah, with the assumption that if a player really wanted to swap out a stat upgrade or otherwise customize a background, I'd allow it as a DM. These are starting points to me, and if they fit as written, great, if not, ask and we'll change it.

I guess this practically calls for the reintroduction of Tom Bombadill

Oh, all this work because some crankiness over Divine Smite becoming a spell? Yeah, back to my initial comment, the juice is definitely not worth the squeeze. I don't even agree that the wheel is broken.

Then in general, I'd suggest that patrons and questgivers should feel like they are positioning themselves towards a potential conflict. The dwarf that hires the team to find a priceless Elven relic wants it because they can sell it to one of the militaristic factions within the Wood Elven...

This is fair, I just don't see the point in reinventing a wheel just because. But I also think this is something that is better for a PH2 sorta thing. Give me more exotic classes and I'd be annoyed if they were also spellcasters. Summoners, wouldn't necessarily give them spell slots. Warlords...

To be bluntly honest, yes, Paladins have had a close relationship to Clerics, so having them both be casters is a piece of mechanical symmetry that I like. It's why they also share Channel Divinity, it strengthens their common bond as wielders of divine magic. And I don't agree that this is a...

Without actually throwing them into a skirmish, some ideas: Having them encounter refugees moving out of border areas. Merchants increasing prices of weapons and healing potions as they are getting bought up by stockpilers Running into mercenary companies marching towards the conflict zones...

So are you advocating removing all spellcasting from the Paladin to tack on some smite point system? I've gone from "juice probably not worth the squeeze" to "hard pass".

I highly dislike using Constitution as a casting stat. Tried it playing the Battlemind in 4e and I've come to the conclusion that Constitution is a defensive stat and shouldn't be used for attacking or spellcasting. Player Characters are already heavily motivated to have a decent Constitution...

Conceivably for like a Dark Sun campaign, but not in general. If this is mainly about wanting to stop the process of waiting to heal a PC until they get dropped, then may I suggest instead BG3 house rule of losing one's action the turn after being revived?