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Make sure you are using the 5e PHB with the 5e MM. Best not to compare between versions.

So much this!

The MM is a DM's toolbox. It should spark imagination and insight. I think this new MM does so very well. Reading through a DM will see these lore blurbs and be like... "Wow! They can fight this guy now, and later... they'll see these other guys using them as slaves and be like, 'holy hell...

5E handles death and taxes pretty well. I dont usually like to impose any penalties for dying. Paying for the costs, scrolls, casting etc, plus time away from the story is penalty enough. Characters that tend to die frequently get left behind. If one was going to impose a death tax, I would...

Ive played in plenty of games where the character did the right thing and died to either a save or suck spell, bad rolling, or an untimely crit. Not everything is player choice.

The introductory Adventure path to 5E is based around the Rise of Tiamat... I doubt they will destroy a god at 15th lvl but it I like that they are dealing with iconics in this way. So Tiamat stirs up her dragons... what will follow to stir up dungeons?

Maybe award (Party # x Quest Giver CR XP). So for instance an NPC gives a party of 4 a quest to retrieve an heirloom. Aside from the XP for things they kill, returning said heirloom grants the party 200XP each (4 x 1/4CR XP of 50xp). In this way a Grand Visiers quest is still worth more in...

Teaching someone how to DM is like teaching someone how to be a stand up comic. You can give them the tools of the trade, and show them how its done and how everyone else does it, but until they find their own audience relationship, their own candor, their own style, they are just poorly...

High AC is old edition thinking. Its all about the HP now.

Which ones in particular?

Ive played entirely though Lost Mines and ive made 3 "players for life" out of it. They love it, I love it. And ive even converted some older players from PFRPG to 5e based on 1 session. Its quick. Its fun. Its simple but deep. The bounded accuracy works. Yes it creates a slobbernocker style...

Specifics please, else this is trollmongering.

One would expect this be a free app with the in-app purchases covering the cost. Since the free version would cover the free pdfs, its a good model to get people using it.

Sorcerers are innate magic users, it comes from within. They are not learned or trained. It could be an interesting concept to explore that no matter how much he tries to "control" and learn magic, he has an innate ability to create it that exceeds even the teachers at the guild. He could be...

Mearls has stated that animal companions in previous editions got out of hand. Basically added to action economy of adding another character to the group. We see what basic CR1/4 creatures can do, and in the bounded system you want to give a player the capability of a complete equal character...

Quite probable. With PHB being purchasable out of the gate. I wonder if that means next week the MM will be purchasable in app as well?

I agree 100% with everything you said, just not the terminology of 'exploit'. It is in all how a group likes to play. Personally, I dont like being a player in a game where the DM stacks death against you unfairly (wounds/low regen/etc). It alters the core balance of the system. I prefer a...

The two primary reasons players become DMs. Great DMs Horrible DMs

Glad you clarified 5E. :D

And if they were available we'd be complaining about shelling out $100 for the books. And if they were available we'd have waited another six months and been complaining about the wait. I think its sort of ridiculous to chastise a company for not putting out a product that tells you how to be...