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And I think this is where it bounced off me, and eventually, my players. When the players are saying "Don't use fireball, just use your cantrips. Save the fireballs for the boss later!", then the encounters aren't doing what they're designed to do. Meagre damage behind big blobs of hit points...

Sounds about right. The campaign I ran was up to 6th level, and there was a Twilight Cleric/sorcerer, a rogue/warlock (devil sight, darkness, invisible scouting familiar), evoker fire wizard, cleric of something (sacred flame/spirit guardians/spiritual hammer), and an arcane archer. i had to...

I have trouble challenging my PC's in 5e. CR as an effective measure of "threat" is useless overall. Every time I draw up an encounter, I either have a cakewalk by the PC's, or a TPK. There doesn't seem to be a comfortable middle ground without mucking behind the scenes during the encounter...

Usually it’s one or two players who are vocal about it. “You should take X or Y“, based on what is going on in the campaign, what they have already encountered, etc. The reaction of the Wizard usually depends on how experienced they are with the class - sometimes they’ll be like “okay, I’ll...

As a DM, I, 1) don’t like systems where the Wizard gets to ‘just get’ new spells at their next level. Especially after like two days of “adventuring” out in the wild, where they are supposedly ‘experimenting’ and ‘studying’ and just, voila, know two new spells at level two. I’m fine with...

Check out Beyond The Wall and Other Adventures by Flatland Games It’s an OSR style rule set that has Cantrips (spammable, but with an ability roll), Spells (reliable), and Rituals. All the really powerful stuff are rituals, but take an hour per ritual level to cast. I’m using this system in...

Your table/rules = your table/rules. Other tables/rules =/= your table/rules. Your experience is not universal, no matter how often you claim it is. Nor is your way necessarily better. All I will say is your experience is not my experience, and I’ll agree to disagree.

I use Beyond’s spell system and their playbooks (modified and made a little more generic) in OSE Advanced. We’re playing it now and it’s working well. Happy to discuss in PM. I have the Shadowdark free rules pdf, and like others have mentioned, this would be a toolbox for me to poke around in...

Sure I can. He took his turn (quickly), then went to walk his dog, and when he returned, it still had not come back to his turn. That’s on the system and the players (and these are not “new” players). 5e “can” be faster, but all the buttons and levers and abilities and such make it harder to...

@Flamestrike I won’t disagree with your commentary, I was only counterpointing the question of how a combat in 5e can take more than 15 minutes. We had one player in our 5e game walk his dog, literally, before his turn came back around. Sure, there are things that can be done, but I’d rather...

Like this: You: As you walk out of the forest, the (CR10 monster) attacks. It's 60' away, 40' up and swooping down from the air. Roll initiative. (Dice rolled, order sorted out). Player: I roll a 7. Oh wait, let me check my Dex bonus. Its...um... +2, to I have a 9. Hold on, I have a feat...

Read Magic as a way to read other wizard’s spellbooks or to read scrolls (in prep to copy them into your spellbook) always made sense to me as a Wizard. A scribe spell made less sense, unless you wanted to include it as part of the scroll creation process, but it was still odd. The whole point...

I didn’t watch the entire credits, but at one point it said “Based on DND by Hasbro” or something to that effect, which I took to be technically correct. The DND movie I watched was based on 5e, which Hasbro did “create”. I didn’t feel like they were claiming they created the entirety of...

For me, Basic/Old School Essentials - lower HP all around (fighters get d8 HD), and each character gets 1 action per combat round. And since you’re not having to constantly push the buttons and pull the levers of your character sheet to figure out what to do, turns go quick. Coupled with...

Maybe I'm missing something, but what you put in spoilers as a description of play sounds like just about every game of DnD (from Basic to 5e) that our table has ever played. I don't see anything in there that isn't supported or available to every table, just by...playing? The DM, in my...

I’LoL throw in the suggestion of Beyond the Wall And Other Adventures. It’s old school dnd, but has some of the modern conveniences (ascending Ac), as well as great playbooks for CharOp. Also, magic is fairly low level in comparison to 5e.

I don't know if I'm that interested in 'collaborative fiction writing" as it might apply to RPG's. I find that I have to really work at being creative when I DM. I tend to overorganize, always look for that next cool thing, do too much research and grab too many resources, and then blank when...

True, using the rules as written. However, people don't all use the rules as they're presented, and I'd argue, more often than not, homebrew or use hacks to get the experience that they want. In my game, you can't take fifteen sword blows with no ill effect, because HPs aren't as high. And I...

For books and dice, nope. Those fall to individuals, though we might buy a DM sourcebook (oldschool) for the DM for a birthday or similar. We didn't do terrain, just a chessex map. For miniatures, the DM buys the monsters, the players buy their characters (usually). For snacks, that's usually...

Agreed. If I was going to use some kind of Cavalier in 5e, I'd put some of those abilities into the background of the character (as part of Noble, Soldier, or create a background with a riding focus). I primarily run OSE now, and there is a Knight class in the Advanced rules, and that comes...