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Absolutely. It's quite impressive Barbie manages to get away with as many of the points that it does. But Barbie and Oppenheimer just compete in different weight classes. And that's not a knock on Barbie in any way.

That's a valid point, but it isn't by virtue of 5e being a good game to DM - it's by virtue of 5e being a very easy game to find a group for due to its popularity. So it really doesn't say anything about whether learning how to DM through 5e's sourcebooks give you the necessary tools to become a...

Ehhh, I'll disagree with you there. 5e is absolutely designed with love and care and can be used (and was designed to be used by its design team) to run fantastic campaigns. They just assumed the DMs would be folk who already know how to DM from earlier editions and that most of the important...

Absolutely it has some heavy themes. But my friends and I thought it fumbles its execution sometimes - some ideas are really well and subtly presented, like But other times the ideas are very shallowly presented and the way they're said really ruins their potential. Like In contrast, I...

I actually think the opposite is true: 5E is terrible for learning how to start your own campaigns. The 5E DMG tells you little to nothing about how to populate your world if you want to go simulationist. It tells you practically nothing about how to improvise a plot structure if you want to be...

Oh. Well, that doesn't really sound balanced, no. I'm never a fan of "everyone gets a +5 bonus to ALL saves!" approach (I think it's busted on Paladins/Heralds as well). Coupling that with an ever-increasing range, use limit tied to a 5/short rest resource and most features becoming...

I think Barbie was a great movie, don't get me wrong. But it doesn't compare to Oppenheimer in terms of the heaviness in any simple way.

I feel you. I think persistance is the only way out. Even when I seem to get a group that can meet regularly, it takes a while before the group forms properly, with some people leaving and others joining. My both long-term campaigns ended up being like ships of Theseus, with so many members of...

Did the double feature as well. I have some political opinions about the Barbie movie but this isn't the avenue for them (I just wish Americans thought there were political options besides going to the polls). Oppenheimer was great, cinematographically speaking it blows you away (heh), and I...

I'm guessing they take the same "narrative" time in Clint's approach, in other words "as long as a breather seems fitting at that story moment". I'm not sure if that's a good approach, but I can respect it. I think 13th Age has a similar, narrative approach to resting: Long Rests don't...

Oh yeah, Level 3 would become the new Level 1 with what I'm proposing. And the whole debate about modularity had its own thread waaay before, but I still wish it were possible...

I like BIFTs as a concept, and even attempted to add back the "push" aspect to them via houserule, but admittedly they are hardly used in most games. When I'm creating characters, I like having them as seeds to give me an idea about what to play. I like them as a DM since they give me plot hooks...

I know this thread is necro'd, but your point about early level lethality being antithetical to their purpose as tutorial levels got me thinking @EzekielRaiden . Having run a campaign that lasted from Level 1 to 17, I can definitely say that my players were in more in life-threatening situations...

Huh, I had never considered this, and this seems like a pretty serious issue. On the fact of it, the Bard has a lot of fun ideas (and I was thrilled when I saw that doing bard stuff besides singing got some coverage through the art specialties), but I had never checked if the game truly supports...

So, I know that A5E classes is usually fairly compatible with their O5E subclasses, and for subclasses that exist in both games, the A5E version usually works better because it is designed for this game specifically. But one area where I'm rather disappointed is the subclass options for...

It's probably there to stop numerical workarounds to word filters, like making your name 80085.

I think this is a key point about 5e Short Rests that people who want to reduce it to a 1/encounter use limit often miss. The game doesn't expect you to take a short rest after every encounter. It expects you to take 2 per day. For 5e's stated encounter math, that means you take a rest every 2...

Which is pretty ironic considering how the game's 90s edgy full of itself tone and in-lore disdain for the "clueless" is ultimately yet another interpretation of the game that isn't the end all be all. I love Planescape, but it certainly flattens so many planes and settings that do better with a...

Well, in 5e it kind of does work that way for NPCs. Monster hit die size is determined by size (Tiny creatures have d4 hit dice, Small d6, Medium d8, Large d8 and so on), but the actual amount of HP you get is completely separate and scales off of CR.

Yes it is. DMG p67.