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-2.5 in attack is often closer to -25% chance to hit than -12.5%. Example: +6 attack vs 15 AC = hit 10 out 20 times. If you have +3.5 attack vs 15 AC = hit 7.5 out of 20 times. You're only hitting 75% as often! For the -5 to hit/ +10 damage to be good, you are at break-even if the attack...

Actually, my point about flatter math isn't that it's easier to calculate to-hit/defenses, that's just arithmetic, just as you say. My point was that you can use a wider range of monsters. In 3e, the to-hit/defenses scale pretty steeply, so you want to avoid using low level monsters because they...

Got a mail from amazon, I can expect to have the book delivered by January 13th. That's what you get when you are a cheap ass! :D I just love the art in 5e btw, it really reminds me of the art from AD&D 2e who until now had the best D&D art.

I have only tried low-level 5e, but from what I have read, I think going from 3e to 5e will mostly seem like an upgrade. I played several campaigns that ended at 11th, 12th and 18th level and all of them struggled with combat speed/buff time. 5e looks to handle this quite a lot better. You also...

I like your review style! :)

I have just run my three first D&D 5e sessions. Firstly, explaining the rules to old D&D players is really easy. It works just as before, except that you can't 5' step, you have to use the withdraw action. Running the game is a breeze. Most enemies go down in one or two hits at level 1...

My suggestion: a) drop big box*, keep two-column format b) keep big box, switch back to old one-column format. Btw, maybe removing the "xxxx/yyyy views" text on each article. It basically just clutters the front page taking up space, pushing news further down. *The one with 7 news item in it.

I think getting your dex up to 18 is the best use of the level 4 feature. +1 to hit, damage, AC, Dex save, initiative and a bunch of skills is pretty darned good. If you have 17 starting dex, you could take the Resilient feat for +1dex and proficiency with dex saves, or +2 to dex, or +1 to dex...

It's the same version as when you first tested. In other words, they just haven't deployed a new version yet. I still think it's months before they are done though. ;)

Make your pit-trap look like a nice stretch of road. Make it look like there is a small bridge over the stream. Make it look like the entrance to the house is boarded up. Make a wall behind you in the alley as you run on. Make the noise of a cavalry charge around the corner. (Minor illusion)...

Mistwell I hope you got the answers you wanted here, I found a lot of the suggestions and thoughts to be good. I think that allowing delaying in a surprise round makes perfect sense. Delaying in a the first round probably works ok, but feels a bit funny, while delaying in later rounds really...

I think it will make more sense in 5e, especially when it comes to the orcs. I am going to run the 4e version, but that's because I think the current characters in the campaign are so cool in 4e ;-)

Haven't got the book available, but wouldn't that be 5x5 squares? (Because of reach)

I usually run premade modules, and I think you are right. It's easier to add your own stuff if the module is easy to comprehend. I do think that some effort is needed outside normal gameplay, otherwise you very quickly end up in the position of the OP.

5e is still in the starting pit. I haven't gotten the MM yet, and the DMG isn't even published. I am a pretty happy 4e player and am going to start up my first 5e game in the next two weeks. It's basically going to be a test-run of the system in our thursday night game.

Then I don't think D&D is the game for you, because it's really far away for being a simulation. HP for instance, makes little sense.

I assume you do that by houseruling it?

Depends on the terrain. Typically pre made modules assumes encounters start much too close. Try to vary the encounter distance to let different characters shine.

Someone at Wizards are going: "doh" now, like in, "why didn't we think of this". :D