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Fair enough, tone doesn't always come thru properly in text, and it seemed like a serious critique since that inevitably happens repeatedly in every single thread where anyone posts anything about 5e. It's hard to not be annoyed at how acceptable it is to threadcrap on any discussion about 5e...

My bad I guess I should've quoted that person then :)

There's nothing complicated here it is just a Level 20 Fighter with a Greataxe and a contrived scenario with multiple enemies lined up like bowling pins. The only "complicated" part is you need a friend to cast Haste on you, but that's just outside help, not part of the character build. It's...

Why do people go into a threads labeled as D&D 2024 to post nothing helpful except that they prefer other games or editions that no one here is talking about? Shouldn't you go post in threads about whatever edition you enjoy instead of putting others down for liking something that isn't what...

No one is talking about using Mage Hand to disarm traps or pick locks, we're talking about Mage Hand purposely blowing up traps since it can't take damage. This isn't always wise, if blowing the trap would destroy something valuable. Also as noted by someone above, it's not particularly...

Why would a village be only humans though? Surely Tabaxis, Orcs, Elves, Firlbogs, and Fairies would live in villages too and have the same tie to saving a village as Human PCs would Anyways that's unrelated to the point of the thread and I only ask since it looks like you got some good...

You can bump that up by 3 with Echo Knight's Unleash Incarnation

100%. Personally I hate traps and think they're boring gameplay best left in the 80's, but it's still a legitimate playstyle for tables who enjoy old school nitty gritty dungeon crawling, and Mage Hand completely negates that aspect of gameplay. Sure the DM can be "creative" and make...

Totally agree with all these points. Limiting cantrip casts per day just adds needless stuff for players to track and probably doesn't even address whatever the perceived issue is with them in the first place If you want to run gritty realism DnD but certain cantrips (plus low level spells)...

Gotta be Hunter's Mark am I right?

Thread already has a bunch of helpful plot ideas, I have nothing better to add but I am super curious how motivating human characters somehow differs from motivating a party of non-human characters. Every DnD party I've ever seen was mostly non-human PCs and I've never seen any adjustments to...

Yeah same, I frequently use the environment to do similar effects to some of his examples, but I really love how he just simplifies it as "Boss starts the thing at end of his turn, resolves the thing at beginning of his turn, PCs figure it out or get hit". Makes the design much easier for the...

I just use the 5.5e Rules As Written for holding and swapping objects in your hands. They are rather lenient if you are just trying to do something remotely realistic like switch weapons in combat, but they do prevent obviously silly stuff like your examples of climbing with a greatsword in...

5e has strict* rules on what can be held and swapped in your hands during combat. *Strictly defined anyways - they are rather lenient in terms of how many weapon swaps you can do in a turn, but the rules are at least clearly defined I'm not familiar with older editions, but I'd say start with...

I'm wondering this myself but then it also explains why they released it when it was glitchy, poorly documented, and obviously nowhere near ready to be used by anyone who wasn't already a master at using similar VTT's. The release seemed to go really poorly (at least from what I could tell)...

Good question - I don't track them at all so I'm sort of talking hypothetically there. I would think though that by strict Rules As Written you would need to pay gold for mundane items, track them on your character sheet, include them in encumbrance calculations, etc. If any thought or...

Definitely a valid concern, but I think it'll be tough to find a slope more slippery than low level magical spells and cantrips that completely negate the need for just about any adventuring equipment to solve problems. Eliminating the need to track mundane items gives Martial characters a...

Magical ammunition, yes. Regular ammunition, absolutely not. Same with rations, rope, basically any non-magical adventuring equipment - if your character probably would've thought to bring it then just say you have it without tracking anything.

The point of the "on call" players is you find the type of people who would like to play DnD, have the schedule availability that they generally could play most weeks, but they don't want to commit every Saturday (or whatever day) do playing DnD. So now they're able to be a full-time member of...

This is an awesome breakdown and almost perfectly mirrors what I was attempting to do in my latest group although I didn't think thru the logistics are thoroughly as you lay out here. I was aiming for a 7+1 with a min table size of 4, but never found any reliable "on call" folks, and only 2 of...