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I played for a while before buying any books. I just asked the DM questions, and he answered them, and that encompassed my understanding of the rules. We didn't play often, but it was fun. In the meantime I wrote my own RPG to keep myself occupied when he wasn't available. Ah youth! It wasn't...

You gotta play the game to know if you like it, right? It's like reading reviews of MMOs where the person played in the newbie zone and wants to write a review. It's nice to look at pictures and see boards and popouts and all kinds of fun stuff, but you've got to play the game. Start to finish...

Link to D&D5e Basic PDF. Download it for free. Read it, and decide for yourself.

When a monster or beast is bearing down on you, and you're wondering if you're going to survive a fight, how much HP you recover after a good night's rest is less than relevant.

Wow, I've never run into anything like that before! I'll consider myself lucky. Once, I had a bunch of players who didn't put anything into the game, and one player who had tons of goals and ambitions. That player basically ran the game. Then, at one point, I introduced a plotline for an NPC to...

I realize it is just an example, and I don't want to pick it apart. Suffice to say, I'm of a GMing style where I get really excited about player ideas and work harder to integrate them into my games than my own ideas. I see everything I described as gritting and difficult, and completely...

I don't know... the idea of a PC resurrecting a good deity to end the corruption of false clergy sounds like an amazing plot hook to me. The GM wouldn't even really have to change anything about the campaign, as the game would pretty much end around when the PC achieved his goals. If the GM...

This quote, especially, I find quite interesting. For my own games, player integration in the game is of the utmost importance. And, I don't just mean fitting them into the campaign setting's metaplot. I mean, the PCs' places in the game are of central importance to actual gameplay, so it is...

The absolute worst offender is a certain boss NPC's statblock in Lost Mine of Phandelver which mentions a spell that, forget about being described in the statblock, isn't described in the Starter Set! Oops.

Interesting. For me, Divine Aid (saving throw + CHA, 1/encounter) is the go to Cleric 2 power worth drooling over. But, we see lots of save ends effects that are absolutely deadly and want to end right the heck now. Same goes for the warlord's power Shake It Off. We consider those must haves...

As a work-around you can both search and copy/paste freely from the printable PDF.

Really, all you need to do is to tell your players something like "In this game, there is no Great Wheel. I've created my own cosmology. You'll learn about it through play, so make no assumptions about any worlds beyond your own, and be sure to consult sages or do research before interacting...

@Ningauble @Morrus My confirmation email went to a junk folder when I signed up. Definitely check there.

Am I the only one who parses races in different settings as mostly separate entities? Statistically tieflings in 2e/4e/5e are very similar. The only real dis-similarities are origin story and physical description. I suppose the real problem is if some pre-existing setting information was...

Yeah, these are PCs I threw together a earlier this week, and I just threw them into this encounter. "Optimizing" for this encounter, for example: Protection Fighter would mean hobgoblins would have a really hard time taking out the cleric and rogue The Fighter could have then fought...

I just ran a test 400 XP encounter. I didn't use pregens, I used some PCs I created. They were not optimized. They consisted of: Hill Dwarf Fighter (Defense Style) wielding a Battleaxe (14 hp; 19 AC; +4 vs AC; 1d8+2 damage) Wood Elf Cleric wielding a Longsword and Longbow (8 hp; 18 AC; +4 vs...

I do always find it incredibly amusing when someone infringes on another's copyright and then turns around and claims copyright on the thing copied. This is a slight variation of that, where they claim that what they copied is not covered by copyright law (and I'd have to look over the site in...

I've got a pre-order, but if I see it in a store I will buy it and cancel the pre-order. Having it early is totally worth $8!

Think of the 1% problem as a shorthand for people doing things that they'd rather not do if they see benefit to it. Then, to take it a step further, they will do something that they hate in order to see a miniscule benefit, because they aren't good at judging the worth of the loss of fun vs. the...

As someone who played a fighter in a low-wealth a 3.0 game alongside a druid, I have to say that's the right call. My character was a sidekick. The druid's summons brought more to the table than I did. It also didn't help that I rolled nothing but 1s and 2s for HP for the entire game. Maybe...