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My current D&D game of choice is 4e (although I far prefer Dungeon World). There are things to learn from other games, and I think I understand RPGs as a whole better from playing them. After 10 years or so playing just D&D (yeah, I was one of those guys!) I started to look at other systems. I...

This is why I said communication is the absolute most important thing. I'm not saying that any perceived problems shouldn't be brought up. They should. Then the WotC people can comment on the problems, and a discussion about their intentions can lead to answers. If they find that their...

But, when the spirit of the rule is obvious, and the rule is open to interpretation, why must a detailed reading be necessary, or even desired by some? Especially if one way to read it is disliked by someone, what point does it make to argue semantics when it is easier to just take the reading...

Aasimar are planetouched humanoids, with ancestry of some kind of upper planar being either directly or over generations. They're mortal creatures that are born and die like any other. They share this with tieflings and genasi, as a "half" or less ancestry with some kind of planar being. Devas...

In my mind, there's a difference between lazy design and designing for real people playing real games. It seems like a lot of posts on ENWorld come from a theorycrafting mindset and not a real world mindset. There's a disconnect I'm seeing between the way people actually play games, and the way...

Personally, I think the spirit of the rules is by far more important than the letter of them. Others disagree. ENWorld was pretty heavily centered around RAW back in the day, with the Rules forums devoted pretty strongly to finding RAW interpretations. Even when that RAW was silly, people would...

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Dear Reader, I see you're about to write something about Second Wind. Please reconsider! There are several other threads where you can debate this to your heart's content. Please let at least one thread on ENWorld go untainted by this debate. I appreciate the restraint that you are showing by...

Can you not suspend belief when reading a book? When watching a movie? Because, those are all determined by fiat.

Yep. Like I said, big ol' grain of salt. It was a second hand, a friend of a playtester, thing. I just really hope its right, because I would love that.

So, I play World of Warcraft. The WoW devs are pretty open about development and player incentives and all that good stuff that comes part and parcel for MMOs. And, one of the things they note is that many players of their game will do things that they absolutely hate for even a slight...

It was feigned anger. Somebody had put fighter levels on an ogre and, it sounded like, killed Mearls's character. This is typical player banter to me.

From what I have read online (so grain of salt time!), +3 weapons will be reserved for artifact level items.

Unearthed Arcana had a V/WP system that made it into OGC. You can see it on d20SRD.

Please consider this. There are basically two different types of players arguing here. There are those who see the rules as a kind of world simulation. The PCs observe the simulation and act according to those rules. Then there are the players who see the rules as a way to figure out what...

If multiple threads on ENWorld keeps devolving into this beaten horse over and over again, this message board is going to be one of the worst sources of 5e information on the Internet. This is really getting out of hand, and it's really quite pathetic that a few (maybe 4 TOTAL) people constantly...

Over on reddit, I see posts (sometimes a few a week) from new RPGers looking to enter the hobby. The majority seem to be coming either from a video game or a free form forum-based roleplaying background, and I can say with some certainty that they are very open to many ideas and ways to play...

I find this really worrying, because I don't know that I could really run 4e without the DDI. Okay, okay, I could. But, it would be quite a bit more cumbersome. I seriously don't think it would be worth it...

Not D&D. It's too cumbersome for 2 hours for me. I'd go with Dungeon World. You can make characters in 5 minutes and you can get a ton done in a 2 hour session. In my last Dungeon World game, it went 1.5 hours. I did character creation with newbies to the system, did an intro fight vs. a giant...

Generally, in my experience at least, players know what kind of game they're getting into before they start playing. I don't think you'd be going in blind, and if it was likely that you'd have gauntlets of ogre power, it wouldn't be a leap to go with a 14 STR / 20 CHA to lower "waste." Even...