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Echoed. That said, the opening - the actual murder, the fight in the marketplace with random events, all that? Fantastic one shot and great introduction to 5E. The rest of the larger mod is awful, for a variety of reasons including pacing and lack of investment. My group started off excited to...

Yes, the game is decidedly better off with the spell not being used. Perfect, considering none of your examination included examining the fact that its effects last a full week, rather than just a few rounds. And, yeah, the fact that it doesn't let you know if the spell is contagious (but, well...

Correct indeed. It's a shame that the spell makes no mention of infection or incubation, as previous edition's versions of contagion did. It's additionally a shame that the spell is some mix of badly designed and explained. Thankfully, it's simplicity itself to ignore a spell or rule in the...

We have literally no rules for handling diseases. Namely, we don't know whether the concept of affliction, incubation, and then true harmful effects exist. Given the week duration on the spell, there's no reason to think it has to take full effect immediately (diseases often incubate), until we...

I wonder how a more real-world approach to plunder, taxation, WMDs (weapons of magical destruction) etc would fly in D&D. Stuff like a nation says that any magic items recovered in its borders are owned by the nation, cannot be sold or transferred, and may be subject to reclamation if misused...

Confirmed. The worst part for me as a DM was needing a disjunction style effect to reign in the PCs - the cleric, for example, had 23 or so sticky notes for the buffs he had on at the time - while also not wanting to do anything at all with magic items. Not only did the magic items suck to...

If it's required to pay to unlock book content live, then it's likely you need to pay to unlock book content in beta. It's the same content regardless (which isn't freely available except the Basic rules, which I hope are free), and it's probably even a licensing requirement to require payment...

Not easier, no. Diminishing returns, absolutely. It is very easy for hordes of melee-centric monsters to die without getting in an effective attack. If you haven't done higher level 5E (or every other E of D&D, really) and seen what happens when 40 very weak foes meet a party with the...

No, that's just hyperbole. The only characters that use disengage aggressively are rogues who use it (via Cunning Action) to spring attack across short distances or to get past a front line to a back line caster. Which are all appropriate and reasonable uses. The action cost makes it not useful...

I really want some sort of very simple online computer game for learning how to play, then run D&D. It can be simple, that's fine. I was recently checking out cardhunter - which is a tongue in cheek card-based version of D&D that has little bits poking fun at D&D - and I realized that in many...

Math problems is generally what I do on my breaks/rests, weirdly enough. It doesn't invalidate the point, but there's really nothing in the rules that suggests a rest breaks concentration whereas there is strong anecdotal evidence (look at those long durations) that concentration is intended to...

It's certainly possible to rule that way, but since they are unaware of their surroundings in their trance, they would be unable to take reactions or actions (interesting that surprised and incapacitated have near identical results in this edition), so a shield spell would be tougher.

That actually often isn't true. If your party deals 10 damage per round, then the single monster gets off 4 attacks before it dies, whereas the two monsters get off 3. If your party has _any_ area effect in it, even down to a simple burning hands spell, then a single attack can take out the...

Fwiw, you don't need to be unconscious to be incapacitated in 5E. Based on the description of the Elven Trance in the book, I'd consider an elf in trance to be incapacitated, much like a stunned creature. They're not fully conscious (definition of semi-conscious), nor fully aware of their...

Games like the Neverwinter computer game, the Ravenloft board game, and even Inn Fighting card game are ways to introduce people to D&D. The truly dedicated, the number crunchers, the folks who ilke reading 500-page tomes are the ones who survive on into the tabletop hobby. D&D tabletop, as...

Seems reasonable for its CR, avoids silly arguments. Opens up an option for those in the group with nonmagical stuff to flee while the one guy with a magic item steps up to cope. Sure. People can make a high level version that affects magic, or make it a more unique effect, but seems like a...

Ogres don't really have ways of charging through back lines unless it's a wide open field (ie, the PCs have not controlled the fight), nor of coping with mass difficult terrain (such as from spell effects), or status effects. Sorry, I'm confusing the issue by referring to Body Thief, not Devour...

Except that's what we're already doing, by doing the "if there's more, multiply it" In _most_ cases, my experience has been that the XP should scale linearly -or- it should actually be considered easier. At higher levels, it's really easy to kill hordes of creatures, use spells or environment...

Concentrate through a short rest, not through a long rest makes sense to me. Also, Mearls is wrong about Hex; he might be thinking of an older version, not realize it has added duration at higher level, or any number of things.

Or you could just assign them an initiative order (at start of combat or as soon as the group is slept); then they could cheerfully go wake up the one with the highest initiative order, have it wake up the next, etc. It is entirely possible for it to not work, of course - if the lowest init...