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I really wish they started offering some sets with 2d20's.

There's also a portion of us not-so-casual gamers, however small, that really enjoy playing characters that are straightforward (at least on paper). None of the 5e classes are too complex for me, to put it mildly. One of my favorite classes is the wizard and even it is not at all challenging...

Wait, the Champion is more than twice as popular as the Battle Master !?! And the Berserker is more than twice as popular as the Totem!?! Am I reading that right? This whole situation where I don't feel like myself and those I play with are complete outliers is getting weird.

More situational, and different enough that it isn't possible to objectively compare the two wholesale, only on certain aspects.

IIRC though, those eagles wouldn't function in any sort of combat situation (most 4e rituals are at the very least difficult to use in combat). So, not objectively superior, but for travel obviously much better.

The "countdown" isn't the best way IME, it certainly isn't the fastest. You can just go around the table and get everyone's initiative in order. If using P&P (almost always for me) then all you need is a standard sheet of paper or a tall/skinny notepad. If someone rolls high they go near the...

Tried a variety, ended up coming back to using RAW initiative in 5e almost all the time. Just didn't gain much from more "realistic" or "interesting" rules and found the default to be the least problematic, easy to grok for new players too.

If you are only going to run for 2-3 players, and are an experienced GM, I would advise to at least consider taking care of the math and most of the rules for them. I have done this a ton over the years and it really doesn't seem to detract much for most new players, and often adds to the...

My go to for role-filling these days is the bard, so probably bard plus... dunno probably not a weak spellcaster.

Not sure what you think was inaccurate. Don't get me wrong, Ebooks are a massive market but they had a boom some years ago and have seen large to moderate declines since then (although the numbers are harder to pin down due to more "indie" publishing). A lot of people have made a fortune on...

Your google-fu is fine, I think maybe OB1 is working with some out of date info. Quite a few years back E-books boomed and physical books were in decline, shortly there after E-books crashed very hard and physical books have been increasing for at least 5 years IIRC. Paper prices are going up...

Now there's the Capn I know; mis-characterization, accusations, use of words like "Objectively" in an objectively incorrect way, general disdain for anyone who disagrees with them. You can have knowledge in advance of which saves to prop up, even though many resources don't care which one they...

Yeah, it's pretty minor, but sometimes rather than the RAW; 1 source of advantage cancels out multiple sources of disadvantage (or vice versa) we play where it doesn't. It could slow play down with certain players and doesn't come up too much but there are occasions it "makes more sense". Both...

When this has come up in the past there seemed to be a lot of people house-ruling to one degree or another, in fact my impression was that the 5e community is about as accepting of houserules as any edition overall. I think I have seen more pushback to your proposed rules in this thread and...

Sorry if this is a bit tangential but if you are new to 5e and thinking about tweaking things, I would just say ranged combat is really good. Maybe you are considering nerfing it, which I don't find necessary, but a boost would be more worrisome to me. There are things that are not necessarily...

The spell cards might make that a bit redundant, they are super useful IME.

I started with Basic (which I still love), and I have to say the list of things in it and AD&D that don't "make sense" unless you squint pretty hard is... not short. If you can get past all of those I really doubt you would have trouble getting past similar things in 5e, if you approach it with...

Is "huge" even adequate to describe the amount of time wastage here? We are talking many seconds people! ;) Instead of Wotc designers forgetting things, I think it's a lot of people conveniently forgetting the myriad of ways high level players can help their saves: Bardic Inspiration...

Some times I worry about the wider community, I have seen this spell pass the 12 y.o test with flying colours...

A "tutorial" might have a few definitions, but one would have to stretch to find one that covers the first few levels of D&D. There were however things that very much approached "tutorial" in some earlier editions/products. The first few levels are designed for ease of entry, sure, but that...