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That makes sense. Clearly you are using the term 'skill challenge' in a more generic sense of 'there's an obstacle or situation for the PCs to resolve' rather than in the strict sense of Skill Challenge as outlined in the 4e core rules. The way you describe it sounds exactly like how I've been...

Agreed, however, it is important to be consistent or at least throw in some rolls even when there isn't a specific consequence, otherwise it becomes very hard to avoid player meta gaming. If you only call for rolls on some doors or some chests, then the players know that those are the special...

The limited ways to remove exhaustion are a major sticking point for the barbarian. The simple fact is that they have a very severe and artificial limit on a core ability. Frenzy more than once a day? Get ready to spend a week on bed or die! All other classes recover all abilities with a long...

Yes, however as a DM, be prepared to have your players ignore the time you spent coming up with a skill challenge and come up with their own, outside-the-box solution because their characters have a wide range of abilities that aren't specifically linked to combat. I'm not saying 'don't use...

Skill challenges made more sense in 4e where there weren't any 'non-encounter' abilities for characters. 5e has gone back to the prior editions in granting characters (primarily via spells, but also backgrounds and tool proficiency) with a much wider range of non-combat specific abilities...

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While I'm glad WotC is allowing the cartographers to sell high quality digital versions of the maps for published products, I find the price point for these pieces to be insane. The cost of purchasing a full set of maps for HotDQ adds up to $32.50 which is more than the MSRP of $29.99 for the...

Because many DMs don't use a static number of hp for each monster, but instead roll the hp individually using the HD. That way you end up with sine goblins that are tougher than others but still have most goblins around the average hp

There were rules for HD by size as well as adding in con mod. Also a prof bonus by CR table. What was lacking was a guide on # of HD by CR as well as guidance on base damage by CR, although looking at the monsters available it seems pretty straightdorward

I always interpreted the Legends and Lore article to be outlining Legendary and Lair as two separate things. Yes, Legendary monsters might also have a Lair, but a Lair is effectively a creature in its own right, imho. It wouldn't surprise me to see the Lair details outside of the monster...

While I agree that technically an online supplement for WotDQ is not an update to the Basic rules PDF, and thus the person responsible for Wizards_DnD tweets clearly made a mistake, calling them on it is simply picking nits. What they've said is that they would be providing more monsters and...

Necromancer isn't infringing on WotC trademarks or copyright in any way, so I don't see how they are at any risk either. You can't trademark 1d6 or terms like 'hit points', 'armor class' etc. There's nothing that actually makes what Necromancer is publishing actually 5e content. All they are...

There is no risk of a C&D and implying that is simply FUD.

There is no need for any sort of special license to publish 'compatible' adventures, supplements, etc. The only thing the OGL did was grant limited use to portions of the WotC trademarks and intellectual property. In other words, the OGL allowed 3rd party publishers to actually refer to...

Lots of new monsters in the HotDQ supplement. Very nice!

The person responsible for Wizards_DnD tweets woke up (ie: tweeted something) 37 minutes ago, so at least there are some signs of life :)

This is only correct due to the fact that PS3 and other game consoles will only run signed content, and you have to purchase a license from Sony to obtain a valid key. It is perfectly legal to create and sell a PS3 compatible piece of software without the key. However, only users who have...

Third parties have always been able to publish content that was compatible with rules systems published by someone else. Anyone who wants to can write up an original adventure, complete with monster statistics and story and publish it. There are several things they cannot do, however: 1. They...

Actually, from what folks have posted, HotDQ doesn't have very many stat blocks, but instead refers folks to the Basic Rules (another reason why I'm sure WotC is doing their best to get the updated Basic PDF out there for folks today).

WotC has announced several times and Mike Mearls confirmed that the Basic Rules pdf will be updated with monsters in support of the PHB and HotDQ. Their plan was to update it today, but Mike did indicate that might get delayed slightly due to Gencon and DMG prep work, so I expect we'll have a...