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I think I'll change tactics here: Given your assumptions it seems evident that you need to change a lot in your setting between D&D5 and PF, seeing that the probabilities for grunts killing a are different. ;)

Please, I did not say the best, but it is more popular ;) You and me both. 4e tieflings never felt like tieflings to me. The random traits table in Planescape reflects much how I like tieflings. Each a unique being with no home. Many mad, many weird or just plain odd. Nothing wrong with...

Curiously, there is a fairly hefty pdf on Wizards site describing the rules for their organised play. Most of the D&D games are not "organised play".

I think they put tieflings in 4e because it was a fairly popular race in 3e (and in Planescape (Torment or p&p); who does not love Annah?) They appear as interesting figures in some 3e FR novels. They even had representatives in the Baldur's Gate games. Aasimar never garnered such popularity...

You raise an interesting question; are the rules primarily written for organized play, or should the organized playing be based on the ordinary rules?

You're aware that we are talking about the difference between flavours of D&D, not between reality and D&D? Anyway, as I said, the differences are small, on the whole. The story is that big honking dragons swoop down on the poor villagers who desperately try to organise defences, because...

Which is why it is not good to have an extreme position hard coded into the PHB. It gives players (including DMs) a feeling that it must be so - it is in the rules. it can be used to force the DM to allow easy access to Raise even if it does not suit the setting.

Indeed. Fantasy without realism would just be weird and unrecognisable. That is just a very cheap excuse to not have to think. I think that anything that can make girl gamers feel less excluded is good. Women are underrepresented as it is. If breasts help some I'm all for it, it is a very...

I have just started running the Age of Worms (with a twist) again. And naturally thought about how to convert the spawn, but waited as I do not have the MM yet. I'll check your version more in detail when I have the time. It does look very 3e at first glance, I'll look at the AD&D version.

Didn't Mearls (or somebody) suggest something like that early in the playtest phase? Just saying that they search the whole room could lead to a check, perhaps even with disadvantage if it were non-specific or hurried, a normal check with some immersion, and advantage if real thought was...

Races can, and have, been introduced many times apart from the edition changes. No cataclysms were needed for all the half-dragon, -fiendish and -whatnot creatures that appeared during 3e. Nor when goliaths appeared. Half-orcs don't have a nation, but PCs can play one. Why does FR need an entire...

Sorry, I mean the DMG example. (The passive perception is just boring.) It is a bit long for just a secret door, but indeed if you think of it as an important encounter, then yes. So, can I change my mind?

Not surprised to hear that you've beaten me to it. ;) Heart of Darkness is a great story. I've actually played/GMed/cowritten three versions. (One including succubi strippers, lightning strikes against trollking (Gloranthan kobold equivalents) and the lines 'I love the smell of ozone in the...

I always disliked the 'take 20', or passive perception solution to secret doors. If they are not more important or interesting than that I prefer to skip them. (If they are only there to reward the PC's high perception scores with a bonus treasure or such, well, fine.) An secret door should be...

Sort of trolling, posting a false press release, dated January 1st 2015. I think it would be good if a mod marked is as parody or somesuch.

I really prefer that the worlds are consistent, and not changing unnecessarily just for the sake of minor rules changes. I'd say that the difference between exactly how many arrows it takes to kill a dragon isn't that interesting. (In 5e the dragon would just have to fight the militia a little...

Ohhh, I just realised that an Oathbreaker gone Blackguard would make for an amazing Kurtz á la Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now! A paladin gone evil trying to do the same work, that is protecting the home base against evil incursions. But now by killing everything she perceives as a threat...

As long as you deal out XP in amounts that you are comfortable with (and possibly in accord with the pace of a published scenario) any rate is good. I'd skip the XP for blood bit entirely. XP for gold does have a lot of advantages, but perhaps XP for goals is better (unless the goal is to...

I won't take a pic of our map, as it is messy, using a soft pencil, and in Swedish. But it tends to look something like this: In my experience they more or less make themselves. Start by putting in all the PCs as nodes (nevermind their names for now, Stefan's PC is fine), some NPCs...