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I agree, but it interrupts the flow. I'd prefer to not have to pause to give the opportunity, which is what this would require. IMO, its a negative play experience for the table. I often have 4 adults and a couple of kids around 10 years old at the game, so do everything I can to speed up play.

Whoever designs this nonsense needs to actually play at a table with all this fiddly order of operations garbage. As written, you should be imposing disadvantage before they roll. Meaning you announce the target of Buttwhipper the Mighty, the guy with lucky will stare at you blankly, then as...

Yeah, I feel if the dice boxes/rolling trays were on Etsy for $25 - 30 people would be tripping over themselves to order them. A basic set of dice will run $5 or so. As a whole, these aren't particularly overpriced for a limited edition thing.

I'm not sure how "the melee guy gets hit more" is a mark in their favor. What irritates me about many friendly fire rules is that the arrow just magically knows who your friend is and hits them, rather than any of the other hostile targets which may be adjacent or interposed.

Option paralysis and fear of picking wrong add complexity in creation and play, plus the gish style of bladelocks is more difficult than being a wizard. The wizard gets to repick all their superpowers after a nap (and during short rests now). In play, their only feature is spells, compared to...

In my previous game, the paladin got plate at 5th level. In my current game they pooled and got it at 3rd as part of a quest set-up.

Anyone know what the box is made of? It appears to be wood. The dice are apparently resin per the video, just don't really look it. Weird that everything is 1e except for Vecna Lives! (gotta remember the exclamation mark), which is 2nd edition. I guess they wanted something with Vecna in the...

I hope the Vecna Lives dice are intentionally malformed and misnumbered, to reflect the quality of that module. Those are some janky dice though for a collectible. I feel they should have just charged $50 and included some resin sharp edge or somethin better.

Finesse has the same wording and I don't think anyone would rule that you have to use Strength for an offhand dagger attack. "Finesse When making an attack with a finesse weapon, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You must use the same...

The GM still can give out more if they/the deity is willing. Now there's just some concrete bottom levels of what the cleric gets.

It's a minor evil, but I don't see that as a problem for a Neutral character any more than committing a good act would be. Alignment is by and large the sum of one's actions and intent.

Giving them an extra +5 to hit to counter shield sure is IMO. Moreover "just add counterspell" to every fight isn't clever either. It's just nerfing the spell with extra steps.

So the DM just pulls things out of their ass/cheats rather than WOTC make competent rules and balanced spells. Got it.

I'd love to support DDB but their functionality for actually doing anything but giving WOTC money is hot, wet garbage. Make a custom class and want to let your players create a character with it? Too bad! Want a longsword that deals 2d8 for whatever reason? Nope! Want to just make a spell...

Why don't you list some of these monsters with counterspell we can organically insert into basically every encounter? This feels like the theoretical Anti-Magic field caster supremacists wave around like the zero to one time a campaign it appears somehow balances things. Give them an extra +5...

I think that the fact a 1st level spell slot gains effectiveness while other 1st level spells lose relevance is an indicator of poor design IMO. A 1st level Burning Hands is meaningless at 10th level, a 1st level shield likely blocks more attacks at higher levels and costs negligible resources...

The DM has enough on their plate without having to plan every encounter around a single overtuned spell (see also silvery barbs). "Git Gud" is insulting advice in a video game, it's equally insulting here. God forbid you actually run a dungeon in Dungeons and Dragons, which often feature small...

So much this. We joked about sitting around after each fight poking each other with sticks. Eventually we just ruled that you healed to full for fee if you could take a couple minute breather.

I've been running a while with letting Cure Wounds and Healing word both be bonus actions that you can cast as an action for double the dice.

Magic Weapon is useless in most games. I feel bad for the dirt farmer game where people don't have +1 weapons by 7th level. Ditching the Gish cantrips was a mistake. They're balanced over other cantrips by requiring multiple attributes (str/dex and a caster stat)