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So, for now, make your own. There's already a ton of fan-made rules, classes, monsters, etc.

They've been killing it on Amazon, too. As of today, the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Games sales ranks have the DM Screen at #1, PHB #2, DMG #3, MM #4, and HotDQ #6. In overall Book sales (taking any and all books into account - novels of any genre, children's books, cookbooks, etc.), the PHB is #100, DMG...

I'm sure the interviewer/producer of the segment had no (or very little) prior knowledge of D&D. It's very possible one of the interviewees (in a portion that didn't make the final cut) inadvertently made it sound like they introduced the 20 sided die. It very well could have gone something like...

That was brought up by the DM, actually, but the player argued that cutting of the finger as a souvenir wasn't actually evil. He argued that the cultist was evil, having attacked the town, and the souvenir was to be a warning to the other cultists, and finally that it wasn't torture because he...

Can we please get some more threads debating the merits of the release schedule, each with a different title? That way, those that like lots of releases will have plenty of threads in which to argue. </ sarcasm> Seriously, though, this same thing is being debated in several other threads...

We started HotDQ last night. DM rule was no evil characters. One player created a neutral character (Rogue) but tried to play him as evil. The other players shut him down pretty fast. Example: After capturing a cultist and bringing him in for interrogation, the rogue wanted to cut off one of his...

I'm not playing a cleric, just curious: does a cleric get the two domain spells plus the other 4 prepared?

I cringed at that part. But overall is was a well done piece. Better than I expected.

Works great on iPhone. If you have both iPad and iPhone, be sure to stay in sync, which is manual. If you make any updates/changes on whatever device you're on, make sure to save it to iCloud. Then, next time you open the other device, be sure to load from iCloud. Now, back to iPhone: each...

Turns out that was a brain fart on my part. I totally forgot that with finesse weapons you can choose to use either STR or DEX modifier. The app automatically picks whichever is higher.

Curious what features Maptools has that Roll20 doesn't?

No ads. Also, I think the free version limits the number of modifiers you can add. I can't remember: I know I hit a wall on *something*, then upgraded for $2.99. (Also, that $2.99 covers both iPhone and iPad...) Now that I have it set up, spells added, etc., I really like it. It's very nice...

Thank you! Not intuitive, but oh well. Wonder why they didn't just make a separate interface for it instead of burying it?

Is anyone using this app? Just downloaded it and it looks like it could be very helpful, except for one thing: I can't figure out how to add my additional skill proficiencies. The app shows the two proficiencies from my Background on the list of skills, but nowhere on the edit screens do I see...

That's a good point that I forgot to mention in my earlier post. ONLY the DM needs to pay if you want the extra features (like dynamic lighting or fog of war). It's always free for players. It CAN be free for DMs, too, if you don't mind missing the extra features. There are hundreds of videos...

I'm a big fan of roll20, particularly the paid version. I ran Lost Mine of Phandelver on there, and it was great. There's an excellent 5e auto-generating character sheet, and dynamic lighting is a killer feature.

Haven't started HotDQ yet, but from *everything* I've read, I'd say yes, that's about right. LMoP comes with the Starter Set, so nothing for you to track down. The SS books are the actual rules...they're just a small subset of them. BTW, you can purchase high-quality digital downloads of the...

Another vote for Starter Set/Lost Mines of Phandelver. For me, I will go so far to say I think it's the best starter set module ever released, surpassing even Keep on the Borderlands. It really is a fantastic introduction to 5e.

Thanks for the replies. We're meeting tomorrow to help everybody create their characters, so I'll wait and see how it plays out. I'll set up my bard to fill in any gaps.

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Starter Set I ran Lost Mines of Phandelver online at roll20, and found it to be the perfect starting adventure. Reason enough to buy the starter set, even if you already have the PHB and DMG. I think, in years to come, Phandelver will be appearing on plenty...