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As long as they make an attack or take damage every round. And if they fail to do so, they gain exhaustion, a heavy penalty. Complex. If you use hold person, you can conceivably stop AND exhaust them. Tactical. Are they using finesse-able weapons? Rules knowledge. There is a lot more baked into...

I've seen enough enough Elmore art to know that wasn't a woman, because I've seen how he paints women. As a kid, I was quite sure it was a man. However, looking back at it, and setting aside my familiarity with Elmore, there actually isn't a lot to indicate one way or another. To me, the fact...

Spells in 5e are generally not complex. OTOH, a Mad Berserker Barbarian using frenzy is quite the beast, mechanically speaking.

I think it's a big problem when people are complaining about the balance of martials versus casters, and arguing the Champion Fighter and Battlemaster fighter are somehow underpowered. I don't think it's possible to satisfy someone whose ideal Warlord is going to match a Cleric having their best...

They replaced the whole bardic music system from 3e with a handful of class features in 5e. Why would the warlord get more than that? Fundamentally, 5e always aims for a simplified action economy. All that White Raven Tactics stuff is just very un-5e-like.

I can see what you're saying, other than the fact, they do scale. From d8 to d10 to d12. And you get more of them. And wizards don't get a free 1st level spell slot any time they don't have one. Or the fact that fighters are not actually dependent on their maneuvers to keep doing what they do...

So... a fighter.

I don't care about the "lazylord." It's not something I'm interested in seeing in the game. I'm saying for a vanilla warlord, what would they have that is not already represented by a Battlemaster Fighter with Inspiring Leader and team-friendly maneuvers?

You can already play a Battle Master Fighter with the Inspiring Leader feat. What's left? Honestly, I find the idea of a character whose main focus is to grant other people free movement and attacks pretty tedious. The whole concept is somewhat antithetical to the 5e core design, which is...

Planning a heist is a meeting, and meetings are generally boring. Insofar as the plan makes sense, it's realistic, and insofar as it's realistic, real-life heist planning takes extensive casing, is really boring, and often hinges on waiting for a lucky opportunity.

I don't play currently, but I did voluntarily play a game back in 1994. I wasn't into D&D at that point in time, but then, as now, it was the most popular game, and the most available. Character creation is usually pretty simple. It's fun to comb through books to find cool options in a game that...

This is covered in detail in Xanathar's.

Partly because brewing a healing potion isn't normally a DC you roll against during an adventure, so there is otherwise a risk of making it trivial. But mainly because brewing a healing potion requires knowledge of a formula and the skill to make it, and I would really like to hear your...

I think the quantity of wealth should be controlled. Yes, a dragon might have a bunch of money, but at that level and up, you should mostly be looking at magical treasures and truly priceless gemstones. It's sort of surreal to assume an ancient stone giant wizard must be some kind of billionaire...

There's a button to refuse to upgrade. But I assume that will only be there as long as it takes to refine the update.

The biggest problem I have with restricting skill checks, second to simply breaking the RAW in a big way and upsetting the presumed balance, is that the DM places themselves in the position of stating who they think the PC. The classic one I hear is, "Well, would you let the Barbarian make an...

So, anyway, the GM book says to vary encounter difficulty. Which most people ignore. But it's not really a problem with 5e so much as 5e DMs, and maybe some 5e module writers. Even with just +/-2 Challenge, which is pretty tame, you can have a wide variety of creatures, with a wide variety of...

The greater fool.

If I'm understanding correctly, the best hope for a lot of your favorite games is going to be that, at the other end of the tunnel, someone picks them up in a fire sale and puts them back on the market.

It wasn't a forum I visited, but I tend to think of every dedicated forum that closes as something valuable lost. Yet maintaining a forum takes time and energy, which can be a distraction from publication.