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Yeah, I assumed it might be added material in the book somewhere...but it wasn't in any obvious places, and without an electronic version I didn't want to spend hours on a fruitless attempt to find it in the book. If it sounds familiar to you from there, then I might spend a bit more time paging...

Going through my campaign manager software, I find that I made the Iron Obelisk on the Isle of Dread (I have the Goodman Games remake) include a portal to a demiplane called Charontlis. Apparently Charontlis was created by a vanished race of powerful psionics, and includes the descendants of...

Yeah, that's exactly the sort of unfortunate problem that makes it difficult for me. That extra speed is part of what you paid for in your character build. If the way the game is run just erases its existence...well, gee thanks for nerfing my character. Same thing with weapon and spell ranges...

Sure. But using GWM effectively wasn't really intended design, since feats are technically optional and the game is designed to be balanced for casual players. You have to compare classes without adding in the optional rules of feats or multiclassing, or I don't think you get a good idea of...

I like to use both depending on the situation and would ideally prefer to save the board for certain highly tactical battles. But...in practice I haven't had a lot of great experiences running TotM combat in D&D. D&D has all kinds of things measured in feet that are supposed to matter. It has...

I don't actually understand the complaints against the 2014 Monk. I think it's the best version of monk I'd seen when it came out. It has incredibly good, unparalleled magical defenses. Same with mobility. Its at-will damage isn't top tier, but it's respectable. And its short rest based ki...

I misread it as Carceri, because I saw the string of pearls and thought it was clever. Then I realized it was Pandemonium and a missed opportunity.

While I enjoyed the essay, I don't believe the solution--as presented--will work with any modern version of D&D. The rules of modern D&D are way to codified to essentially ignore like that. You are going to need some solid, consistent house-rules for interrupts that work in a balanced way with...

Since nobody as brought it up, and there is a lot of discussion going on about how much you can drink... The 2014 PHB includes "drink all the ale in a flagon" as one of the examples of a free object interaction.

So it sounds like there are definitely a range of opinions on the topic! Sorting through the various adjustments to play-style intended by the rules people have been using, I think I'm going to give the bonus action potions (for self use) a try and see how it affects play. I'm most interested...

I think we've hit on a fundamental divide that people assume their own premise on and therefore have trouble communicating with those from the other premise: Is what's most salient in making psionics different the method of manifesting the effect, or the nature of the effect? I'm firmly in the...

Our game is 2014, but I have reviewed the 2024 PHB and DMG and selected some things as inspiration for house rules. Mostly individual elements, like upgrading the damage to a particular spell, or adding a weaker version of an extra clasd feature. In general, the core of our game, house rules...

Ah, that makes sense. I just assume an Investigation check that finds the trap also determines how it works. Then a thieves' tools check can be used to disarm it. If it's more of a hidden puzzle that can't be disarmed with thieves's tools, I'd probably try to give them the info they need with...

Expanded Psionics Handbook (3.5e) works for me (power points, powers that are individual entities up to 9th-level like spells but different). Ideally, I'd adjust it in one of two ways. 1) Add more at-will and encounter powers, but based around a 5e balance framework and otherwise stick close...

I actually tell my players not to ask to make a check in D&D, because I might just let them succeed without it. "Asking to roll is asking to fail." I just find there aren't a lot of times when they are asking questions that would require an Investigation check to interpret, if Investigation...

You know with something like this, what's really interesting is the often unstated (or unexamined) motivations for how we each choose to interpret it. For me, for instance, what I care most about is trying to get a balance between skill usefulness. Since Perception is hugely useful for spotting...

Actually it was originally that way in the play test. At some point (seems after the play test in my memory) they switched it mostly into Perception, which I feel makes what's already the best skill in the game ridiculous. Like others have described, I prefer Perception for creatures in Stealth...

I go even further than others with the assumed value of coins. I treat 1 copper piece as the conceptual equivalent of $1 USD. That means a silver is $10, and a gold $100. This was not arbitrary. I looked at the price of real estate in the DMG. I looked at the price of lifestyle expenses and...

Mostly 3 for me. Some of the PCs are just sitting on their accumulating cash, while I'm constantly feeling low from luxury cosmetic expenditures. Well, that and wanting to scribe every spell from every captured spell book, and make scrolls for the rarely cast ones so I don't have to prepare...

@tomedunn , I could use some help with some of your calculations. After further analysis, I believe your method of calculating a monster's XP and then assigning it a CR based on that XP is what WotC actually uses. I think you've almost certainly basically cracked the code. On my list of...