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As a GM I have got a lot on my plate - I am more than happy to outsource dice rolling to the players and focus on other stuff. I don't really find dice rolling fun as a GM anyway - when the GM rolls well it kinda sucks for the group as a whole. I rolled two big crits on a PC in the same fight...

I think Aaron Taylor-Johnson would be good in the role, and he is the right age (34), although Kraven bombing probably doesn't help his chances.

Right - at least then you could defend it as a design choice to be concise rather than taking up more space with the extra information the DM could find elsewhere. But what's really funny is that "using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting" takes up more space on the page than just...

My daughter is 10 and she really loved the Young Adventurer's Guides. They have a lot of the concepts and lore for the game presented in a way that is very digestible for kids.

Voted Yes and I don't like it. It isn't terrible. But a significant number of the changes are wildly broken, over powered, overly complex, or just dumb AF (I'm looking at you dragonborn sparkle wings!). It is far easier for me to houserule the stuff I like into 5.0 rather than trying to...

Generally no. When it happens it is usually because the GM is not running the type of game I enjoy or is just not very good. Maybe figure out what it is that you want out of the player experience and try to find games that scratch that itch? Most people like some types of...

This is what I was hoping they would do with GH. A campaign setting that doesn't require a DM to read a 200 page setting book, follow an evolving "metaplot," or read a bunch of tie-in novels is incredibly useful to many people, including new DMs. I also think it sends a great message - this...

It really feels like a wash to me - for everything that was improved there is something else that is worse off. Lots of changes seem like game designers just needing to tinker with stuff for the sake of tinkering. Hiding and stealth is just as confusing and broken as it was before, but in a...

This seems like a defense, but when you read it closely it just raises more red flags. "Neither Wizards nor the Arneson family estate had the license when this project began." Even if this is true it is not even a little bit relevant to whether or not Ink Bat has the rights to use the IP in...

Yeah, not to knock Wayne Reynolds, but I associate his art style with PF way more than D&D. When I first saw these stamps I thought a clueless person at the Royal Mail had goofed and used PF art on the Dungeons & Dragons stamps.

It is definitely a great system, and I think it does a lot of the things it sets out to do incredibly well. 5E is still my main game, but I do think PF2 has it beat when it comes to tactical combat, high level play, encounter building, crit fails and successes, and a few other things. It is...

All of those people worried that WotC's dominance of the RPG industry was bad for the hobby must feel pretty silly right about now. Turns out the problem is that WotC isn't dominant enough. My question is why stop with just other versions of D&D? Remember what Paizo did to WotC under the...

Yeah, the gold dragon is pretty clearly an DMNPC who is going to steamroll the villain while the PC's mop up the kobolds. Which is pretty representative of many players' experiences.

Chris Cocks was right

I think it depends on what you believe D&D should be. For instance, Matt Coleville talks a lot about older editions of D&D (see his recent bit on how adventures were better back in the good old days). But he doesn't talk at all (to my knowledge) about Fate, PbtA, or similar games. I imagine...

Two of the biggest RPG content creators out there - the Matts Coleville and Mercer - are actively making their own games right now and talking about their design choices. Ditto with Dungeon Coach. DM's Lair switched to PF2 a while back as did Rules Lawyer. @SlyFlourish talks about Shadowdark...

That is a bit like saying any game that can't be played using d6s is too complex. Character builders are a tool. If they enable a particular style of game that people enjoy why crap on that?

It doesn't seem like the problem is the dependence on the character builder - it is that even with the character builder you players need tons of hand holding. There is a pretty clear mismatch between the complexity of the systems you are running and your players' willingness do develop some...

I don't own a ton of WotC adventures, but I can think of several examples from the ones I do own: 1) the dragon in HotDQ that 1st level PCs can't fight directly but can drive off using siege weapons, 2) the roper from the same adventure (the DM is warned that is is "very dangerous" to low level...

Weird - I got 50% Carrie, 35% Samantha, 10% Miranda, and 5% Charlotte.