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I agree. I was listening to an old podcast of mine about the 2023 Summit an one of my big takeaways was "quit worrying about Sigil". They were back in the phase of demoing the hell out of it but it was pretty clear that the need for high-end GPUs to run it was going to be very prohibitive. I...

You don't have to use all of them all at the same time. If you know what monsters you're going to use, you can just use those for the session you're running. If you have players with a mix of characters, they each can use their own PHB. Just because it can be a mess doesn't mean it has to be...

Great! So all it takes is computer code to run our tabletop RPG effectively... =)

Oh wow. Is this what the thread is actually all about?

Aside from the D&D brand, which WOTC purchased and was then purchased by Hasbro, I argue that 13th Age is as much D&D as 4th edition is. Maybe moreso since the designers didn't have corporate mandates that guided design. Same with Pathfinder. I bring it up because I often see a lot of "I sure...

Backstabbing for a ton of damage and then firing off telekenesis and keeping it up as a bonus action was pretty gonzo. Another problem that we had a conversation about is the ability to use two magic items the same turn or even the same magic item twice because the rogue can use both an action...

Or find an alternative platform we own. I have dreams of a nice web-based compendium and character builder functionality in Foundry. No luck so far from what I gather.

I also don't know why we have to put so much weight on Hasbro for our RPG fun time. There are so many awesome RPGs with so many different feelings and flavors going on. Let's elevate those! Here are some that have my attention that run a wide range of playstyles in the fantasy RPG world...

This is one of those "I wonder how players would feel about it if I did it to them" sort of spells. I've always adjudicated that a pile of magic missiles only forces one concentration check because otherwise enemy spellcasters would pepper the hell out of the characters with magic missiles and...

The issue with Twilight Clerics and other WOTC-published broken stuff (Silvery Barbs) is that they're all considered default in D&D Beyond. If it weren't for D&D Beyond, it wouldn't be a problem. But players expect that if its in D&D Beyond, they can use it, and that ends up a big mess. DDB not...

I think it has always fallen to the GM to adjudicate these sorts of things and that should be built into the games we run. I now have a disclaimer at the beginning of my campaigns (which I talk about in this panel) that I tell players "hey, if something's not working out, I expect we can have a...

Each of us get to decide if something's not working for us. For me, the Twilight Cleric had way too much damage mitigation going on. It wasn't just healing, it was essentially giving every character a round-resetting damage threshold of 1d6 + cleric level. It also took a lot of time at the...

I still think fireballs are really powerful. I've played close to a thousand 5e games in the past ten years and no one has ever been disappointed with fireball. Light clerics love fireball and I think they shouldn't have it on their list. Our super high level wizard still casts fireball like...

It occurred to me that we shouldn't have expected a lot of AD&D players at a 5e panel. I don't know why I didn't bring that up.

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A lot of it depends on what I already have ready and where the characters are in the story. I tend to just pay less attention to things I used to focus on. A handful of descriptors for a location is all I need – even just one descriptor if I'm filling out rooms in a dungeon. Lots of little...

Me too!

I prep to improvise. About 30 minutes or so of prep for a 3 hour game using the eight steps.

My first D&D campaign was out of the FR boxed set set in Corm Orp opposing Manshoon and the Zhentarim! Back in the late 80s.