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Which is something I do for one group and not another based on the players and the style of campaign. I do agree that we should have more guidelines and suggestions. On the other hand, anyone learning to play now knows how to search for advice they don't need it in the rulebook. I'd love a...

I've DMed a lot of different groups over the years and I see no way a game with the complexity of flexibility of D&D can avoid having a DM make adjustments for their group and style of play. Whether that's the level of challenge the group faces, how often they get rests, what treasure they...

Some of us still see it as a feature and one of the reasons we still play the game, especially when for various reasons we have limited options.

Talk about edition wars. :) The "edition" we should be changes based on what you take into consideration. If we were like software we would have had things like 2.0.10 for Skills & Powers, maybe 5.0.12 for Tasha's. We should have editions like "Let's try to clean up the mess", "Now we need to...

Can we not have edition wars yet again?

How much time do you have? ;) The big things from 2e to 3e were of course changing the math. No more THAC0, all numbers go up, higher is (almost) always better. They took some ideas from Skills & Powers and implemented skill proficiencies and feats. My very short version (differences from 3e...

The rules state that most potions are 1 oz of liquid. Some potions do not appear to be liquid at all, a Potion of Gaseous Form "seems to hold fog that moves and pours like water". A potion of invisibility "looks empty but feels as though it holds liquid." When there's an exception to the...

We don't have good data for sales any more and even if we did it doesn't account for the growth of DndBeyond and people (like me) who no longer purchase a physical copy for most of their books.

Which means they likely have been replaced as the largest single demographic by a new group 18-24 year-olds so I'm not sure what the point is. Shouldn't be a surprise that high school and college age individuals have more time and enough disposable to play. People graduate from college, get...

If the products produced were as poor a quality as people claim, I don't think they would have sold well. But outside of obvious grammar, layout, physical quality there are only so many ways to measure quality. I'm not saying they're any better than anyone else's product. Just that they...

But haven't you heard? Popularity is not the same as good, even if the people buying it apparently think it's good along with something, something Stranger Things and CR (ignoring that D&D has had representation here and there on all sorts of shows for decades). To a certain extent is true...

Seems like the things you ask for are things that third parties are easily able to step in and provide if there's enough demand. That seems to be part of WOTC's strategy and I don't see why it's an issue. Would it be better to go back to TSR days (joke acronym was They Sue Regularly) that...

Anything is allowed if the DM okays it. The official guidance is that if it's been replaced, use the new stuff. Which I do for classes and items, not so much for other rules like stealth.

Back on topic, I really wish we still had the option to buy partial books. I don't use FR so I don't really need the book. Not even sure it's something I want to open up to the PCs until I get more details. But I do like the ideas behind this, even if I already have NPC rituals and group...

There's no reason to believe that under the hood an NPC mage doesn't work just like a regular old wizard PC class. But since that mage is only going to have 15 minutes of fame (if that), there's no reason to add all of the complexity of a PC class. To justify otherwise in-world lore would have...

Even if NPCs didn't have spell slots (they do), any NPC or monster that casts a spell in my game will qualify for this. We don't have the exact text yet of course, but the only reason the MM doesn't spell out spell slots is for simplicity while running them. If we can't have evil cultists...

Never let "facts" get in the way of a good conspiracy theories! Even if the results are amazing, that will just be proof that it hasn't collapsed ... yet.

I see people using dust of disappearance on a pretty regular basis to make the party invisible, we just used it in yesterday's game to free some captives and bypass an expected combat. The limitation with invisibility is that if you attack or cast a spell you become visible and just because you...

So you aren't the one posting thing like this? Because that sure as heck sounds like you aren't talking about just your game, you're telling someone else they're being a bad no-good DM because they put limits on what the characters can do. Meanwhile you're just not going to have brooms of...

I was in a campaign with a guy who wanted to ride a broom while using a shield and casting spells with somatic components or attacking with a weapon. The DM saud no. Had another asking about putting stirrups on ao they could use a bow, although they may have gotten the idea from critical roll...