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Social Media and better websites have evolved into a better savings for a company rather than forums. Social Media is new and it will continue to be the trend so long as it is mostly free. Companies don't have to pay/pick moderators and run a server, they just post/ignore what they want. Jeremy...

Ah, would have to be volunteers passionate about it enough to want to do it of course. My concern would be for the older editions there probably isn't the following to even know what is important and what isn't.

Break it up by edition, then by setting. Anything that is generic rules just goes to edition, everything setting related goes to that obviously. Have a post on the relevant forums here in enworld that is stickied and have someone moderate each section. Tons of copy pastas and you have it. Maybe...

Interesting, but honestly forums are outdated as a mode for communicating with a customer base. Many companies are holding onto forums out of tradition and many don't use them at all for getting new information out to their players. Discussion communities like this one are where forums shine...

Favored Enemy: You learn by observing an enemy and fighting them over time. After facing a specific type of enemy (red dragon, orc, goblin) you can set that creature as your favored enemy. You can only have one favored enemy at a time. After fighting and defeating an enemy that you observed and...

Why not go Oath of the Ancients for the 'nature' flare of ranger but get all the abilities that you are using the multiclass for fighter with? That way you get the two handed weapons, the heavy armor and some smites as well? I don't know if horde breaker is worth all this extra effort. An Oath...

I'm wrapping up WEC with my 3rd DMing of the module and it has been pretty solid. My only concerns with it mirror some of the others..... NPCs in Phandalin are a little light on details. WEC itself is fight after fight, which some people like but I think degrades from the 'bosses' of the...

That's when I just start giving things extra powers, spells or attacks. A Chimera whose master is a spellcaster might have a collar that casts spells or allows it to teleport or something. I've liked the stuff Frog God has put out, they have a book of extra spells and the fiend folio as well...

That's what I think as well the Basic Rules are free and give the core 4 classes and core 4 races (with subraces!) for folks to play a very light and older school style game with no purchase price beyond dice (or if you have a phone, a free download of a dice app). Variant rules seem to be more...

To me the Ranger class is one of three things, or a combination of any.... Protector of the Wild Hunter and Tracker Animal and Nature lover To combine those into something that has a generic base (which is what all the classes pre-path are) and then have specialties in the forms of the path is...

I make the players roll when it is something that hinges the story or seems to make sense. If a player asks about some obscure lore that they might not know as a player but there character might? Roll that religion, arcana or history check (depends on the lore). For things like a half orc...

That would open up more possibilities for more 'starter' style adventures on the cheap though wouldn't it? Right now if you want official 5E content you have to go with longer adventures to get anything... besides that starter set. Oh I know dnd classics all too well, it has filled out the...

Driz'zt was supposed to be in it, but I guess they took him out or just teased it, but his dwarven pal the king is still in there. The Starter Set is a great adventure and the best adventure they have put out so far because it isn't 1-15+ in level. It is a pity that they didn't rig the other...

I don't mind if there is lore and story associated with the adventure, but I dislike having to unwrap heavy story elements linked to another setting in an adventure. When the story has heroes that "everyone" is supposed to know mentioned in it, it feels rather forced to replace them with my own...

I do to, I just don't want the whole campaign to be one book I've had to convert.

This isn't completely true. When the first series of adventures for 3E came out they were setting neutral (starting with Sunless Citadel) even though it is heavily thought to be in Greyhawk, they don't specifically state that fact anywhere at all. I found this refreshing as a DM at that time...

I no longer buy these books. After buying HotDQ and reading friends copies of the other books I have come to the conclusion that they are just too much campaign setting material. I am not a fan of the Forgotten Realms setting, so I don't get much use out of a book whose references are mostly...

I've used Lego minis for my kids games to some moderate success, but it was in a few situations where it got a bit complex for theater of the mind. It also let them have a way to visualize their character a bit more. They have started seeing miniatures though at reaper and online and now...

Clubs how? If you mean the meeting face-to-face clubs, those are slowly morphing into online clubs as folks realize they can go online to do the same thing instead of across town. It also lets them game with folks that live in other countries. It isn't perfect yet, but with online tabletops...

Good thought process, but I wonder if it will ever truly wane? Technology will continue to progress at a very rapid rate and that culture of tech will remain a fairly constant thing unless some sort of 'back tech' or 'unplugged' movement becomes the rage or norm. We are almost getting to a point...