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For me it's popularity, measured in sales, streams, buzz, and so on. Whether or not I like it is irrelevant, as is critical consensus. All of the Billboard Hot 100 #1s have to be considered hits, even though their quality varies wildly. As previously mentioned, something can be a hit within its...

For me, starting with my own character was amazing, and I kept that character as my main all through my 1e years. But I was an obvious D&D mark. At school, I onboard new players all the time for the club, and they all generate their own characters. On the other hand, when it is new players who...

Today one of my players asked me, for future reference, if speak with dead could be used on a door that has a face, including a mouth, carved into it, on the grounds that a door is just dead wood, and speak with plants is already a thing. My thinking is "no," because I think the spell implies a...

The history of the rapier is a lot more interesting than I realized, and I'm not being sarcastic. But that aside, this thread also has me wondering what my bridge too far is, because it sure isn't rapiers. Psionics maybe, but that seems too broad.

I 100% treat natural 20s as critical successes and natural 1s as critical failures. Natural 1s are the best roll in the game!

I'm going to update the Cult of Chaos to a cult of the Chained Oblivion. Same-same, really.

I've used the Xanathar's rule, which is still current with the 2024 update. It works well enough - going without sleep*** is debilitating and eventually fatal. ***or a few hours of meditation for elves.

You should try the 2024 monk. It can do all that stuff but now also excels in your bland square room scenario! It basically has no weaknesses.

With all the ridiculousness in D&D, I am fascinated that rapiers are where OP draws the line. But I guess each of us has our bridge too far.

I hope the medication works out for you - balancing new meds is always tricky and usually takes time, as I'm sure you know. I don't envy the transition period. I voted for magic items, as I think they have the largest audience and your stuff is always really good.

Anything that leads to this much litigation is way too much rules lawyering for me, reinforcing my immediate inclination to just say "no." Arguing on forums is fine, but if there's one thing I hate, it's arguing about rules when we could be playing the game. The OP seems obviously against RAI...

The 2024 monk is very strong indeed; I think your tweak won't change much, though. The patient defence upgrade isn't until level 10, which most campaigns don't reach, and even then the PD upgrade is worth, at that level, 11 temp HP on average whereas your buff to the HP die adds 10 permanent HP...

Yeah, mine is going into Exandria, Eastern Dwendalian Empire I think. As far as I can tell, it is setting agnostic.

Yeah, I've read more of it and I think they really hit the mark. I'm fine with it being written for younger players; as a veteran DM I totally revamp premade materials anyway, so it is less work for me to build something up without having to tear it all down first. For example, I will be using...

It is on Maps, though interestingly it's no longer called Maps on the campaign page. Instead, it asks if you want to go to the VTT.

I'm still going through it, but loving what I'm seeing! It's very sand-boxy! The descriptions are brief and easy to grasp, and there is a lot of scope to make it your own. The digital assets are very well thought through. For example, when you upload a map, you have the option of uploading a...

I'd be a hard no. I hate rules lawyering and this is clearly not rules as intended.

I think that WotC should have a wealth of DDB data on how often each skill is rolled, and should recalibrate the distribution of skills to make them much more balanced in their utility. I suspect that if you consolidated all of the knowledge skills into one skill (call it "Lore"), it would get...

There are quite a few classic adventures set there, most particularly Lost Mine of Phandelver, and it's a good, fairly generic high fantasy setting which makes it easy to plug and play.

This is a pretty common house rule. I use it in my home games, where everyone rolls actual dice, but it doesn't work as well with my beginner campaign at school, where everyone is on DDB.