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GMs? I agree. There are some games where specific and commonly used information is needed. Rolemaster is an example of this. (Although why it can't lay flat is beyond me.) DMs? No. There is nothing a DM (especially 5e) needs to have on a screen in front of them. The only exception is if they...

You are probably correct.

I can already see they are not necessarily aligning the PHB with the Greyhawk setting. Dragonborne? I mean, I know players like them, myself included, but they don't belong there. Culturally different/significant humans would be better.

No. I find it disingenuous. If I have built an encounter, and the group runs through it, so be it. If I built an encounter and the group nearly dies, so be it. I always err on the side of caution when building an encounter and try to add more things that are interesting than deadly. But the last...

I really like the idea of @Snarf Zagyg message of not slavishly recreating and learning from the old setting to make it different from other settings. My two coppers would be: Lean in on the politics. I say this for two reasons. One, so each nation can be a little more xenophobic than modern...

That's a big question. Missing species that haven't made it in yet: Stars, similar to will-o-wisps. Pulling in other races from different planets like Klingon, Vulcan, etc. Any food-based race, similar what one would see on a 2-year-old's television show; ie a talking potato, cucumber, etc...

And that is fair. I keep saying, we'll have to wait and see. So I will go by that.

I mean, just adding up the numbers to 69 or 106 takes time. And for those non-calculator brains, it takes time. Each person I play with has someone sitting near them that can do the math in their head pretty quickly - and it still takes time. Let alone telling someone you do 6d8 but then you get...

I think this is nice in concept, and definitely your experience. But from my experience, it is the opposite. There are many experienced players that still don't know the game. There are many players that go to do something, then it's explained it's more detrimental than positive, and then they...

I think it will definitely be worthwhile for some tables. For others, not so much.

Wasn't there a turtle with this video? :)

They seem fun, and in my experience, this will work out fine. The only thing that brings me caution is the amount of time it will take for combat. I can already tell it will take longer, and that is not an improvement for our table.

I agree. Your second point is spot on. Of course, if we go down that rabbit hole, then it might turn into, "What is the wizards unique enemy type? What is the sorcerer's unique enemy type?" Again, I like the thought though, just trying to play a small devil's advocate.

I think this touches on a great point. People envision the ranger, or any martial class, as doing something heroic at higher levels. Trekking across a dangerous desert or exploring some ancient ruins in a forest are par for the course for our ranger - at least that is what we envision. But when...

I agree, judging authors that work in the present is much more difficult. We believe we understand the context of these authors, but there is a strong chance we don't. Today's standards also bring up the complexities of "how much" we know about an author, and whether or not that information...

If you decide to study an author, the time they wrote (also its reaction to previous times), and what they wrote, it inevitably puts their work into context. In that, a great many conclusions can be made, some explicit and others implicit. The meaning of an author's work can be explicitly stated...

Both of your points are clear and taken. Thank you for explaining it clearly.

This is nothing but facts. Unfortunately, it is myopic in its viewpoint. You can make the best damage output that way. But again, this a game with trade-offs. It is not a "problem" that one build does more damage than the other, if the other has something they prefer as a player, such as more...

I did. Eight levels of fighter, four levels of barbarian, and four levels of cleric. The multi-class pieces were purely for RP story reasons, but I can tell you the eight levels of fighter (Champion), with the class ability Two-Weapon Fighting and the feat Dual Wielder (AC bump and longswords)...

Fair enough. But from your first post, it really sounds like you are just asking for more. And you are correct, healing word is a spell, not a class ability. I was just using it as an example, albeit a poor one. Thanks for clarifying the position.