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This is a film that I simultaneously look forward to and dread. It's gonna be a heavy one - it basically has to be.

I'm curious how you got from "I hate it" to "it really hasn't made a noticeable difference" to "has worked out well on the rare occasion it comes up." It felt like quite a journey!

I allowed healing potions for personal use as a bonus action long before 2024. My reasoning was that healing potions are weak and it's usually not a fun turn or particularly useful, so sacrificing the entire action for it was basically never worth it. Whereas a little top-off for a bonus action...

So much this. Though I would go further and say that not only is blame not constructive, it’s usually the opposite. The need to make complicated problems into moral or ideological conflicts with heroes we can praise and villains we can blame often prevents us from solving the problem itself.

I don't think you understand what people are describing as prep. I view my role as "playing the world." If I am ad-libbing, it really is the me, the DM, running the show, just in an impromptu way. The narrative belongs entirely to me. But when I prep a location so that I know what different...

It is not. Did you not read the rest of what I wrote? Because I don't see how you could read what I wrote about players making unexpected choices and needing to have contingencies prepared and get "linear." When I prep a ton of potential encounters and story hooks for a town, as I am doing right...

A few spellcasters get wish, at levels where a vanishly small percentage of games are played. Well, there is a small but vocal contigent on this forum who make that demand. A lot. Then there are a lot of folks who seem pretty satisfied with how martials play. From WotC's perspective, they...

This sounds like a hard class to balance - your examples are of extraordinarily powerful, primarily solo characters. As to whether there is room...that's subjective. As I posted above, adding more complexity to the rules is a cost, and is something that a lot of players don't want (I'm among...

This is fair. I just make the wheelchairs magic. Basically, the same way the X-Men writers started treating Prof. X's wheelchair. It's a handwave solution that gets the job done. And when they players want more verisimilitude, they add it.

One thing that I have been thinking about is whether and how the widespread adoption of DnDBeYond affects WotC's decision making in all things, but especially on adding more stuff to the game. Thanks to DDB, they have a lot of data on class and subclass popularity (every now and then, they...

I agree, and this is basically the format of the Heroes of the Borderlands adventure. To me, a dungeon-type environment is a valuable resource for its inhabitants, and they are going to use that space, so all of it should be meaningful.

I plan a ton because I don't want the players to feel railroaded. So that makes me feel like I need to have a ton of contingencies in place, and it also means that I prep a lot of material that never gets used, or gets used years later, often in a different campaign. For some games, the players...

How many words is a typical game's worth of planning? Factoring in the prep materials specifically for the game and then averaging out the preliminary materials for that part of the world (gazetteer info, basically), I probably average 3-4k words per session. My last campaign arc was ten games...

5e was coming off the heels of 4e, which was much more of a tactical combat game, and I think some of that expectation was still baked in. But instead we got the rise of actual play shows that emphasize story and RP, where combats are relatively rare and consequential. Plus, 5e is not that great...

A) You created an account and necroed a thread to argue against letting disabled characters succeed in a fantasy game? B) It's a FANTASY GAME. If your imagination isn't strong enough for the scenario you describe above, then the game is probably not for you.

Yeah, the new organization kinda sucks. The creatures themselves are a bit stronger. In particular, a lot more of them have multiple damage types, which makes them more threatening to heavily armoured or (especially) damage resistant characters. There are also a lot more extras that creatures...

I don't think Laura Bailey is going to make those types of choices.

Matt's character is such a douche - I am really wondering what that arc is going to look like. I love the concept of a POed fairy, so Thimble should be a fun character in the hands of Laura Bailey. Sam and Whitney had excellent chemistry. I like that Marisha is leaning into wackier...

This is one of many reasons it's an apples and oranges comparison.

Except: Casablanca is two hours, total. It isn't being improvised. It has a plot. Kind of an apples and oranges comparison. Also, it seems a bit early to be comparing Season 4 of Critical Role to an acclaimed classic, based on a four hour funeral episode. IMO. That said, obviously Episode...