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What's interesting is that they've changed the meaning of Passive Perception substantially. Now, many people were already running it that way, but that's because the actual 2014 description wasn't terribly clear (and the designers weren't terribly consistent about it). Personally I prefer the...

Typical example: The monsters are going to invade, and you need to get the local leader to prepare, etc. Linking their resistance to the idea to a high stat (go with Wisdom rather than Int if it helps you see the issue) doesn't make sense for a Persuasion attempt, where you are by definition of...

What bothers me so much about having the DC be based on a stat of the person you're trying to influence, is that it assumes the smarter, wiser, etc the person is, the less likely your attempt to influence them is to work... Which makes sense if you are trying to deceive them, and maybe if your...

I find DPR is useful because it is simple to derived and compare. Most of the other important factors are not, so you have to go on your gut. Therefore I tend to determine DPR and use my gut to figure out how it works for the rest. Real example. I've used projected DPR of the PCs in our main...

Short of the occasional new or particularly young player, the groups I've played with have always handled violence in a way that works for me. We treat enemies with moral capability as more or less people, and we see the game as set in a world at war. Our groups almost always include good...

I like to play monsters smart, and scripts would be useful. One thing I've been doing for a long time is never have monsters flee in the first round (assuming they chose to engage and weren't just ambushed). A round is only 6 seconds, but more importantly, things are actually happening at the...

So 2002 Chainmail for the western continent and Black Moon Chronicles for the eastern. That's really interesting! Now, if only the latter had a gaming-focused write-up.

Technically the (2014) game has a mechanic for temporary exhaustion, meaning exhaustion that goes away after a short rest. However, nobody knows about it because it is only implemented in the seldom used Chase rules in the DMG. I think the concept of temporary exhaustion adds a useful tool to...

All of the above. Integrated rules and maps in the VTT. Digital versions of books open, and physical versions of the most referenced ones open also. Desktop computer and my old laptop are both open. Anything I can do to reduce search and retrieval time.

Not only do I use them in person (which hasn't happened on a while), I use them when I'm playing online--just find the most convenient place to set one up by my monitor. I like having easy access to reference materials.

The only thing I like here is all species having at least 30' of movement, and the only reason I like that is because all small monstrous humanoids already had 30' of movement, leaving that 25' as purely a "typical PC race" penalty.

Well I can totally get behind that. I'd love an easy way to tell how to convert and compare the relative power of statblocks. Makes it easier to have true monster characters.

Jumping in just to say that the thing that never makes sense for me with this kind of setup, is not how to determine the power of an average PC, but how to define what a "challenge" is for such a PC. Let Mr clarify exactly what I mean. "Level 5 Monster = Level 5 PC" is never what is meant...

I do it exactly the same way. It makes most of the numbers in the books make the most sense with 1 gp = $100 USD.

If my favorite spell, plane shift, doesn't exist, it's not D&D to me.

Makes sense. Two important points to consider. Eldritch Knight is not a 5e analog of the AD&D fighter/mage. It utterly fails at that due to it being limited to low level spells. (Because neither the Eldritch Knight nor the Bladesinger really hit that spot for me I made my own Warrior-Mage...

What is it that you dislike about the Eldritch Knight? I don't see how it could be considered weak, as War Magic (with booming blade or green-flame blade) gives it potentially the highest at-will damage of the PHB fighters at many levels, and its spell choice can enhance it in a variety of...

The reason I'm not a huge fan of that original multiverse version (I much prefer the 2e/Planes cape take) is because I have a hard time seeing how such a conceptually expansive Prime Material Plane can share the same other planes. One Plane of Elemental Fire for all of that? All that...

I wouldn't put much weight on the lack of errata. If you look at the urban encounters table it's a 2d10 roll, which means the results skew towards the middle of the table, unlike with 1d20. But the table results are just in alphabetical order, indicating it was clearly not arranged to be...

When it was first coming up in our group on a VTT, I was trying to figure out how to run it on the medium. Since the VTT shows you the roll total rather than just the die, you already know if shield is going to work and be needed before you cast it. I really didn't think that is how it was...