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I've been a stickler for it for a long time, for the reason that was brought up: balance. So there is regular dropping weapons and picking them back up. I am getting rather sick of that (even though no one has lost a weapon because of it), and have house rules that you can switch a weapon to...

Interesting. I wonder how much of WotC's lore Ed chooses to use himself I never did read Elminster's Forgotten Realms, but it seems surprising to me that he would accept major revisions to Baldur's Gate. Is the Spellplague even "Greenwood canon"?

Unless 4e+5e made some massive changes, Baldur's Gate isn't even close to the largest city in Faerun. Not even in the running. Waterdeep is the biggest city on the Northern Sword Coast, and generally seen as "the" metropolis, but I think Calimport may actually be bigger. There are also other...

That's similar to one category of my many attempts. I think the balance is fairly good, but after I came up with it I realized what I didn't like about it was it still left characters further behind in their class features for most of their career than was satisfying to me (based on my AD&D...

My thoughts on multiclassing are complicated. On the one hand, I don't really care for 3e style multiclassing (and by extension, 5e style multiclassing). 3e multiclassing is usually a way to mechanically optimize for power builds, and I don't care to play that way most of the time. I discourage...

Thanks Quickleaf! Here are my notes from the video. There were 8 players with 6th-level characters and one manticore. The sequence of events was: -They started with a few minutes of introductions, followed by what amounted to a summary of a (non-existent) session that got them to their...

Expect the book to have a plenty of "here's how to make a new plane/planar location". Unless that toolkit design pattern that started a few years ago has gone away.

I wish those 20-30 page adventures were still a thing. That's my foundational experience, so it's how it's "supposed to be" for me. A campaign is years of play with approximately the same players and characters where you mix a combination of homebrew material with drop in adventures of an...

I've also wondered about this. I haven't watched a lot of streams, but I've never seen one where the game (at least, a D&D game) moves as fast as people report. I believe them, but I would love to actually see it. Let me be direct. Are you any of you who run it that fast willing to put it up...

I'm not sure exactly how I'd redo the spell, but I think the phrasing "...creature's current and maximum hit points are reduced by..." has a lot of merit. It does damage "legally" in 5e-ese while getting around all the ways to actually resist taking damage. I'd keep it Instantaneous and just...

I got that one a year ago, so if was added in February it must have gone down and come back up. Further unhappy evidence that that the first two just missed the boat and will never show up.

Honestly, I'm assuming they missed those 3 compendiums when they put the other two dozen or so on, and it's never going to even be on the radar of whoever would actually be the one handling that stuff that there are some missing ones, and that it would be a desireable thing to complete the set...

Dang. I got my hopes up that maybe that's what happened with the missing Monstrous Compendium Appendices (Planescape I and II, and Annual II), but apparently they just aren't there.

I'm using the 5.0e standard for feat power ranges, rather than the more generous later 5e/One D&D power level. That being said, how does the balance look on this feat? Is it something you would be likely to take or not take as a member of those classes? I like the old 3e guidelines for feat...

Many people seem to have missed my point, so I'll attempt to be as clear and factual as possible. In the case of both the 4e and 5e core books, WotC has revised them via errata. Any currently published hard copy you buy of the 5e PHB or DMG has different content than the 2014 versions (and the...

Happy to do so, once WotC makes it possible for me to buy new copies (doesn't have to be print, pdf would suffice) of the 2014 5e PHB, just like I can buy pdfs of the 70's 1e PHB, or the 80s/90s 2e PHB, or the 2001 3.0 PHB

I'm not sure this is the point that should be made if trying to emphasize that Black Flag is objectively misleading as contrasted to WotC. There are quite a lot of us that have serious objections to WotC claims about One D&D. Saying "One D&D is almost as 5e as our latest 5e books" may be...

You know...I usually put a lot of stock in RAW, and seek to get a really good understanding of why it's that way before I mess with it. But in this case, no. It's easier, more satisfying, and more traditional to say that a creature's Type is based on its true form, and nothing changes that...

When I ran it (and the party actually arrived inside by a portal--so had no idea of the directions), it was with a map in Roll20. I think what I did was just say that we will pretend that up on the map is north for purposes of communication. When they emerged to where they could see the sun (and...

These sorts of things do/have come up in pretty much every game I play or run in that gets into sufficient depth or length. The players I play with most often are heavy into role-playing, so we would just expect this sort of thing to be a part of the campaigns.