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This is a great example of the things I mean when I say it's "not perfect". Another is the spell cards - they have a nice AoE design, but the Ability Score affected by it is often lost in the text.

IRON DM 2025: Round 1, Match 2, bedir than vs humble minion @bedir than and @humble minion, you have 24 hours to post your entries to this thread. Please limit your entry to a title, a list of the ingredients used and 750 additional words. Please include your list of ingredients at the...

But it's not equivalent to a PHB. It's equivalent to a Starter Version of the PHB, DMG, MM, and an Adventure, plus character sheets, minis, dice, and battle maps!

IME, they are a vast array of various extremes. With careful observation, some trends emerge, but you can't rely on the trends in any given specific case. You can only adapt.

The players I had this past weekend ranged by age, with the youngest being 9 and the oldest 60. Most of them were in their early 30's (I'm 51, so nearer the high end!)

I agree. The problem with HP isn't actually a problem with HP - it's a problem with regaining them being called "Healing". The worst example being the spell "Cure Wounds". Generally, there are no wounds to cure. And if there are, Cure Wounds doesn't really do enough (usually) to seem like it's...

The designers of Heroes of the Borderlands felt that they needed to define HP. As far as I can tell, they did it in a number of places!

I've seen that happen. A lot, actually! I've had players insist that a spell doesn't have a Saving Throw when I ask which Save it is, and read it multiple times like you describe, until I take their sheet (I make sheets for players that have the full text of spells, shortened to reduce...

TEAM CAVES Encounter: Dig-Site Time: ~17:35 on 4 Tarsakh 1483DR Begin Round Four

Team Caves Shamal slashed his swords into the nearby Cultist, who fell to the ground among glowing green crystals. Urgan moved southwestward, away from the largest piles of crystals, but only the ones furthest away began to dim their glow. Torhak cut down the remaining armored dog. Then he and...

It is, indeed! Don't worry - You. Will. Be. Judged.

Sure, it happens. It's not the only place that the same information is given, as seen in other posts. But if you're not finding it by reading AND not finding it by looking at the pictures, then yeah, you're not finding it - but it's there.

I am certain that it will be. Your judge is, I think, waiting for a bit to see if there was any chance of a change of heart on behalf of your competition. I suspect that you'll see your judgement tomorrow.

It's more like different content. Yeah, it's a lot less words, and it's not content that Micah is interested in, but it's content that's worth quite a bit (in fact, I'm positive that WotC makes WAY LESS MONEY per unit on the Starter than they do on the PHB). Believe it or not, it's still a...

Yeah, I understand what you mean, but I whole-heartedly disagree with you. I get that you had a bad experience, and maybe you're right that FOR YOU (and your group) it would have been a better idea, but for most people (I've taught a LOT of people to play D&D) this Starter is the best thing that...

Okay, @humble minion & @bedir than, your ingredients will be posted at 9am PDT September 26th (or just under 15 hours from the time-stamp on this post). I pushed it back an hour from my suggestion to get it done before bedir's conference, but not so much that you don't get enough warning.

OKAY, so Match 2 will be @humble minion vs @bedir than. When shall we start? You both okay with tomorrow? Let me know if September 26 at 10AM PDT is too early for you. I could push it back to later in the day, if you prefer.

... That said, yes, you need people to not actively work against themselves learning new things. (Note: I am NOT saying that @GreyLord's group were doing that, at least, not on purpose. As I've tried to point out before: Mistakes happen.)

I make no assumptions about what people know and don't know when I teach people to play D&D - it's just soooo much easier to succeed that way!