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The Con bonus isn't per level, it's per hit die. 1e rangers got two hit dice at first level, so they get that bonus to hit points for Con twice. That's how they get to 24 hp at first level for having an 18 Con.

5e. It's my favorite D&D variety - why would I switch just for dungeon crawling?

I think my general path is similar. I started with Holmes as well, went quickly to 1e AD&D and moved up through the versions, side tracked to Pathfinder during 4e's run since it didn't sit well with me, and am thoroughly enjoying 5e. For my money, 5e is more akin to AD&D's feel than any of the...

It's not like we own anybody our belief either. You want to be believed when you make an assertion? Back it up with the receipts otherwise you might as well be blowing smoke.

Man, that brings back memories.

I think there's a degree of unevenness among the feats. A few seem kind of specialized in their benefits. And if any player in an adventuring group I'm in takes Mythal Touched, I'm either gonna slap them or stay more than 15 feet away from them at all times.

That would have offered a much stronger balancing factor. Or requiring it to be on the helper's own spell list would have been less strong, but still offered some restriction (while allowing lowly acolytes to help the high priest of the cult). But as these rules work now... pretty much anything...

In the 5e.2014 rules, high level monks will also vex you DMing a high level game because of the way they can spam stunning strikes. Most monsters, even high level ones, aren't immune to being stunned. While it's a great way to peel off legendary resistance, it is otherwise pretty frustrating...

Enemies can get access to pack tactics but that ability tends to be given to lower-CR creatures - which is good. They'll need that to appropriately threaten PCs at lower levels. But by the time they're facing the high AC/displaced PC, they're often only hitting on 20s anyway. Higher CR monsters...

High AC characters with a cloak of displacement suck. Fighters with high end magic armor, magic shields, and cloaks of displacement will annoy you. High AC is hard enough to hit without disadvantage in doing so - so you'll have to constantly work hard to strip that disadvantage from them to even...

Don't allow silvery barbs as a spell in your campaign unless you're explicitly running Strixhaven. It just gets more and more annoying. Crits are a delight not just for players to get, but for DMs to finally lay a bit of smack down on a high hit point character. Don't let PCs take that away from...

Considering people are always yapping on about casters' abilities to warp reality and how it increases with level (the ol' linear fighter/quadratic wizard chestnut), it's a particularly important principle to emphasize at high levels. Lower levels, when the power differential in that regard is...

High level characters put out a lot of damage. The easiest way to boost high level monsters is to boost their hit points so they last longer. I did a lot of this in my high-level campaign.

Yes, blacksmith montages are a thing - particularly if you have dwarven fighters. They'll want to craft their signature weapon (in my high-level campaign's case, it was a dwarven thrower). But, specific montage examples aside, the generalization of that idea is that casters, particularly...

I can assure you that there were new players who came to 3e who had been reluctant to play earlier editions. 3e may have a lot of features that were responsive to optimizers, but it also built the game around more regular and systematic mechanics than previous editions with their diverse...

He's obviously trolling. Don't feed the trolls.

If you aren't sure about using this as a DM but your players want to, just suggest this scenario to them and ask if they still want it: Suppose a trio of cultists circle cast a banishment or heat metal on your heaviest hitter of a PC then use distribute to distribute concentration. You still...

Well now, that's a nice sentiment but I'm under no illusion Canada declared war because the US was attacked. I know that Japan also attacked the British Empire in Hong Kong and Malaya and declared war on the UK and Canada the same day Pearl Harbor was attacked. Canadians may be stalwart allies...

And there IT is again. Suppressing the symptom, but not the cause.

I find it weird that it's thought of an oddity considering GenCon had been doing it when I started going to conventions back in 1983. I mean if the Big Daddy of RPG-industry conventions does it, how odd can it be?