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What alignment would that be - Lawful Evil? Just make a good D&D game guys, stop trying to flood it into areas where it's just money down the drain.

I don't think I'd burn a whole session on it - nobody likes "homework" forced on them, and I could see some players seeing it as that, especially taking away from their gaming time. But I'd certainly be willing to reward players if between sessions they wrote up an NPC or monster that could...

Oh, you might be able to - but you'd have to make your own rules for it; the "vehicle" rules in Saltmarsh and Spelljammer for ship-to-ship is anemic at best (not to mention, not part of the "core" rules). Those vehicle rules are very narrative based, glossing over maneuvering, positioning and...

Pure and simply, the community has become too wound up about balance and expedience. Can't have a pet monster or follower trivialize an encounter. Extra followers skew carefully crafted fights, making them less "epic" - or "take too long" because of number of combatants. Why have 4-10 hp...

Too much magic, artificers, magitech like lightning rails and New York (Sharn). I suppose when it didn't spread to other settings, I started to be comfortable with it being limited to Eberron and could swing with it. I guess part of my initial fear/anger was with as much as they were putting...

5E's poor handling of mounts, pets, familiars and the like grates on me. They've become handicaps that have to be poke-balled to work, or a "long rest" to resurrect them from the dead to put back into the game. There's got to be a better way than using the bland stat blocks of the "beast of...

I wanted to do nothing with it when it first came out. I can't recall when that started to change, but my "try out" was to run a LOST-style game on Xendrik - purposely away from Khorvaire as I wasn't familiar with the main setting and needed a "clean slate" area where I could learn and build as...

I want those battlemats!

Well, just as you and I started at different points with different interactions to VSM, those starting with this set will get their expectations started here - and that will define their attitude towards the VSM aspect of casters and such.

VSM was ditched for B/X and BECMI in the '80s. The game was fine without it.

Yeah, it does look like an evolution on Daggerheart's character sheets. I'd forgotten about the WFRP boxed set with the cards (and how much I initially enjoyed it). That thing is dense! I can very much see this being expanded with additional card sets, like the 4E power decks for the various...

Yes, but not if the current wielder is still alive (unless, I guess, you're Elminster). That's all the DM has to say to deny you access. And I don't believe that's the only case where something like that may be true. Thinking of folks like Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Usaine Bolt and the...

Go ask the Spellfire wielder.

I skipped ahead a few pages, so forgive me if this has already been covered. One of the big things that used to come up in the old games I ran was "your character knows what you know." If someone could, for example, describe how they open a stuck door by hammering out the hinge pins and taking...

This is from Forge of Foes (which is a really good monster design book BTW). It fairly matches my play experiences, so I trust it (though I wish it tracked above 20th level PC equivalent in some way).

I'm nowhere near perfect and always learning something. As a previous "forever DM", I've been getting a serious education of what it's like to be on the player side of the screen of late. Still, point taken. I just don't like it being insinuated I'm a complete newb or moron for how my...

If I can't find a stat block for one in one of the monster books I have, would probably build it from scratch. If it was in the middle of a session, I'd find the closest pre-existing match and use that, with any bard-like mods to make it feel right (like, adding Inspiration as noted earlier)...

I would hope people are being truthful about their responses, not just bandwagoning on heresay. Since the start of 5E I had been vocal about not wanting a 6E, as I am frankly tired of edition churn for churn's sake (thanks, GW). The 2024 books come too close to an edition shift for my tastes...

Yes to all, 3 separate campaigns. I've been DMing since the 80's, and 5E since it came out. It's all to easy to accidentally fall into the trap "Okay, the players handled that last one okay, they ought to be able to handle this..." and then be wrong in some way (or straight up, an encounter...