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Micah doesn't want to support Hasbro/WotC, but they do want to support 3PP. If 3PP follow in WotC's footsteps, then they will not like the 3PP stuff. At least that is what I believe is their reason.

That is basically word salad. Do you have any examples you can share? I am particularly interested in where the 5e24 rules have done the bold part above. I assume it is player side rules (since I pay less attention to those), but I could be wrong. I can't really think of anything on the DM side.

It doesn't seem like you read my post (or you wouldn't make the above arguments) and this is not an interesting or important line of discussion to me so I will drop it.

Yes, I was talking about their background (as opposed to the guard or soldier background). Well there is no half prof. Mind you at level 1 prof. is a +2 bonus. So tech. my son doesn't have prof. in all those items, but it doesn't matter practically IMO. I wasn't trying to say he is exactly...

I thought about 3 boxes, but not everyone likes to play novice characters so I split it out. However, I would make them all optional. You could start with box 1 or box 3, it doesn't matter. Play the game you want to play. Also, I would make box 1 & 2 completely compatible, only differing in...

IDK. A level 1 fighter could be a farmer (with no sword training) starting on there 1st adventure. They get a +2 to hit (prof.) that is roughly a 10% improvement over a commoner (he has that at least), fighting style check (he has unarmed fighting - region champ in judo, defense, and great...

It works for us. We have considered capping at 16 even

No sense for a mundane fighter either. My son has trained in longsword fighting for the past year and I can guarantee you he can't hit a person outside the reach of his movement and weapon. He is, at this point, at least as well trained as level 1 D&D fighter. Furthermore, he can train all his...

Fine, but it makes no sense to be that good at level 1 (plus swords can't do that)

I said in my response - IDK. Not on me to do your homework Actually I just checked. You derive the scoreduring character creation but only to determine the modifier. Then you never see the score again.

I wouldn't mind if they were all add-ons - the BECMI boxed sets are still my favorite. So: Novice Box: 0-2 Heroes Box: levels 3-10 Legends Box: levels 11-20 Mythic Box: levels 21-30 Immortals Box: levels 31-60

yes, it is filler when I need somethig more than the simple stat block gives me. Which is about 5% of the time. So why make something more complex when I don't use it or it is detrimental 95% of the time? Now, as you know I like designing complex monsters a lot, like a whole lot. I just find...

IDK, check out PF2?

I was reacting to the use of a cell phone at the table, noting about cell phones

To be fair, WotC has tried different things with 5e too: lair actions, legendary actions, legendary resistance (some monsters have it and not LA and vice versa I think), "legendary" resistance (think Vecna and time dragons), and my favorite mythic trait/actions.

I agree the flexibility was a good thing. Those extra actions often also often gave an option to remove a condition if you couldn't act at that initiative count. Which was helped, though lose your action, but not better than what I have seen people do with legendary monsters. I guess it is not...

Yes, I think probably the hardest thing is, much like all of D&D, there is not one answer to cover what everyone wants / needs in a monster. You can't please everyone. What works for one DM may not work for another - we are all different.

This is from the 5e14 DMG, but I believe these are in the 5e24 DMG too (There is also the area of effect rules but they are tucked into my houserules section so I didn't include it in the snip of my DM cheat sheet): I simply determine the difficulty of the task, use the DC, and then use the...

4e monsters didn't get extra turns generally. A few did, but it wasn't standard practice. Now in late 4e "instinctive" actions became a thing and they allowed a specific action at your initiative +10, but that is not a full turn. Unless you are talking about action points which I always forget...