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Well the wilderness has trolls, wyverns, and the occasional dragon turtle, but yes, the kind of stuff liable to bother you camping in the woods are not the stuff that 15th level characters are likely to be afraid of, so much as annoyed at. But at that level, why are you camping at all, when you...

The Wandering Damage tables only come up in the lair of the Dragon of Lirpa Loof, overseen by the mad mage Kimmohan. Seriously tho, the encounters on the table are built with encounter budgets, sure, but that's kind of irrelevant to the daily budget idea. The encounters range from CR 0 (for...

Honestly, the idea of daily XP budget has never really registered with me anyway. I know such things exist, but I can't seem to find a way to make them relevant. I try to build scenarios with a naturalistic focus, so there are a pretty wide variety of safe spots, dangerous spots, and spots that...

This sums up my feelings on that subject beautifully. "Razor Net Master" hit the nail right on the head. :) -The Gneech :cool:

"Should be competent at both" implied it! ;P Although it sounds like you may be saying rangers should be total switch hitters by default. I don't think having a specialization is bad per se– (movie) Aragorn didn't dazzle as an archer even if he was handy with a bastard sword– but he was...

Basically, because CR is calculated differently in 5E than in older editions. In 3E/4E you could assume "+2 to hit and +10 hp = +1 CR" (or however the math worked out, it's been a long time since I looked at the specifics) and it would be close enough for getting on with. In 5E, a change like...

I think you've got a good point here, although it's probably overstating it to say that a ranger's chosen style negates the other. STR rangers can still toss axes and spears, and DEX rangers can still use light/finesse weapons. But yeah, that was one of my bits of feedback too. The two-weapon...

I would be upset if the sorcerer went away. One of my favorite characters is an elementalist sorcerer who's not-quite-dumb-as-a-rock, but can call down fire and lightning like you wouldn't believe. She absolutely would not work as either a wizard or a warlock. -The Gneech :cool:

You can put syrup on a pizza, but that won't make it waffles. ;P Pathfinder only exists because so many people were shouting "It's not D&D!" about 4E. Whether it's a meaningful distinction to you or not, "It's not D&D" is a real thing that devs have to consider when making game design choices...

I could see "ranger" being a fighter path that gets an animal companion and wilderness bonuses, but it's too ingrained into D&D (going back to Strategic Review) to just chuck rangers out entirely. Might as well chuck magic missile. Sure you could do that, but you'd quickly get into "It's not...

Seems to me the main thing the sorcerer needs is more bloodlines. The storm sorcerer in SCAG is a decentish start, but it's too rigid; they should have made a straight-up Elemental Bloodline that allowed you to use sorcery points swap out damage types ("fireball" becomes "ball lightning,"...

Honestly, I feel like the ranger needs to be tossed and completely reworked from scratch. What we've got now is basically a re-warmed version of the 3.x ranger, who was never quite there either but at least made sense in that rule set. (I did a whole blog post about the topic last week...

Just remember that the giant octopus focuses its attacks on Frodo because he's got the Ring. *nods sagely* -TG :cool:

Certainly true! And a core Monster Manual does kinda have to hit all the high notes first. -TG :cool:

It seems to me that the easiest way to get around this is to allow creatures to do a "signature move" for free or as a bonus action. To use an example already floating around the thread, the nalfeshee's "Horror Nimbus" is baked into its multiattack action. Or for the hippogriff mentioned...

There are a few of these, primarily among the monstrous humanoids, but yes, I would like to have seen more. I was a fan of them in 3E Monster Manual IV days, and I'm still a fan now! I don't know if WotC was hedging their bets, trying to hold off content for future releases, or what. The...

Actually, the only 4E books I kept were Monster Manuals, so I could occasionally skim through looking for nifty abilities to add to the monsters in my 5E game. What I have found in practice so far, however, is that for all the "cool sounding" names, most of the 4E monster abilities still boil...

Something of a tangent, but I wonder how many games that feel like the PCs are overpowered are a result of DMs going nuts with stat bonuses and such up front to make characters more durable at 1st level, and then sorta forgetting they've done that. I'm joining a new Pathfinder game, and the stat...

Prepared modules, true, I cannot speak to as I haven't had the opportunity to use them (and honestly probably would run them as written anyway, just 'cos I usually don't). I'd like to try my hand at some high-level shenanigans in 5E to see for myself! :p Thing of it is, tho, I've always felt...

First: You might want to check out Angry DM's two-headed, two-tailed, bifurcated snake: http://theangrygm.com/return-of-the-son-of-the-dd-boss-fight-now-in-5e/ Second: Lairs and Legendary Actions were set up for just this sort of thing! Third: No boss worth their salt should be without an...