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As someone who also uses Roll20, could you share that macro?

I've considered this quite a bit over the years, and I've come to the conclusion that you set the duration of everything to the End of the Next Round. While this makes lasting effects overall longer, it gives every effect a minimum of 1 full round of effect and encourages the benefit of high...

Zygag, of course ;)

In the middle of Vecna: Eve of Ruin, so we're not going to switch mid-campaign. However, we have started implementing some of the general rule changes, such as surprise and the ability to draw weapons as part of the attack action.

Every other coin is 1/10 the value of the next coin, making it the odd coin out.

I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but from everything I've seen/heard, it's geared much more towards new DMs. I'll probably reference it more frequently than I did the 2014 DMG, which was almost never. Likely I'll copy a handful of pages that I'll need for my DM screen. TBF, they read...

Lol. I once suggested the following exchange rate, and everyone pitched a fit about how impossible it would be to remember: 100 cp = 20 sp = 10 ep = 4 gp = 1 pp. Then I pointed out it's just penny, nickle, dime, quarter, dollar...

No, copper and platinum would still be around, I just didn't include them in the specifics. The final would be 10,000 cp = 1,000 sp = 100 ep = 10 gp = 1 pp. Gold would be the new platinum, and platinum would be a new tier above that. Personally, I'd love to go back to the AD&D exchange rate...

As a grognard, I understand the purpose of the electrum piece pre-3E. For those of you unaware, it used to be 1000 cp = 100 sp = 10 ep = 1 pp, with 2 ep = 1 gp as today, which (supposedly) was an approximate medieval exchange rate. Gp was still the standard, but you often carried small coins...

I think the concepts are interesting, but I'm not a fan of the formatting for most. Since I play exclusivly on Roll20, I think I'll reformat them as handouts there.

Healer's Kits don't have charges or an associated action. To stabilize requires Wisdom/Medicine DC: 15, and the check is made at disadvantage if using a healer's kit with both hands. While magical healing is still common, if the healer goes down, it's a problem to get them back up. Short rests...

Heraldry Tools Intelligence You can determine the rank and proper title of nobility.

How dare you try to prevent 10+ pages of circular argument on this topic?!?

From what I've heard, that was Gary's plan though. He was going to assume that everyone started at 576 CY, with the first folio covering the Flanaess, then he was going to write more about the rest of the world later. Obviously that never came to be, sadly.

But those places need not be large. Halflings and gnomes lack any kingdoms or nation states; they live in small communities scattered throughout other people's lands. The new races can easily be the same.

Unique spells were something from older editions that helped differentiate clerics of different faiths, so I'm all for it.

I'm old school, so when I design dungeons, most hallways are 10ft wide and most rooms are at least 20x30. Think of it this way: if the dungeon is big enough to support large creatures living inside of it, which is a common thing in D&D, then it should be big enough to support a mounted...

If players were really that invested in balance, 4E would have been the most successful edition of all time. Instead, players care about how things feel; they want a lot of variety of experiences. This means that some things are going to be more powerful than others at certain times, because...

I honestly felt this should have been the way to go. Not necessarily forcing two schools into a single subclass, but having mage archetypes instead. The Beguiler was an obvious one, as was the War Mage. I would have just kept the Necromancer and Summoner (Conjurer) based on a single school, as I...

It really depends on the type of game. I use random encounters all the time in 5E. It has a twofold purpose: it encourages the players to not waste time and it drains resources from the party. Of course, standard 5E doesn't do this second part particularly well, since the party can often long...