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There is always just presenting them with so many coins and bullion bars that they cannot be accurately counted in a short matter of time. Counting, organizing, and transporting all of it would in itself be a major undertaking as it involves tons of metals and probably taking weeks. Such an...

Several golden statues of people in various dramatic poses or looks of horror on their faces. In many cases, it looks like they were meant to be holding items, but those are now missing. (Actually ancient heroes that have been petrified and covered with gold leaf which obscures the fine detail...

Have a large basilica. Take the original St. Peter's or Trajan's Forum and market as visual examples. Large front gate with buildings that have the market offices. Just inside is a large open area that is rented out plot by plot, now filled with non-permanent stalls acting like a farmer's...

In a hoard worthy of Tiamat? Do what one DM did to us and have there be expensive objects d'art consisting of golden stautes exhibiting mindflayer yaoi. Not much worth to it beyond melting it down unless you go through the trouble of finding a buyer that is actually interested which is an...

Eh, if you are a patrolling guard, then it makes sense to get Dex. Need to be quick to run and get the guy you see, or run back and raise the alarm. Still, there's only 13 backgrounds? Not enough to be nearly comprehensive. Works fine for new players or experienced players for the first...

The main issue with this is that adventurers are more like the hunters that killed off the buffalo for the railroads rather than the Native Americans that lived off of them. Except for high value items such as alchemy reagents or material components for spells or making magic items, it is...

I make my own. Just made one today. About a third of a pound of ground beef seasoned with salt, Worcestershire Sauce, and Sadaf brand Ras al Hanout fried in butter. On a brioche bun with mayo and BBQ sauce, topped with cheddar cheese, pickles, and three strips of thick sliced bacon.

It's pretty much what others have said. People these days seem to like that quick leveling with lots of powers. Another thing I notice as somebody playing D&D for the 45 years is that it is just more gonzo because of all the new things that have been added.* Out of the last three games, I think...

It was a thought, but never tested. It was designed to be in PCs favor with the assumption that every party would have their own primary person to take such actions and with 5E's preference to have very high stats and proficiency in desired skill would usually be +7 at 1st level. I may have even...

Not quite sure if it what you mean by cinematic rules, but since interaction is so unsupported in the rules, I have thought about using something similar to Forged in the Darkness for that. Basing desired free play actions off of the skills with a negotiated results such as: 1-5 No, and... 6-10...

I played it and I liked it. We played it instead of BX and BECMI and even had arguments with others about it. (we did use Mystara as a setting though sometimes). It was a mess of rules and we'd literally sit and read the books to find rules and subsystem we didn't even know existed earlier while...

My current gaming group, which is playing 5.14 right now after finishing a 5.24 game, is specifically about playing new games we have never played before.* We were testing out the 5.24 system and now are playing Eberron for the frist time. We all have a couple of games in the wings to play. I've...

You didn't say tabletop, so that is five different ongoing LARPs for me right there this year. ETA: Tabletop alone is around four or five not including different editions of D&D this year. Have played in the past and willing to play ongoing games again, probably at least a hundred.

They should have. It's been a thing since at least 1E. Using a mirror of mental prowess to jump into single room encounters, defeat them, and leave like some fantasy medieval special forces unit. That's the time I decided all the giants of G3 just packed up all their stuff and deserted the...

Only 30-40 as up until two months ago, we were playing Gloomhaven.

Well, different people play the game for different reasons. Some treat it as a strict game with win and lose conditions. Others just want the drama and story it creates. Others just want to be immersed in what they expect it to be. I can't really argue against that as I have met plenty of...

Still new to 5E and just yesterday read the Invisible condition details and went back and read the thread on it here. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if somebody from WotC said something like "We purposely made bad rules that didn't work throughout the game to teach new DMs that they had...

Ya, in 1E&2E, saves just got better from 1st level on. So everybody should have saved except on sub 5 rolls without bonuses. Save or Suck spells existed and flew, but usually they just didn't do anything, but in that small chance laid a risk worth taking and to be feared. Seems the design of the...

I would have expected that if it was disruptive, it would be in unexpected uses of an nigh-indestructible dome. Protecting the Mcguffin from the bad guy for 8 hours. Sealing off a gate or mountain pass from the enemy. All sorts of weirdness could come from the DM's judgement on casting the thing...

I've used hags for effect before. Less as an antagonists, and more in "Sometimes the village faces threats nobody will help us with. Nobody except for the hags of the marsh, but they demand a price." They exist in symbiosis with the villagers and unlike the lords, will usually hold to their...