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Is it me or did they completely change the infusion system with replicate magic item? I couldn't see that feature, but I also didn't see any mention of infusions being removed.

I voted for Preference and Familiarity. I actually like D&D and its unique stuff compared to other systems - Vancian magic, turn-based combat, levels and all. But also familiarity - I've been running 5e since 2015 so it's easy for me to eyeball stuff for it, and even with OSR the common DNA...

I thought this point was already settled in the "Whatever happened with 4E" panel thread, but then I saw people saying things such as "the person who spoke during that panel is a hack of a historian so the point was obviously not true (???)", so while I'm hoping we can stop re-litigating at...

WoW (especially during the Classic era) had a lot of mechanics that felt like old-school D&D, things like some spells needing reagents and training being a costly thing and stuff like Paladins and Druids getting their unique skills like Wild Shapes and Summon Steeds through challenging...

I agree with this, and I think the poll is a bit oddly designed in that regard: I would've preferred if "I will continue to play 2014 5E" and "I will continue to play 2024 5E" were different options, since there is considerable difference between the two (not just mechanics-wise, but also...

I mean, the forums have 245000 members in total, while only 123 people responded to this poll. So the sample probably isn't very representative (on top of it being in TTRPG General which skews extra-D&D, as two other people pointed out before me).

Do we know if Exandria will be one of the six campaign frames? It seems likely to me given how Campaign 3 recently ended, and to say it without spoilers, seems to be pushing the game away from the classic D&D framework...

For the vast majority of my games, I'm switching to Level Up, since I like its additions to the 5e chassis better than the other options (expertise die, manoeuvres, strongholds, class rework with more exploration features etc.), and it's largely compatible with O5E (where I like almost...

I can definitely see Nale being an unwilling operative for IFCC causing their plan to fail in the end - maybe he'll warn the Order or disobey IFCC's order at a key moment, but forcing him back to the world of living after he decided he had enough of it will be IFCC's fatal mistake.

My experience with FG (which was around 5 years ago, just before FGU came out) was that it is complicated in a different way and to different people. With Foundry, the difficult part is for the GM, and it's mostly technical. Setting up modules, customising systems and debugging takes time. But...

I evangelised Foundry a lot to everyone I knew, customised my games with almost a hundred plugins, rewrote some of the system files to change things like encumbrance systems, tried to automate everything in my players' sheets... But then not only was the automation very unreliable (especially...

I should note that what I analysed there was a preview of the CC release, and then they ended up releasing the entire SRD 5.1 into CC, so the analysis I made there is incorrect.

I agree that it's still not the best design for an app (after all, you could just have the healing dice roll etc. queried immediately to the stat block page instead of having awkward hover-over text), but I can at least understand why they chose this frankly useless and counter-intuitive design...

I showed this stat block to my game group, and one of my players made a very pertinent point: This is optimised for D&D Beyond and Project Sigil. Sure, having an awkward sentence where the word Spellcasting is repeated three times without mentioning what the die roll for Healing Word is very...

I agree with @Deset Gled that this could be an okay scenario you can use... Once. I think it can be interesting if certain enemies can mess with the game's ground rules and assumptions and force you to think out of the box, but do it more than once and people start to get annoyed. So really...

I nominate Dolmenwood by Necrotic Gnome, which I think it was supposed to be released now, but since no release, I'm guessing it'll get a public release for 2025: About Dolmenwood

I'm not sure if I understand this right: Does a single horde monster stat block represent multiple monsters (like a squad stat block), or do I need to put 30 horde kobold stat blocks on the table if I want my party to fight 30 kobolds?

I think some of his work was middling, but Perkins is clearly someone with passion for D&D and a deep knowledge of older editions. I heavily dislike the flair D&D has ever since Crawford became more prominent than the rest of the 5e trio (Mearls & Perkins), so I have reason to believe those...

I think the "Oh no, WotC is adding more ways to make a house party fun and you guys are saying they're doing a bad job because they don't provide anything to make the party fun for the host!" argument is missing a point. It's not that players getting more options is a bad thing. It's not even...

This should not be taken as me pooping on other people's fun, but I've seen 3-4 threads in a row where recent replies were only an image with an Impact-font meme. Again, I don't think this is bad or nefarious, but I'm just a bit confused. Is there a new feature that was added that people are...