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Isn’t that an implicit problem for like, 90% of the monster manual 🤣 …? "Let the one who never kicked in the door roll the first initiative die…" 🥲

What is the problem with Gruumsh now? I missed that memo.

Sure, that’s fine, and I’m sure Tareks came into play in some people’s campaigns. They never did in the various DS campaigns I DMed across 2e and 3.5e because I never heard of them until your post. I must not have read the "right" book/page, though I did consume a bunch of DS content over the...

Honestly, I think it may be fine if they just put out a generic splatbook with a bunch of subclasses, including those we’ve seen from the apocalypse themed UA and maybe a few more… and call it a day. Those who know what they’re for likely already have or know where to get the relevant fluff. As...

That is correct AFAIK. Only evidence of mating.

It must feel very different. Interesting though!

For sure. But that is kind of a by-product of there being no other intelligent humanoids on this Earth (and as far as I know we can’t mate with octopi). Although even that is controversial, since there appears to be evidence that homo sapiens interbred with neanderthals. We then killed them all...

Wow that’s cool, I hadn’t seen those flasks before. Makes me think of Asterix’s invincible strength gourd that he carries at his belt and never seems to dry up for the whole adventure 🤣

I’ve been thinking of an alternative scheme, though I’m not sure that it could be viable as a lightweight tweak. Rather, it may require changing all the classes, which is probably too much work, but anyway 😅 … The general idea would be to do some kind of intermediary system between 3.5e and 5e...

Well… if you were the DM of a game with such multi-ethnic character creation rules, and you thought it was too powerful, or cheesy, or whatever reason for disliking it, there would be a pretty easy solution… Just say that in your campaign world, the tyrannical forces that lead each nations are...

Keying some abilities off of being bloodied in 4e was a neat way to do that… though I haven’t come across this yet in 5e (are there any cases?) In terms of risk/rewards for resting vs pushing forward… the "deadline to save the world" trope is a pretty decent one I think, and feels more organic...

Since 5e 2024 moves most benefits from race/species to backgrounds (which I don’t mind… it’s fine…) it would actually have been somewhat trivial to let any species mix with any other. Pick one ability from one specie and another ability from the other specie, pretty much. Little bit of a...

Good points. When I mentioned the phenomenon of "resting fully in two days, the first of which is dedicated to spending slots on healing", I didn’t mean to say that it was unimportant. Of course, if you’re at the inn, then the only impact is that you’ll pay for your rooms one extra night...

Throwing a hot take out there… I find that eliminating the half-races / half-breeds / half-species / whatever you want to call it, from 5e 2024 is pretty racist… As if people with mixed ancestry didn’t exist. I have mixed ancestry IRL and I am proud of it. Has there been abuses related to...

I think the restrictions were important… the world had no orcs, gnomes and many other race/species for a very specific reason. Look it up if you’d like, I won’t share a spoiler. But regardless of the reason why, the outcome is that it was a change of scenery. It allowed us to play a fantasy game...

It means that it was not racially-determined (as the American South did it). Rather, all races could be slaves (as the Romans did it).

Thanks for taking us down memory lane! This is great stuff. It’s very interesting to see the trajectory of healing rates across editions. All in all, I think we can say that average parties in both 2e and 3.5e could heal much faster than these "natural" rates by spending their divine casters’...

That’s interesting, I wasn’t aware of that. I’ve only recently begun learning about 2024 and am not an expert in it yet. I noticed that the Gritty Realism rest rules from 2014 are missing from 2024, but I had not yet come across what you’re referring to about the rest rules. I need to go check...

Agreed. And that signaling goes both ways. The DM should listen to what the players are signaling, and players should listen to the clues (explicit or not) given by the DM. Both "sides" of this cooperative story-telling adventure we all love have an impact, though I think in many cases the DM is...

What’s wrong with having a highway in the Underdark? Creatures need to get to where they’re going, no matter the depth.