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While running today's Level Up game, my wife (who co-DMs with me on this game but plays an Aspirant cleric in my other campaign) realised that our player running an Aspirant cleric had much weaker abilities than she remembered. The current version of the archetype on a5e.tools says that Fighting...

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...

I normally check the D&D Older Editions subforum for OSR stuff, but I noticed that @Mannahnin's OSE house rules thread was on the general D&D subforum with its own proper tag. So I'm guessing the D&D subform also covers OSR to an extent? I feel like that might dilute OSR threads (and it's not...

So I think A5E's new Adventuring Day guidelines in Trials & Treasures are a fantastic tweak to O5E. Reducing in earlier levels the number of encounters a party is expected to go through in one Long Rest and increasing it in later levels makes the game's pacing far better in my opinion. But...

A player mentioned they want to get a Prestige Class in the future in a Level Up campaign I want to start, and I was a bit surprised. I actually didn't know that A5E had Prestige Classes! Anyway, a quick delve into the Zeitgeist book and I see that there is an interesting selection of PrCs. So...

So I've been delving back into 5E's fundamental math for a bit, and the summon spells (all different variations of it) have me stumped. When it comes to calculating a spell's power level, 5E's fundamental math is of some help. We know there is a certain ratio in each monster's hit points, attack...

Please note that this is a [+] thread. If you think it is impossible to represent D&D 5E's flavour within the OSE framework, you're entitled to your opinion. However, what I really want to do here is to discuss how such a representation could be done with people who think it's possible. I've...

Well, auguri's point is to wish someone happy birthday in Italian. But what about the spell? I searched the forums to see if this was ever discussed since 5E's launch, but since it wasn't, here I am. So... What's the point of Augury? As a DM, whenever my players cast it, I felt like the only...

This is a discussion I wanted to spin off from the thread about the Percussion and String specialties, mostly following @steels12's comment there: So after I read his comment, I checked the Bard abilities on my Adventurer's Guide, and I have to admit that the Bard seems to get a series of...

So, I know that A5E classes is usually fairly compatible with their O5E subclasses, and for subclasses that exist in both games, the A5E version usually works better because it is designed for this game specifically. But one area where I'm rather disappointed is the subclass options for...

I have professed my dislike of OneD&D and its design philosophy quite extensively in these forums. There is, however, one thing that I quite liked in the playtests: Futureproofing class and spell lists by giving them categories. I like the Arcane/Divine/Primal divisions.* I think the...

Friends, some of you may know I'm from Turkey, and 10 cities in Turkey as well as Northern Syria were struck by two massive earthquakes on February 6. In a rare disaster, we had one earthquake that struck at 4 AM, getting many people in the sleep, and a second one at noon that further demolished...

Hey all! This is something that's been bugging me for a while, but I crunched the numbers only recently so I'm hoping to get feedback — either from those who use the A5E rules, or hopefully the ones who designed the Stronghold rules themselves! Thing is, there is a clear discrepancy between...

So, yesterday was also when Opening Arguments (a podcast hosted by a Harvard law graduate and a non-lawyer) released their episode where they analyse the OGL v1.1 and Linda Codega's coverage of the debacle in particular. I was particularly concerned by the attitude they give on social media...

I've gotten really into the expected wealth by level tables in A5E as well as O5E. For O5E, people mostly calculate the expected wealth by level using the expected number of Treasure Hoard rolls (the person in charge of A5E's treasure calculations Paul Hughes even calculated them in his own blog...

I was just going to check something on the a5e.tools website, but it seems that the site is down. downforeveryoneorjustme also confirms it. Is it a scheduled maintenance or an unexpected crash?

So, as someone who's expressed his distaste for D&D's new direction multiple times in the forums, I'm starting to think of formally expanding my horizons. Dropping D&D 5E/One D&D as my main game and using someone else as my default. One option I've been considering was OSR games (OSE in...

This is a thought that occurred to me after reading some of the discussions in the bonus languages for One D&D backgrounds thread here. I think the discussion points to a larger problem in D&D's philosophy, which is this: As a game, D&D doesn't really know what to do with languages. This isn't...

I've been looking at the Stronghold rules for an upcoming high-level game where the players will have gained strongholds over the timeskip, and I realised that the numbers between building and rural strongholds is slightly off. The price of equivalent strongholds is usually the same for the two...

The topic I'm discussing only applies to a specific subset of TTRPGs: Namely, those with an item/wealth-based progression. D&D is the ur-example of course, what with dungeon delving and treasure seeking being the primary motivator in the early days of the game. I'm well aware that this isn't...