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To me the issue is that standard scenarios that I’d expect to happen in a fantasy story don’t work if a PC has flight. Heck, a bunch of published adventures don’t work if a PC has flight. -The players need to go through a dark forest filled with dangerous wolves. -The players need to climb a...

This is getting concerning. I was going to run a game using these rules but my players needed to reference this site and it has been down all week.

Action economy IS the balancing factor in 5e, generally. Most battles last 2-3 rounds so the more you can shove into those 3 rounds the better it is for you. My understanding on A5E was that the goal was to add more options without increasing power. This ability lets you do everything a Bard...

But isn’t that just free power? Most of the effects are roughly the equivalent of a spell effect so it essentially lets bards in this system cast two spells a round and still have a bonus action left for whatever they want? the action system was created to specifically prevent 3 things from...

Sure, that’s how you “turn it on“. But “at the start of your activate something" isn't the activation method for anything else in the game. So it is very weird and seems out of place in the system. There are a couple of times where you make a decision at the beginning of your turn but they are...

I am reading the rules for the first time and I’ma little confused by Battle Hymn. I read somewhere that it used to last multiple rounds and was changed to only last one but its mechanics seem really odd to me. First, it uses no action economy at all. It is free to turn it on and free to target...

I wouldn't be too sure. Attitudes are changing. I've seen a lot of posts on social media, message boards and blogs that all say that slavery should just not be depicted in ANY form (good or bad) and that there are "better stories" without having to rely on it as a crutch since its existence in...

Whatever appears in the book will DEFINITELY affect what appears in my game. I want my game to be as official as possible. I've always felt that part of my enjoyment of D&D comes from being part of the larger D&D community. Some of my least favorite interactions with other players have come from...

I think the critics today are people arguing a strawman-like argument. The changes are being made due to hypothetical situations rather than anything that’s actually happened. The argument is "What if someone was thinking of getting into D&D and they saw the word barbarian. In theory, they might...

I think the issue is: how are they "harmful"? The common answer would be that the ideas in them are bad and it is harmful to propagate those ideas by keeping them in the game because players might read them and those ideas might get into their heads making them think bad things and possibly do...

They don’t matter as much, mathematically. I’m not disagreeing that some people will say “sure I could get an extra Dex modifier but it is much more interesting to me to be lucky. I like the story that goes with that.” I make those decisions sometimes as well. But I have a head for numbers and I...

The first character I made was a Mountain Dwarf Warlock so that I could get the medium armour. I wanted to be a genie warlock and it saved my Invocations for other things giving me more power. Actually yes. The lore behind halflings in the Forgotten Realms is that the god that created them...

I’d like to disagree but that’s the way it is. Balance is hard because as long as there is a “best” option the rest of the options don’t really matter. This change narrowed the choices by putting all the races on an even playing field and removing any advantages certain races had. i was a big...

I’m a fairly big optimizer. I like to role play but not at the expense of a good character. So before this rule I would always pick a race that got plus 2 to the classes primary stat. To me most racial features beyond stats are negligible. So if I needed charisma I chose between the charisma...

Here’s the deal. I was at GenCon shortly after Jeremy Crawford was announced as The Sage. He was wandering the D&D gaming room so I went over and talked to him about his philosophy on errata. He said he didn’t like errata because it fractured the player base. Some people didn’t have internet...

I think if you factor in a lot of the optional steps then there are plenty. The problem is that complexity doesn't always translate to complication. It always has that potential, however. For instance, my experience playing 3.5e was that the complexity(or the sheer number of options, if you'd...

To be fair, that page is talking about optional addons to the game. Which implies that the default is that those addons are not used. Most of the DMG is basically: "So, you've decided you don't want to play D&D the 'normal' way and want to change things up, here are some things we decided were...

Ball Bearings and Hunting Traps are things that get in your allies way, and most combat doesn't involve a lot of moving around, if the enemy is already in melee with you, it's likely they aren't moving away. Your allies won't appreciate falling on their face either. Oil doesn't do much, it does...

Of course you are aware of a threat, there's someone standing in front of you casting a fireball spell. That seems like a threat to me. It doesn't matter what they were doing BEFORE they became a threat. They are a threat now and you are aware of them. Unless you mean that you have to be aware...

There's a lot of debate as to what counts as a "Use an Object" action. LOTS of debate. Most people believe that throwing Alchemist's Fire or Holy Water is an Attack Action, since it requires an attack roll. Most of the DMs in my area rule it that way, including me, so I wouldn't try to use...