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My personal list would be: Best story/experience: Planescape: Torment, perhaps even the best game, but in spite of its D&D heritage. Seriously, the D&D parts just weigh that game down. Best challenge: Icewind Dale II, great, great D&D game with a focus on combat, strategy and tactics Best...

At one point feats were much meatier and closer to subclasses or prestige classes. The whole system was more open and there were a lot more options to tweak your character in various ways. Dito martial and skill dice. More options were sensible or evocative enough to be played while now...

5e is going to be four years old soon, so I'm guessing most people have played at least several campaigns by now so we have a decent sample size (this is just an informal survey however, not conclusive or scientific in any way.) What I'm wondering is, when people play a 5e fighter, how often do...

I've been saying for...how long has it been? Close to ten years now that 4e was a natural evolution of the 3.x actual play experience. It's so damn ironic. Literally everything design decision in 4e was an attempt to address, fix, streamline and expand on what happened in an actual game of 3.x...

Breaking down the class abilities into "feats" and giving you a free choice of which ones you want to take is something I've wanted in my D&D for so long. I even tried to hack 5e for it but it's too much work for the amount of free time I have. If the feats are actually balanced with no trap...

Why does the concept art so often look better than the final illustration.

I have to say, this is completely baffling to me. I knew 5e was very popular, and PF was trailing so that's not a surprise, but the other games' numbers really confuse me.

Our current game started with 1d8+7 in order although I'm thinking of changing it for 2d4+7 for future characters. It keeps the good old "take what fate dealt you" feel of 3d6 in order, except it's impossible to get nigh-unudable stats or for someone to roll really well on several stats leaving...

-Horses and ships and other modes of transport -Taxes, bribes, payment for servants and hirelings -Real estate -Donations and sacrifices for temples and gods -Better/more equipment -Royal lifestyle expenses -Trade goods to be traded for more money That's the reason people get money. Power...

For those that said Al-quadim or Arabian Nights, what kind of mechanical/5e specific stuff would you require? I'm working on a setting/game that partially covers those regions but it will be another system/system neutral. You can answer in private not to derail the thread.

Well, strictly speaking, Passive Perception is not a check, to which Expertise applies. It's a static number. So unless it's specified somewhere else in the text, my call would be no.

Funny you should say that, because Mike Mornard who was in Gygax's original group said their sessions were kinda like WoW, too.

You're both implying some heavy stuff. First of all, we haven't seen all the magic items and monsters yet. Second, magic items are not a necessary part of the game anyway. Third, the fighter in the playtest was absolutely a force to be reconed with. They since removed the "you can't die from...

This might not be relevant to Basic, but in the playtest there was an archery feat that let you ignore cover if I remember correctly, so that distinction might be important elsewhere. There's also the issue of the rare fringe cases where you have an invisible/concealend AND covered opponent...

Action economy > Hit Points Guaranteed increase in HP > % chance of HP loss Preemptive healing might not be as usefull, but if your fighter is down (or almost down), healing him means he now has ~8 HP. Depending on the damage output and attack bonus of the monster and whether the fighter still...

I feel a bit bad for R. I think the Basic Cleric is explicitly not a laser cleric, so there was no way for him to play that option. I hope he still had fun!

Can you say what adventure you're playing/what monsters you're fighting. If it's Phandelver, supposedly it gets harder fast. If you're using playtest monsters (since there aren't any in Basic yet) they are notably underpowered. It seems like your party was just under no pressure at all at amy...

I had not noticed it, but the lack of a Hinder action makes me sad. I think I know why they removed it (to protect the utility of various spells and class abilities that may provide disadvantage to monsters), but still. I wanted to see my archer shoot an orc in his flailing arm and protect my...

You know, I've just re-read the armour section and I don't understand what you guys are saying. Armour sets your base AC to which you add your Dex modifier. So if you're wearing, say, chain mail (AC 16), and have a Dexterity of 6 (-2), your AC is 14. How is this different from how it worked in...

The mistake of 3rd edition was that the DC scaled way more than saves, and in the end the disparity was way larger. For example, a level 20 Fighter in 3E, while fighting a foe of an appropriate CR, might have to make a DC 32 save. If we don't include magic items, then if it's his strong save...