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I'm sure the WotC people don't know or care. It is just a silly game rule. But casting a spell a mile a away? Okay, so this does not seem to be all that powerful an effect. Useful, sure, but not game breaking. WotC is a watered down safe version Ed's Cricle magic is evil and destroyer the...

The game is presented as many, many monsters don't use magic? I don't see it. Sure, lazy cheep WotC can't be bothered to type any lore or even put a magic using monster variant for each monster. They can't be bothered with an "Orc Hexbalde". WotC makes the game....poorly.....much like...

Most of the OSR games are simple. Daggerheart is "D&D lite". Really 5E is simple enough. For kids of that age I just make simple characters. AC and HP. Just one generic Save. Abilities just do damage. It works out just fine. Check out your local train hobby store, they often have lots...

This is why I tell people to run high power, high fantasy, high magic games. The setting where the PCs have all powerful unbeatable magic.....and the whole world has sharp sticks....it not a great setting. Sure the players love it "nahnah, nobody, even a God can break into our Tiny Hut...

I see it effect other games often, though games that already have massive problems like a passive DM. Such groups do the "five minute day trick" often. They attack, then cast the spell and rest, then attack at full power again. Some groups use it as a tactical platform, where the wizard and...

5 games a week, 4-8 hours each, so roughly 30-35 hours a week. Plus maybe a pick up game or two for another couple hours.

I have done it often with large groups. I don't really like more then five players, so often enough a sith will join as an animal. I will keep them as 'just an animal" for stats, but then they likely won't do much combat. It is a great way for a new player to tag along and experience the...

I ignore such badly written 5E stuff. I have and will always do "detect invisibility' as you see the person/object with a bit of a shimmer and twinkle. And use the 3.5E part of "Such creatures or objects are visible to you as translucent shapes, allowing you easily to discern the difference...

*The Twilight of 1E--In the late 80's 1E had a odd place. The game was played by many groups, but in near secret. The age of where a couple of guys played a "secret game" and they let few join them. 1E books were few and far between. This was also the age of the crazy photo copies of the...

I do both, it is one of the reason I run around five games or so. I can have a mix of Hope and Despair. I have one Spelljammer game of each. One Classic Space Shawbucklers Western with Crystal Spheres full of hope...and Giant Space Hamsters. The other is pure Despair, with a crew of drow in...

We see Kekio run the arboretum. Mot is a barber. Guinin is a bar tender. And Ten Forward has waiters and waitresses. And we see a teacher or two. But I guess some people would just do nothing? The couple of times the Enterprise is evacuated we sure see a TON of civilians(or maybe they are...

Or Bane could kill them! Kill Torm, Again...."This time pretty boy you stay dead" As Illmater hurts himself more or whatever, Bane can slap him out of the way "You want to be the broken god, I'll snap you into 1000 pieces!" Then as blind one handed Tyr limps over with his little hammer Ban...

I mostly agree. The big problem with Keiko is that she just does not fit in the the group of 'space adventure people'. When you have a subspace doo dad inverting reality it just does not fit to say "find the botanist lady and see if she can reconfigure the subspace DNA!" Keiko is on the sub...

Once Upon a Time in the Realms of the Time Before Time: Bane Said: Not again! It won’t happen again!«Eyes ablaze with uncontrolled fire, the god sprayed bolts of lightning on all who cringed before him. Those that missed showered through the sky and onto the innocent and unsuspecting population...

I can't wait to be disappointed.....again.

In 5E/ 1500ish FR....no, never. Bane is a good correct villain that only does "Disney Bad" things. Classic Realms: Yes. It is mentioned plenty of times in the older FR books. 3E even had rules for it.....

Everything old does get new again. Everything seems to circle back.

I have dealt with this issue. One things that works is to help them get prepared. Give the player 'flash cards' with actions on them. Then they just pick an action. And they often pick the 'hide' or 'take cover' card, but it works out great.

I generally do daily initiative, so it is just one roll per game day...and characters might just be 'fast or slow' that day. I love descriptions for bonuses and I go from 1-5 for most rolls. If a player can describe a nice bit of something their character is doing it is worth a bonus. A big...

Really, it was exactly the same as it is today. There always is a bulk of players that stand by the rulebooks. If the rulebook(s) say X, then many players will say that is the only way.