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Fair enough. And any gaming group can certainly choose to bar what they do not want to include or to house rule whatever they want to fit their particular sensibilities and the world they envision. My group seems pretty laissez faire about such things. For instance, at the moment, I am playing a...

I guess you are not a fan of the cleric class, seeing as how there were certainly priests, and we have records, and we know what they could do, and they weren't magic. Also, historically there were people who were wizards, sorcerers, and the like, but they couldn't actually do magic. If we want...

Why isn't it fine to have a story in which malaria can be shouted away? I might read that story. It sounds intriguing. Trees are real. No treents? Lizards are real and never talk. No talking lizards? I've never found a fantasy world in the back of my closet. No Narnia? Besides, everything has...

What? You don't think it was historically accurate that one person could mutter words and make weird gestures using some bat crap and some sulphur and then throw a massive ball of fire 150 feet with his bare hands, incinerating people? Surely that actually happened, which is why the bard must be...

Yes, Théoden does in the Two Towers movie, right before the Battle of Helm's Deep. Eowyn does sing a lament in the movie in Old English though, just not the one I excerpted above. Her song was influenced by Beowulf, another example of poetic verse Anglo-Saxon bards would have recited to inspire...

Just for fun, here is a short excerpt from "The Wander," which is in an example of Anglo-Saxon poetic verse and which the historical "bards" would have recited in halls full of warriors to promote courage. The poem laments the loss of brave warriors, both for the speaker as a last wandering...

Hear, hear! [makes incomprehensibly British sounds of rumbling approval]

Fortunately, this is less true in 5e. Caps on ability scores allow characters with suboptimal primary stats to catch up. I could see a cleric or a wizard making their dex higher both to help them be an archer in the first levels while they develop as magic users and for the armor class bonus.

But then you would give up all the goodies that come with taking a specialty! I think that wizards are rather generalist anyway. Unless the DM makes wizards only pick spells within their specialty, there is nothing stopping a specialist in one school from picking spells in another school. That...

If you use your expanded table, I suggest you allow 31 points instead. That way you can create arrays on par with the average rolled stats for 4d6, drop the lowest. As explained elsewhere, the average stats for 4d6, drop the lowest, are about 16, 14, 13, 12, 10, 9...

2d8+2! Oh geeze, those newbs are toast.

"Crit happens." :)

And a chance for higher..... But yes, you do miss the excitement of thinking you're about to get flattened and then the DM rolls a 1.

For newbs, consider using the average damage roll amount instead of actually rolling damage for monsters. I can't be sure, but if I remember right, they are putting the average damage roll in the monster stat blocks now, and the average damage is a 5 for the first encounter. That way the party...

Some interesting ideas here!

I think that since the playtest they added something new. I think everyone gets 1 bonus action now, but that action can only be used by special spells or skills that say you can.

I thought the game dragged a bit when the fighters started chaining short rests together so they could repeatedly use second wind and not rely on the nearby cleric twiddling her thumbs.

I disagree with your prediction of 5E tanking, but I do agree that it will probably be a long time until 6e comes out. There was a lot of negative feedback when 5e was announced so soon after 4e released. I think they will try to avoid that. Plus, rumors have it that Hasbro criticized wotc for...

They haven't even finished writing the DMG.

Missed it! You're all right by me, Cybit.