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hmm, I feel like I have heard this somewhere before....do you have a twin brother? Here's the thing, D&D is a 1 size fits all game. It has to apply to hundreds of thousands of tables which having varying levels of player experience, optimization, and RP/exploration/combat balance. They give...

I honestly wouldn't be too concerned with allowing the swapping or adding of spells known. I am generally very liberal with letting my wizards find spell books on enemy casters or find arcane resources in town to copy spells into their books and I don't feel like it has ever caused any issues...

If you are 600ft away and fly up, and the monster jumps in a trench, it's going to take you a few rounds more than likely to get to an angle to hit them assuming they stay in the same place. If the monster is the size of an elf and dives under a wagon or cart the size of a Volkswagen, you...

Sharpshooter doesn't get around full cover and magically allow your PCs to see through objects. Gaining full cover is not difficult unless you are a huge creature. And it's not metagaming to have my monsters do things that are basic common sense and survival instinct. I wouldn't expect the PCs...

So first, I think that is a great homebrew solution. I myself have absolutely no issue with GWM but feel SS gives too much for a single feat. I have never had enough of an issue with sharpshooter to bother changing it but I have always felt it would have been better split into 2 separate...

There are many tables and many playstyles and it's not about one way being better, to each his own. And I am not saying the feats cannot be OP at some tables or that those tables are wrong for it, but I see no reason why the PHB needs amended to any one table. Isn't this what house rules are...

I don't really have much issue with them being overpowered at my table as I design my encounters keeping it in mind. My only issue with those two feats is their comparison to the rest of the feats as they are so clearly better than the rest by a decent margin.

I have to be honest, after digging into the numbers, laying it out, and spending some time thinking about it, I am actually starting to like the idea, as a player and DM. More work would need to be done to a few of the other classes that are long rest dependent to get all classes on the same...

Yes, I would rework the slot layout for both full and half casters. I would also tweak your reset mechanic a bit and make it reset slots of prof bonus -1 for full casters and prof bonus -2 for half casters. It would likely take some playtesting and tweaking to find the sweet spot, but I'll...

***Disclaimer: That change is a terrible idea and I would never even think about implementing it, but I’ll play along just cause I am bored. So first let’s just start by saying, even if I were to consider making this change(which I wouldn’t), at the bare minimum I would change your proposed...

I just don't feel like special carrots to make my players want to push on and not rest is needed, my game already has the best carrot, not dying. What do I mean by that? Well, the world isn't static. If the PCs are in a dungeon and try to long rest after every fight, I am not going to stop...

My players also like to have high stats, to do massive amounts of damage, and win too.....so I guess that should be the baseline and I should give them all 30 for their ability scores, make all weapons do 10d12 magic damage, and at the start of the encounter just have them roll and attack and...

When copper oxidizes it turns green.....coincidence? I think not! :P

Fair enough. I find it perfectly acceptable for a 9th level party to kill a Balor....if they can. But I will look at my story and decide whether I want them to or not as appropriate to the story. So though I feel that it is acceptable, it would never happen at my table.

Ugh, this again. The game is written to work "out of the box" for the lowest common denominator and they gave us the tools to tweak monsters and design encounters that work for the table each of us is at. No 2 tables are the same. What is difficult for 1 group is not what is difficult for...

This is just my 2cp but as many have said, it's fine as long as you consider it when designing your encounters. Consider what items they have and what effect they have. If the group all has magic weapons it negates the resistances that a large portion of the monsters have and increases hit...

Really? First, you said "room" so let's clarify, The the scenario in question isn't a room so much as a vast open area. "White room" as in featureless area, not a 30x30 "room". The complaint stems from monsters at range being destroyed by ranged characters. What game can you drop a level...

Have you considered that 5e, and more specifically DMing may not be the right fit for you? There is no rewriting of the rules that is going to make plopping down a brainless sack of hit points in the middle of a vast white room challenging. If fact, i can't think of any RPG out there that...

So aside from the fact that it is utterly stupid to toss a single Marilith at a party of powerful heroes and expect it to survive without altering it, the MM says this..."These demons possess keen minds and a finely honed sense of tactics, and they are able to lead and unite other demons in...

So the question is(for the 100th time), why are you, the DM, allowing this tactic to work? Why is your monster so retarded that he is going to endlessly chase around someone that he obviously cannot catch until he is dead? I mean, this should work every once in a while on a especially low...