Recent content by UngainlyTitan

The toilet humour in Vox was fanservice. The live stream had a lot of it.

fair enough but he wants to reduce the workload and really many people and possibly including the OP, get way too worked out about small stuff.

While I agree, I do not believe one can fine tune 5e the way one could in 4e and I also believe that outside boss fights it is not worth the effort. I also do not believe that every fight has to be a cracker edge of the seat affair. Some there to show that the PCs are awesome, we are not making...

I roll behind the screen and since 5e I do not fudge at least not dice or hip points but I have never tracked players AC, hit points or anything else (except with VTT because they do it) but I will be damned if I change my die rolling because of what the internet says. That said 3.5 was my bug...

I remember discussing this with you before and I seem to remember that you have a liking for 4e style cinematic combat and I do not believe that 5e can do that. I wonder if you have much time on the player side of 5e? Combats in 5e look worse from the player perspective than from the DMs...

Stop working so hard. The stories that you will remember for years emerge but cannot be forced.

I am going to respond to this because I want to give my response with out being influenced by other comments. Now, before I get into the questions posed in your post I want to make some general observations based on this and other post and threads you have made on this site over the last couple...

I am beginning to think that Wizards, should make more use of D&DBeyond tie ins with these adventures. additional lore, DM advice and a few extra Adeventures to cover the gaps. I have not gone through the locations with a fine look but on my first read through it need more Vecna. Some...

Of one could input the above formula into a spreadsheet and replace N with a cell reference, use that to generate the averages for all the dice. Then use the base average damage for each dice to generate tables or divide the target number by the expected damage for a die or subtract the bonus...

To be honest as a DM that runs a game for fairly casual players, I do not have an issue with it. At least not the basic idea. I do have some issues with the DM advice which I think is a little clumsy. I just think that the dude would have been better prepared than presented and have on hand some...

The modern interpretation of the game is the rules in the PHB, the Greyhawk chapter in the DMG is to teach a new DM to create a world using Greyhawk as an example. While it is possible that WoTC may fail in this, I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt until I see the actual result. I...

Well, reasonable minds can differ, but I do not believe it is an issue for designers or publishers to resolve. I mean DMs curate their games all the time. There are DMs that do not allow splat books, or Silvery Barbs or multiclassing. Does this mean that Wizards should not include multiclassing...

Then it is the DMs job to make that clear from the get go. I do not believe it is the function of the rules or the publisher/designer to try and enforce playstyles. Other than, perhaps to note that such playstyles exist. As you say it is not important to me but if I was playing at your table, I...

Why is this a problem of the rules, if they are willing (and the DM and the rest of the table goes along with it) to make a character with no ties to the setting, what is different from a dragonborn or a human? Tying the dragonborn to the setting is as simple as saying that the character is...

Thing is, you really do not need classes there are game without them but if you do then classes cover basic archetypes. At a minimum one needs 3: the fighter, the magic user, the skilled one. One could base the whole game around this with all other archetypes as subclasses. On the other hand...