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I like a lot of 2024 MM material and use it. I also still like a lot of 2014 MM material and still use that too. I also like a lot of material from MCDM's Flee Mortals and use that when it works for what I want. I also occasionally pull out an A5E statblock from their SRD and use that too...

I find it ironic that people still complain about WotC and their treatment of the OGL... a system meant to allow anyone and everyone to create the types of D&D material anyone could possibly want... but then still get upset that WOTC THEMSELVES isn't making the material they want. For Pete's...

Right. 'Flee'. That's all the magic is telling the person to do. But that's not automatonic. They just have to flee, whatever that means to the person fleeing. If a person can flee in any number of ways when just scared, then they can flee in any number of ways when the spell is making them...

Are DMs really so lazy that they can't just make up their own rule at their own table for forcing Warlock players to play to their pact, and instead demands the book gives them rules for it that they can just use with no effort or thought whatsoever? I mean I already know the answer to that...

That's not the spell killing the person... that's other people doing things after the magic has been cast. You need the right combination of attacking character, no other enemies in the way to stop the advance, and low-enough hit point level of the sleeping creature to possibly assure an...

And that's fine, as far as I'm concerned. When I have characters flee... I let the player tell me where their character runs off to. They have the description of the area... they know the narrative conceit of what "fleeing" is, so they know how their character is behaving in that situation...

The rules only matter if you treat D&D like a board game and not as a narrative being created. Some of you treat it like the former (which is your right)... but you shouldn't then be surprised if the results of the board game aren't as interesting than if you treated it as the latter. For me...

All three are the same. None of them HAVE to do anything to get their abilities if you, the DM, do not ask of them to do anything as part of the roleplaying in-world. You say the Paladin and the Cleric have to select an Oath and a Deity. Great. That's the same as the Warlock selecting a...

A person could probably write a book on DMs Guild that was nothing but 12 different "Ranger" class write-ups in all different manners and formats and a bunch of players would still think the "proper" Ranger didn't exist. 😆

Seems like we have the same story we have had for the last 12 years... Some people do not like the Ranger for their mechanics and spell usage. Some people don't like the Ranger's required usage of Hunter's Mark. And some people do not like the Ranger because their fluff and their "story" is...

If WotC eventually makes a 6E that they do not print on paper and only releases it on DDB... some enterprising company will just take the SRD made for 6E (which will be necessary by WotC to make in order to get all the 3PPs to make material they can sell on the platform) and print the document...

I suspect that they all knew that with all the skills, backgrounds, knacks etc. from all the supplements that were not balanced against each other in any way, shape, or form... that it would be just easier to come up with an entirely new system, rather than try and jam ALL the 1E rules into...

At at the very beginning of the lifecycle of 4E... many classes were indeed different in the powers they had access to and how they used them. I remember my first 4E campaign, which used all 8 original classes, felt really good and the characters all felt different (granting that with my manner...

If the rulebook is more than 3 paragraphs, then there are going to be additional rules above and beyond "ask the players what they want to do, tell them what happens when they respond, roll a die if there's a question"... of which I may or may not have read, let alone used. :) Sure... if you...

Never. No point. I know how to run the basic tenet of every RPG (ask the players what they want to do, tell them what happens when they respond, roll a die if there's a question), so all the other junk in the rules are just there to make the dice rolling different for each game. But I don't care...

Presumably it's because that's what the design team as a whole decided was the best option at the time, despite what any individual designer may have preferred. That's compromise. That's what groups have to do. If someone doesn't wish to compromise, they need to design on their own and not...

Good additions that you like. But there are things in 5E that you probably like that didn't come from 4E. And there are probably things you didn't like in 4E that are representative in 5E. There's no rhyme nor reason to what things that were adapted in some form from 4E to 5E that some of...

Yup. Unless (like you said) the DM is fine with creating their own encounters that run alongside the adventure and is good at "re-introducing" plot hooks in those side encounters that get the players to choose to return to the story arcs the adventure has. Even if it's like several levels down...

No. You are absolutely correct. The phrase is "ExekielRaiden's playstyle doesn't matter, so WotC isn't going to include it among the ones it caters to." Because they can't. It is numerically IMPOSSIBLE. They cannot cater to YOU. To you, specifically. What YOU need is idiosyncratic. What...

Because I do not believe you. Your definition of "balance" is not my definition. And it is not the definition of tens of thousands of other players out there. From everything I've seen of your posts here over the years... you think 4E is the best D&D game-- part of which is presumably because...