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This is actually super helpful! Thank you!

I think you're on the right track here, but I think you've misdiagnosed the problem. The problem boils down to "the rogue was built to shine in the 'exploration' pillar of the game" but because over time many tables (and to be fair, adventure modules) have focused exclusively on combat, rogue...

Having spent about a decade on the Service Desk (thankfully I've moved beyond that now) myself, I suspect I just might have an idea of how often you get that. ;)

In a recent Matt Colville livestream, he mused a little bit about the Gish, to wit, he noted he feels to some degree, the Gish arises out of the following: 1. In a class-based RPG, you are usually asked to pick one thing you are an expert at (your class). For instance, you can be great at...

I was going to throw in another plug for "don't lie to your doctor or your attorney" but then I realized, it should be broader than that... When you are paying someone for access to their subject matter expertise, you should not lie to them about anything material to the matter you are paying...

Well, if you collapse "Intelligence and Wisdom" to "Intelligence" (as DC20 does), it doesn't make sense to connect magic power to Intelligence; I have always felt splitting intelligence (book smarts) and wisdom (street smarts) felt better anyway as I know a lot of very wise folks that aren't...

I've seen this across several of my youtube feeds recently. I have not yet taken a look, but here were my gut reactions to some of the things mentioned. I've never felt Hit Point bloat was an issue for low-level characters in any edition of D&D. I think the original AD&D and B/X rules, where...

Come to think of it, I'm now wondering if the thread sub-title is factually incorrect ("A WizKids miniature reveals the iconic character's face for the first time"). Someone mentioned it upthread, but didn't Super7 already release a mini that depicts the iconic character's face? So wouldn't...

I'm sure there will be some that want to jump on this take, but in the spirit of "you are entitled to your own opinions, but you aren't entitled to your own facts" I will just throw the following out there: 1. The original artist (Elmore) stated that the fighter depicted in the piece was male...

I skimmed through the thread and didn't catch who said it, so sorry for not giving credit, but the most salient point I've seen so far in this thread was something to the effect of, "people love the game D&D. What they hate is the company selling it." It's worth pointing out that most of us...

My recommendation is usually to prepare maps at different scales (or if you have software that allows you to zoom to the scale you want, so much the better). I typically find 8 miles to the hex is a nice scale for plotting kingdoms, while something like 2 miles per hex (where movement is about 1...

I have always assumed that the idea was less something super-granular like "track minutes of daylight on a given day, multiply speed per round by rounds per minute by minutes of daylight" to see exactly how many feet you have travelled ... and more the idea of "this should be a close enough...

I would tend to agree that B11 is not the most exciting or original adventure ever written.. but it has DM-helper inserts that are not adventure-specific (the best example being the "adventure clock") that I have found are helpful to anyone trying to get a good handle on running BECMI.

This was precisely the sort of thing I was looking for. Thank you!

I've used Fantasy Grounds, Foundry, and Owlbear Rodeo; of the three I found Owlbear Rodeo to be the most intuitive, but it's not really what I'm looking for. Specifically, I'm not looking for something that rolls all the dice for me and knows all the rules. What I really need is a VTT where I...

If I could find an intuitive VTT I might consider it, but having tried several VTTs I have yet to find one I find intuitive. And I work on computers for a living and host an MMORPG I coded from scratch (my interface isn’t intuitive either - intuitive interfaces are HARD).

Do you have a source to cite here? Not being snarky, I tried to find something more current than 2017 but my google fu failed. I am genuinely curious.

I would just assume that Dwarves have fallen in popularity while gnomes, tieflings, and goliaths have surged in popularity since 2017 and Is Your D&D Character Rare? and WotC is focusing its resources on the current most popular races. No, Scanlan, Jester, and Grog, I have no idea at all what...

Couldn't find it up-thread, but you pointed out that it's easier to start DM'ing at 10 (when you're still being encouraged to "imagine" a lot) than when you're 30-ish. Totally agree with you there. Also, that's an interesting spread of paid players. If I was trying to come up with an...

I don't think DM'ing is hard. I do think DM'ing WELL is hard. I also don't think we DM'd well at 10 years old. Of course, our 10-year old peers didn't have a high bar of expectations for us to meet, either. To say nothing of the fact that if I recall correctly the average "new game" skews...