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In the older days of dnd, casters were kinda artillery units, they were powerful but slow, vulnerable, and cumbersome, how they enforced this was with the rules for a spellcaster, making it so you had to declare spellcasting at the beginning of the round and it was cast when your turn would come...

https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/50077/roleplaying-games/review-the-shattered-obelisk 'He really laid into this thing, thought it was interesting, some particular highlights. Whats your thoughts on it? i was suprised wotc dropped the ball this hard apparently.

So i saw a post by Michael Sayre(A PF2e designer) on Twitter, that talks about the issues with Casters in DnD, This got me thinking about this point to where I reached an interesting point... The core issue with the Martial Caster gap is just, the design of casters in dnd-like games, they...

This is inspired by a thread of tweets by Matt Colville Basically he believes DnD 5e is basically being mothballed, or sidelined as just a legacy thing they do. They dont really invest money into the TTRPG much, its mainly just a side thing to promote the brand similar to the current state of...

Weapon Actions Variant Here you all go, there have been some changes to make it better fit the TTRPG, such as making it PB per short rest in a unified pool, instead of tying the cooldown to each action itself, using some existing conditions instead of making up new ones, and simplifying the DC...

This was prompted by me viewing this clip here. Where players were struggling to figure out how to learn about the world and infomation in a setting, or to gather information on how to investigate a scenario. Andi realized what was missing from 5e/One Dnd, is the old Gather information skill...

This is something i have been thinking about a lot, and kinda is a serious thought i had, that some would see as crazy! but hear me out, as i feel it contextualizes their weirdness about the monk. I think there is a chance that they view the monk is a little overtuned, mainly because...well...

Ive currently been looking into kinda how they loosely balance the budget of power of classes and after some minor resources and referencing some things in the DMG, and words of Crawford like them assuming characters are at full power for encounters. And somethings they have said about the...

So a long while ago i noticed something that was said by Jeremy crawford about monster design which is the fact they convert for matters of balance, things to virtual damage, via rating certain conditions equal to the power of certain spells levels of the condition appear. You can see him say...

Originally as shown Glory of the Giants was supposed to come out in spring, Book of many things/Phandelver in Summer, and Planescape in fall. The recent revealed release dates for these books have all completely left this timeframe. Glory of the Giants is now coming out in August 15, mid...

Accounting for magic items in fifth edition is always been a bit confusing to most people and players, people always assume, fifth editions balance requires no magic items, or anything, and that magic items, are simply separate from the core math of the game. Recently due to some words said by...

What is a piece of DM advice you see commonly spread around the DnD/TTRPG community that you simply think sucks and is bad?

I remember a while back i made a post about how the adventuring day is based on hit dice, as resources and nothing else, and after thinking about it more and looking into a few matters on this. Jeremy Crawford asserts that the adventuring day is a maximum but not a minimum here. So why is the...

Notice all of the characters on the artwork are from the original books.

Ive been experimenting with a house rule for my 5e game where i give martials a free feat that doesnt increase ASIs at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th level(17th level has an option to trade out the feat for an Epic Boon). And i have been shocked at how much it helps the design of the game and gives...

I was building a dungeon, and i kinda just realized it while making it, the "Adventuring Day" Budget, is just a budget for filling out your dungeon basically, you just pick monsters to fill out that budget, make a dungeon, add some traps/hazard, place treasure, and then add some details. Thats...

A lot of people want a lot of things, but i just wanted to make a thread summarizing what is the top 3 things, people actually want from this game come 2024, like above all else, what is ideally what you want from the game.

Was thinking about running 4E for some friends, been awhile since i played it, they were curious, im curious to see how they feel about it Whats the best way to get into it. Buying the Essential's books and running it using that, or buying the Original 3 big books. Also should i not use the...

5e's encounter building in infamously messy, with some fights being marked as "even" being remarkably easier, and some fights listed as "Hard" not feeling like it, this make it hard to challenge players, and makes 5e's encounter design feel messy. (Its why you should play Level Up! 5e because...

So i decided to give a minor look over the subclass compatibility, and made a general list of observations i've found. This game is marketed with the idea that any options are mostly compatible with O5E, and i find this is mostly true, infact this game is likely more compatible with O5E options...