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I like that last method, if it's going to be rolls.

Standard array, unless the players unanimously prefer otherwise. Then it's 4d6 drop 1. Rolling, but having the option to use standard array AFTER you roll is going to inflate the average, as OP points out. My big beef with rolling is that stat bonuses are particularly significant in 5e...

I like this cover better by a LOT.

75 feats is already too many, IMO. At least half of them are rarely taken as is. Rules bloat for the sake of a few more niche options is not good, IMO.

Colour of Magic is one of my least favourite. I recommend checking out the Sam Vines arc, starting with Guards! Guards! I believe.

I have the Falling Star - I got the unpainted version as an X-Mas present a few years back and painted it up. It's a fantastic piece of terrain, even if I kinda wish I had known to wait and get the Reaper one instead. I recommend it - it's easily worth the price because you can use it in a ton...

He put them in as an optional rule. They were widely criticized and seldom used. They are far from integral to D&D; most adventures and settings completely ignore them. Comparing them to magic is absurd. Not to mention that even if you were to use the optional rule in 1e, there was a...

The only time I've ever used them is as a player in other people's campaigns. When in Rome. This was one of many aspects of 4e that did not work for me. Too much. Because more than zero. I didn't use them as a DM, and avoided those monsters or ignored their psionic abilities. I can't recall...

Didn't we get some statistics on this? I recall being surprised that players over 50 were a much smaller piece of the pie than I expected. As a player over 50. We are, of course, the best piece of the pie...though I may be biased. Our overall role in 5e's success is pretty hard to quantify...

That's true. I've never seen a film, read a book or comic, or played a game that had non-supernatural characters fighting dragons. I mean, except most of them.

Yeah, I feel the same way. Variety is the spice of life. Anyway, the dragons in my campaign look like whatever miniature I am currently jonesing to use. So if that makes the villain a gold dragon, that's just how it is. On an aesthetic level, I prefer my dragons to look reptilian. The one from...

I already think 5e is a bit too crunchy. So while I love the ideas in A5e, the trade off and lack of DDB make it not an option (though I’d love to see some of the settings on DDB). To be honest, ToV seems like it’s mostly there as a manifesto.

That’s a good point. WtC expanding their support for Foundry even while working on their own 3D tabletop was surprising.

I’m as huge a Greyhawk fan as they come - see my previous posts on the subject. And this is a TERRIBLE suggestion. It’s the brand new DMG, for all players, but especially new ones. You don’t immediately muddy the waters by adding in confusing qualifications about a core species from the new...

Voiced by Matt Mercer, which tracks. His Vecna on Critical Role is fantastic!

It really was not popular in 1980. We all thought it was dumb. Even Gygax was on the record that he didn't agree with it and didn't use it in his own games. But I agree with your wider point that times change, and something that worked ten years ago might not work today. I very much agree that...

I get that negativity about everything WotC does is sort of your brand, but even so this seems like an odd assertion to make at the same time that WotC is putting out the ultimate deluxe edition of all Gygax's OD&D books, lovingly curated by Jon Peterson. What is that if not honouring his...

I'm happy for those who have a nostalgic love for these characters. Personally, I still hate them with the passion of a snotty teenager who was appalled to have the game he loved turned into a badly animated kiddy's show. But I will try to look past that. Maybe I'll work them into my campaign...

Don't beat yourself up. It's not like you're missing a classic. It's popcorn entertainment. I'm currently reading Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World. A close friend has been begging me to read it for awhile and I find myself in that awkward position of not wanting to talk to...

Yeah, I'm firmly in the "keep it simple" camp. If I had my way, there'd be fewer skills, fewer classes, way fewer spells, fewer subclasses, fewer playable species, fewer of just about everything. That's why I'm generally opposed to suggestions for adding the Psion, the Gish, the Warlord, etc.; I...