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Wizards updated the Basic DM Rules Supplement to version .2, http://media.wizards.com/2014/downloads/dnd/DMBasicRulesv.0.2_PrinterFriendly.pdf and it includes what appears to be a completely re-written Encounter generation section. They vastly de-emphasized their section on Challenge Rating, reducin...

Wait, no hiding rules? There are no rules on stealth in 5e? You're supposed to "ask your DM" whether you can hide or not. The guidelines for when you could or could not do that were supposed to be in the DMG. If they aren't, then there's no stealth rules at all in this fucking game. -User...

Well apparently you fight 3rd-years appropriate Trolls (a la Ron and Hermione in the bathroom in whatever early book it was) that are roughly equivalently dangerous to rats and angry dogs.

DMG Table of Contents preview.

I don't hate this. LOL that "RULES MODLUES!" gets relegated to 22 pages in the back of the book.

Edit: LOL FUCK YOUR TABLES. (added spoiler tags)[/spoiler]

Sidebar: Are there any shadowrun stories/novels featuring a mystic adept as the main/POV character?

In addition to defined Tiers and class progressions that stop being mundane around level 5 or so, I'd like to see two changes to the 3.x model: "Wizard" as a class GOES AWAY. You're a Necromancer, an Evoker, a Diviner, whatever. This whole "choose what your class does anew each day&qu...

A lot of the issue with rolling to confirm the critical in 3.x wasn't that it was too much rolling, but that it was often disappointing when you failed to confirm. Throwing out rolling to confirm is akin to my desire to max damage or something with criticals in 5e. To get a crit and then roll shit d...

I like crits being auto hit, but I hate for the dice to then fuck the character. Maybe I should do Crit == max damage, nat 20 == auto hit + crit? It just blows to roll 1s and 2s for damage. Also, while everyone here seems confident that AC will start around 18 and go up from there, most of the play ...

At least it isn't an Arcanist archetype.

On the one hand, they nerf weapon cords to nerf gunslingers.

Then, they add Crazy SciFi Kingdom and give people hand held death rays and shit.

http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/tech ... apons.html

What the fuck, Pathfinder, I don't even.

Rothfuss is pretty clearly joking about the 8-9 times per day comment. He also only got sneak attack on one of the attacks in the brace of thrown daggers - his damage was something like 27 and 7. (Also, I checked Rothfuss' character sheet, he's playing a Rogue with the perform skill; not a Bard.) Th...

So I'm watching the Chris Perkins/Penny Arcade Acquisitions Inc D&D 5e game from PAX Prime. Early in the game, after the Fighter watches the Bard/Rogue chuck a brace of daggers at multiple targets and get Sneak Attack off on both with it's resultant pile of damage, he exclaims: "What did yo...

I expect Gestalt will be "figure it up just like regular multiclassing, but only count as one level and take the best hit die!" So Wizard|Fighter would be different from Fighter|Wizard. And Gestalt will totally own bones if compared to single classed characters. But it's not like Multiclas...

Actually the same guy posted some excerpts. The monsters-as-PC's stuff is 100% handwavey. Lemme image leach real quick.... http://i.imgur.com/VfEB4Vz.png http://i.imgur.com/QHBWAAR.png So, that's awesome. Bonus content: http://i.imgur.com/IDXWB9m.png http://i.imgur.com/ouzuO7G.png Based on those exc...

Guy on Something Awful had this summary of topics from the Alpha DMG: secret DMG is from 07/30, this turd is so fresh the flies haven't showed up yet. no magic items sadly. highlights: costs to construct building costs for hirelings downtime activites (most of which have a 20% chance of going to jai...

Also half-elf master race. Or gnomes for wizards (+2 int and advantage on all mental saves vs spells? Really?). Or if you want an actual option for character building at level 1, skill/feat humans. Sharpshooting and archer fighting style is pretty damn solid, as you're at -3 to hit for +10 damage, ...

I also posted a note about it here the day it popped up on /tg/

In this thread, even, I think

Well of course I'm leaving off the fact that Bob over there is actually doing the Polymorphing, _I'm_ standing here with Planar Binding readied.

"Immortal celestial being of power ENSLAVED TO ME" just doesn't have quite the same je ne sais quoi.

"Follow me, and become an immortal celestial being of power" has a certain ring to it.

It's an official 3rd party product - Wizards is writing the story bibles for the adventure arcs, but the Adventurer's Guides and actual modules are being authored by external parties. Kobold wrote Tyranny of Dragons, Sasquatch Studios is writing Elemental Evil (which apparently is going to be Son of...

Animate Dead 3rd-levelnecromancy Casting Time: 1 minute Range: 10 feet Components: V, S, M (a drop of blood, a piece of flesh, and a pinch of bone dust) Duration: Instantaneous This spell creates an undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your s...

I bet the errata is something like 'swift quiver lets you use cantrips' for maximum FUCK OFF value. Actually, if you want maximum facepalm, take note that a high level valor bard can take an attack in addition to casting any of the ranger projectile AoE spells, and the ranger can't. Shame those app...

Human (feat variant) barbarian polearmist. Use your human feat for Polearm Master so you grab your rage dice boost 2x per round every round with the bonus attack. Bump STR/CON, maybe WIS if you want to be perceptionguy (and you do). Go Totem Warrior, Bear Totem at 3 for Resistance vs. All Damage unl...

I bet the errata is something like 'swift quiver lets you use cantrips' for maximum FUCK OFF value.

You can do some shenanigans with planar binding as well, thought that requires two casters. But if you have them, you basically have infinite elementals bound to you for a infinite amount of time. Esplain? (side note: I remember in basic and 1e running around with a cadre of fighting dogs or mercen...