House Rules for the 2014 D&D Player’s Handbook – Lazy RPG Talk Show Special

Mike talks about how we can fix the 2014 D&D Players Handbook to preserve the value of the millions of copies that exist throughout the world and those in our own gaming room.

Podcast Contents

00:00 How Would You Fix the 2014 D&D Player's Handbook?

02:09 What Parts of the 2014 Player's Handbook Disrupt the Game?

04:10 House Rules in My Own Game

05:26 House Rules Take 1: Nerf Nerf Nerf

05:54 Ability Score Generation

07:31 Class and Subclass Nerfs

08:31 Ispiration

08:48 Exhaustion

09:03 Spell Changes

13:33 Feedback I got: Too Many Nerfs

14:31 A Different Approach: Let's All Make the Game Better

15:20 Where Do You get These House Rules?

16:01 A Focus on Intention

16:31 Boss Monsters are Special

19:40 Requests for a Smooth Game

19:49 Please don't Run More than One or Two Sidekick NPCs

20:23 Please don't multiclass dip for Shield

21:33 Be Mindful of Arcane Eye's Disruption

21:53 Let's Avoid the Counterspell Arms Race

22:25 Familiars are either In or Out of Combat

22:59 Goodberries Are No Substitute for Real Food

23:17 Pure Immunity Breaks a Lot of Monsters

23:38 Tiny Hut Works Poorly in Dangerous Areas

26:17 Pass Without Trace Isn't Invisibility

27:50 Give Me Feedback

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