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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