For those asking for a image of my home collection of mishmashed dice from over the years (still includes some from my first set, the simple green ones), here ya go. pic.twitter.com/ePJk6NuMzQ

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) May 26, 2018

Kind of? @BWalloch bought me this dice bag yeeears back. pic.twitter.com/vjIoUmf3vh

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) May 26, 2018

I don’t see a snitch it’s a lie THOSE dice stay at the studio, with my community-gifted dice I use on the show. 🙂

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) May 26, 2018

How many sides does the die with the most sides you have have? (This question makes no sense because I didn’t get much sleep) I sadly lost my d100, lovingly referred to as “The Golf Ball”

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) May 26, 2018

Quality over quantity. 😉

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) May 26, 2018

Love the dice collection! When did you pick up your first set?

1996, from the Agoura Hills comic shop “Collector’s Asylum”. Don’t think it’s there anymore, sadly…

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) May 26, 2018

So many pretties!! I’m curious who’s the true dragon hoarder of dice, Laura or Matt. Either way #dicegoals Oh, no contest, SHE’S the queen hoarder. I don’t wish mass, I just slowly acquired over the years.

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) May 26, 2018

Is this a cry for help? …you noticed.

🙂

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) May 27, 2018

I have a strong belief that the rise of so much actual play streaming of tabletop RPGs is not only good for awareness and building audiences for the games, but also for the actually quality of TTRPG design as a whole. (Thread!)

— Rodney Thompson (@AntarianRanger) June 3, 2018

So many people who didn’t have access to regular gaming would stay involved in the hobby by reading supplements and spending time mentally theorycrafting. Divorced from actual play, though, this theorycrafting lacked reality checks and grounding.

— Rodney Thompson (@AntarianRanger) June 3, 2018

Now, if you don’t have time or a group, you can stay involved by watching people actually play the games, and see what real play at tables is like. It’s like having a silent seat at the table.

— Rodney Thompson (@AntarianRanger) June 3, 2018

I think this has shifted conversations away from theoretical, platonic ideals of what happens at the game table, and focuses more on what really matters: how people actually play the games, and what enhances, or gets in the way of, fun.

— Rodney Thompson (@AntarianRanger) June 3, 2018

To put it another way: I think streaming helps us keep from getting so far up our own asses that we lose sight of the experience that a game’s design actually produces at the table.

— Rodney Thompson (@AntarianRanger) June 3, 2018

I honestly wish streaming had been a bigger deal at the time 5E was in playtesting, would have been a valuable source of data points in addition to internal playtesting and surveys.

— Rodney Thompson (@AntarianRanger) June 3, 2018

did Forgotten Realms develop starting with Undermountain, then Waterdeep, then beyond — or is my childhood memory deceiving me? The Realms began a decade before D&D as a series of short stories about Mirt the Moneylender swindling his way from port to port down the Sword Coast. When D&D play began in the Realms, it started with Waterdeep, then Undermountain, and then a second focus in Shadowdale.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 20, 2018

1)
The doors burst open with a room-shaking crash. The monks spun around, to behold grim men and women with drawn swords. The tallest, at the fore, advanced menacingly. “Where is the Gauntlet of Doom?” he demanded. “Surrender it or die!”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2018

2)
The monks all turned to regard the eldest amongst them. He struggled to his feet, leaning on a staff, and pointed at a door half-hidden in the shadows. It promptly began to glow.
The intruders stalked towards it.#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2018

3)
All save one, a woman with wild hair and wilder eyes. She reached out to clamp long, cruel fingers around the old monk’s arm. “YOU open it,” she spat. “So if a trap awaits, YOU die.”
The old man nodded sadly as she dragged him to the door.#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2018

4)
He opened it, stood aside, and waved them on.
“No,” the tallest brigand snapped. “YOU.”
Even more sadly, the old monk nodded again and shuffled through the doorway. Only to emerge again, into the tense waiting silence, holding a glowing but battered old war-gage.#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2018

5)
He was still shakily proffering it when the woman snatched it from him, drew it on, and laughed wildly as its glow intensified. Then she leveled it at the assembled monks and spat a word.
Nothing happened.#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2018

6
“It needs attunement to ye, lass,” said the old monk. “Ye must wear it for three days and three nights ere ye can trust in its powers to answer thy call.”
She glared at him, then nodded curtly, turned, and strode out of the monastery. Her fellow brigands followed.#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2018

7)
The monks all stared at the eldest in dismay.
“But, Most Holy,” a young monk quavered, “you let them take the sacred Gauntlet! Will not the God Too Awful To Name not be angered, and strike us all down?”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2018

8
The explosion that followed shook the monastery around them, bringing dust cascading down. Only when the last rolling echoes of the blast had died away did the Most Holy make reply.
“No,” he said, “for the Gauntlet is but a myth.”The young monk went white as bone.#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2018

9)
“What?” he sobbed.
“We guard but a succession of old metal gloves I enspell. To glow, and to explode when they’re removed from our holy wards. Now go you and gather pieces of brigands; the cook will be glad of some variety. Praise be to the Most Awful God.”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 9, 2018

Unpopular opinion: I wish 5e #dnd used static damage for characters as well as monsters.

— SlyFlourish (@SlyFlourish) June 18, 2018

I agree, and would add an unpopular opinion of my own – if we could remove adding Con bonus to HD and Str/Dex bonus to damage rolls, hps would deflate tremendously without changing much else in the game. Plus I think combat would move about 20% faster. https://t.co/OO0dvdPv1w

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls)

One thing that is fascinating about AD&D – Hit Dice are a supremely useful measure of power. Since Con and Str bonuses were rare, the game wasn’t built around them. You could compare a critter’s HD to a spell’s # of damage dice and get a good sense of relative power.

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) June 18, 2018

I’ll add my own unpopular opinion: I think ability mods should be ability score – 10, full stop, so you can roll ability checks vs. your opponent’s ability score as the target DC. But I think you know this…

— Rodney Thompson (@AntarianRanger) June 18, 2018

What is this, Alternity!? I think the alt version of 5e where we got everything we wanted has that stat scale and my love of skill/proficiency expressed as a die.

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) June 18, 2018

It is now.

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) June 18, 2018

More seriously, I loved it because it is so much easier to spot a mistake, especially for new players, and makes recovering from it a ton easier. Just roll the die you forgot, and you’re good.

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) June 18, 2018

can i ask a question about the storm aura effects for the storm herald barbarian in xanathar’s?💖 go for it!

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) May 25, 2018

few parts to this question.
1-if they are in my aura when i activate it per round, they get temp HP. if they move out of my aura, does the temp HP stay? or is it only good for when they are in the 10 ft radius?
2-if it stays when they move out of the aura, how long does it last? pic.twitter.com/lOaEdMI4pF

— real live ghost👻 (@ayoungghost) May 25, 2018

1. Temp hit points remain
2. Until they are depleted or you take a long rest

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) May 25, 2018

reading through ToF, I saw the thing about Elves and how they reincarnate into new elves eventually. How does it work if an elf gets reincarnated into a different being via the reincarnate spell? Do they still get reincarnated as an elf eventually? Yes

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) May 31, 2018

Hi @TheEdVerse or @ChrisPerkinsDnD, any chance of a pronunciation for Waterdhavian? Always confused as to whether it’s water-DAY-vian, water-DAH-vian, or water-da-HAY-vian (less da and more the d consonant sound).All of those are correct depending on where in Faerun you're from (i.e. your "accent" when speaking Common, which is a matter of vowels and emphasis). But to anyone native to the Sword Coast, the first pronunciation is the one that comes naturally.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 20, 2018