Finally, the Obscure Elements Poll

fuindordm · May 23, 2012

This poll collects ideas from the thread "Obscure elements of D&D you would love to rescue". I thought it would be interesting to poll the general support for these ideas, since it's easier to vote on a poll than write a new post.

I may have missed a few of people's ideas. If so, I apologize for leaving them out.

I deliberately left out "Bring back Setting X" comments, because lots of rule additions are usually required to support a setting. I wanted the poll to consist of relatively small rules.

Happy voting, and feel free to post more ideas here or in the thread linked above.

Yora · May 23, 2012

Tieflings are not obscure!

Why do people put them as such in all the polls recently?

RangerWickett · May 23, 2012

I think I voted for about 70% of the options. Not necessarily in the first set of books, but definitely some time on the calendar.

fuindordm · May 23, 2012

A fair point. I tried to be all-inclusive of people's suggestions from the other thread, without judging which options are truly obscure and which are not.

Minigiant · May 23, 2012

Prostitute tables and SAN damage.

messy · May 23, 2012

there should be an option for "none of the above."

Glade Riven · May 23, 2012

While I didn't vote for everything, I do think it would be legitemate to have all of the above in a splat sooner or later in some form. One concern I have, though, is it could easily turn 5e into mostly a 'port of what came before.

That would get really old, really fast.

fuindordm · May 23, 2012

[MENTION=13488]messy[/MENTION]

You're right, that would have made an interesting contrast.

Ahnehnois · May 24, 2012

Yora said:
Tieflings are not obscure!

Ask someone who doesn't play D&D what a dwarf is. They'll tell you it's a small person. Maybe they'll go talk about fantasy dwarves that have mines in the mountains and always use axes and have scottish accents.

Ask someone who doesn't play D&D what a Tiefling is, and they'll think you just sneezed.

Yeah, they're obscure.

(Not necessarily a bad thing)

***

I probably voted for about half of them.

TarionzCousin · May 24, 2012

Minigiant said:
Prostitute tables and SAN damage.

I hazard a guess that these two things would make "disease" an included element also. B-)

Finally, the Obscure Elements Poll

Which obscure options would you really like to see appear in D&D Next?

Assassin as a unique class

Druidish bards

Wild mages

Akashic/Factotem (the super-Expert)

Binder class

Swordsage class

Incarnum classes

Name level reward

Strongholds

Duel an NPC to level up

Secret languages

Anti-magical dwarves

Illumians

Diaboli (Mystara)

Tieflings (Planescape)

A "furry" race (e.g. rakasta or sibbecai)

A "scaly" race (e.g. dragonborn or lizardfolk)

A large race (e.g. goliath or AU giant)

A tiny race (e.g. AU sprite)

Xaositects

Lynnorms

Racial levels (e.g. paragon, Arcana Unearthed)

Ability score prereqs for race/class

System shock and ress. survival

Morale and loyalty for henchmen/hirelings

Allegiances

Disease track

Insanity

Morale for monsters

Initiative modified by weapon speed and casting times

Heavy armor grants a small amount of DR

Certain weapons have bonuses vs armor types

Dueling combat subsystem (spell or melee)

Forced movement in combat

Prostitute encounter subtable

Red steel

Wand of wonder

Potion miscibility

Intelligent and Ego weapons

Cursed items that look like good magic items

Cube of Force

Reincarnation

Cambion

Thoul

Xvart

Ki-Rin

Modrons

Algoid

Jabberwock

Para- and quasi-elementals

Brutish dragons

Silly monsters

Adventurer

Legend

Legend

Adventurer

Legend

Explorer

Adventurer

Adventurer

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