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try saying that to all the organizations that are 90% humans or the elven village in the forest.

wall of stone i can see the train of logic there, it sort of fits the idea of an artificer with abilities that 'build' things, though in a more magical sense where they earthbend the wall out of the ground rather than having any sort of gadget that does it, and if Maze wasn't in a demiplane and...

equal opportunity relevancy for whatever PHB species they want to pick, if i want to pick a dragonborn i don't have to grasp for scraps of local setting lore interesting or relevant to my character while the human, elf and dwarf are swimming in more options that they care to know what to do with.

i think a points of light - archipelago - parallel worlds setting would be neat, where instead of sailing between the islands you're instead traversing through the different layers of realities to find ones with landmasses that go in the direction you want, passing from a high magic lush jungle...

i think a few of the elven subspecies could probably just be pruned wholesale to let other species have more claim to the archetypes, like, i think we could trim sea elves to focus more on something like the triton as the 'aquatic humanoid', give it a couple of subspecies to work with at the...

i think they ought to bring back proper NPC classes, town guards and the like shouldn't be wet tissue paper against player characters and the most basic monsters.

spell points are a resource that needs to be tracked, however, spell slots are multiple separate versions of a resource that also needs to be tracked, which is simpler? 'you have 20 spell points which all your spells use some amount of' or 'you have three 1st level slots, you have three 2nd...

there's a difference between mechanics being tied to setting like DS and BR and what we're talking about which is a setting designed in consideration of how the mechanics and system play out and what they imply about how the world works.

perhaps the current spell point system is a bit complex, but i think if the game was designed to use them as the base it would be far simpler than slots currently are.

or the monotony of a safe village and 9-to-5 with the same people every day could be exactly the kind of thing to drive someone to drop everything, pick up a sword and chain shirt and run straight out the gates to stab some wolves. edit, or alternately: fame and fortune, you don't get...

lots of people still seemingly mistakenly interpreting the title's 'circus troupe' to mean a party made of lots of different species...

alot of the 'conversion' for 5e just seemed to be 'well, these things are here now, part of the world, didn't arrive from anywhere overly specific but now they're included' 'what, but how did they get here?' 'they're here now!'

5.5 isn't too different from 5e, but seeing as there was never a proper 5e setting made in the first place that's a bit of a moot point don't you think?

dividing up the species into 'kingdoms' i'd personally go with: humans, tiefling and aasimar. dwarves and goliaths. orcs and halflings. elves. dragonborn. gnomes.

6th: arcane gate, chain lightning, create homunculus, globe of invulnerability, magic jar, programmed illusion, soul cage. 7th: create magen, crown of stars, dream of the blue veil, forcecage, mordenkainen's magnificent mansion, mordenkainens sword, project image, regenerate, resurrection...