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I'm mostly a 5.0 guy myself, but honestly, have this conversation with your players. Ask them what the ruleset pain points were in the previous campaign, then see if those coincide with the fixes that 5.5 applied. I've stolen some of 5.5's stuff to use as houserules in my game, and that...

The Hexblade in its 5e form is the single most destructive post-core books error that WotC has made with their ruleset. It was only ever an attempt to make blade pact warlocks viable, but only succeeded in doing so for one specific very niche subclass that has some background lore that is very...

I've played a celestial warlock briefly in an abortive game, and I had fun (drow celestial warlock, Tome pact and the Drow High Magic feat for 9 cantrips known at level 4!). My genie warlock now is jealous of the quality and thematicness of its bonus spell list. The base warlock spell list...

Warlocks. The class you play when you want to do the same thing and cast the same cantrip every round.* But if you're going to be the same as every else, you might as well do it differently, right? What visuals, fluff, descriptions, etc have you come up with to describe your warlock's...

I am palping it as we speak.

Um, no? Temp hp from different sources don't stack so your hp total only benefits from whichever one of Inspiring Leader, Heroism, Aid, or the potion of Heroism gives you the most, and that's not going to help a lot. Aid only gives a tiny amount of temp hp by level 10 standards unless you...

Mounted combat (ranged or melee) in D&D is great right up until someone lobs a fireball at your 7th level party and all the 19hp horses die and then suddenly you're not a mounted party after all. Ask my 12th level paladin how often his steed lasts past the first round of combat some time. Hit...

Yes, Azure Bonds is excellent fun classic early Realms stuff. Gleefully high magic and eccentric, and I have a great deal of affection for it. The Brimstone Angels books get extremely good reviews (like 'some of the best FR books ever written' type reviews) but I can't attest to them...

Single most obvious thing? Give them blond hair and blue eyes. Or at least DON'T give them black hair and dark or coppery skin. Give them deep green foliage-coloured hair, give their skin spots or stripes like the pelts of big cats. Don't play into the old stereotypes, basically...

I think they will in the short term. There was a lot of player options that accumulated over the lifetime of 5e - WotC will want to make it as easy as possible for people playing a legacy subclass to switch over, and will not want prospective 5.5 adopters to look at the pallete of available...

I never liked Nimble Escape. It just meant that the most iconic class for a goblin - the rogue - was a massively suboptimal choice because you already got a bunch of the rogue abilities for free from your race, and there was no compensation for doubling up. I do like the increased speed, but...

I wouldn’t be reading too much into that quite yet. Legends and Lattes (which I read yesterday) itself started on a very similar note. The scene of ‘adventure-typical’ violence. It serves as a contrast to what comes later, to emphasise why the MC might see the cosy life as desirable.

I might be romanticising the past here, but I think the internet right now is probably at its worst. From the earliest days it was very bad for some small number of people, but the whole low-grade continual awfulness it grinds out that affects absolutely everyone is imho much more a product of...

Thanks, I thought i remembered something vaguely like that. But yeah, an adjustment like this is necessary for Dark Sun's exploration/survival pillar to be meaningful at all, and that just can't happen if we're using PHB rules as written. But I don't think that WotC has EVER, in the lifetime...

I'm fuzzy on Create Water, but I'm 99.9% sure that Goodberry at least DID exist in 2e. The kicker was that you had to provide fresh berries as a material component that the spell consumed, which limited its usefulness in Athas. I think it was 2nd level too. Besides, the big deal was that in...