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I'm with the Stew on this one. Elven Accuracy is uniquely overpowered in a way other feats aren't, because it tinkers with fundamental game mechanics in a genuinely unique way. Nothing else changes how advantage itself actually operates.

Where is this "every possible value" coming from? That isn't at all entailed by this. I am confused as to what that even means. And why would this make species the "least significant aspect"? I specifically said I like species that include clear, distinguishing features. Like dragon breath. Or...

Oh, most certainly. It is an improvement over the idea that because you're an elf, you 100% always have one specific culture and never anything else. Yes, this makes culture less unique. That is completely intentional, and as long as it is done knowingly and judiciously, it won't ruin...

100% the same for me. The frustration and constant, draining effort of dealing with all the fallout, over and over and over, of constantly disengaging myself from the story and character so I won't feel any emotions about it, of keeping the game at arm's length...it both sours the joyful...

For my part, it's just...I have seen so, so, so many instances of "but it's what my character would do!!!!" as a crap-awful excuse for crap-awful behavior from someone trying to weasel their way out of there being consequences for being a jerk to their fellow players. And It's worth noting, a...

Well, to give you a good example of a background I felt was missing from 5.0, and which hasn't been matched in 5.5e yet to the best of my knowledge, one that I picked up from ENWorld itself. "Academy Graduate"--the idea that the rich and powerful send their kids to good schools where they hobnob...

And I do not.

There will be thousands, yes. Is it useful to have thousands of them as options? Or is it useful to articulate relevant, interesting, evocative ones, and then carve out a clear space for "If none of these describe YOUR character, this is where you draft your own." It is not bad to have...

Really, really looked like we were gonna bite it, and then we finally took down the big bad and the enemy's power collapsed with her. (One of us actually did bite it, but we were able to use an in-combat revivify to fix that.) Of course, it helped an absolute crapload that we kept rolling 5 or...

For my part, this is why I have always spoken for key racial features. Dragonborn have dragon breath, faster healing, and a frenzied edge when the chips are down. Tieflings have infernal wrath (what 5e diminished to merely hellish rebuke), amped-up damage against weakened foes, and the other...

Don't own the book, so I can't say. If they've done that, then cool, that would be a (teeny tiny) improvement. Which just means WotC is offloading even more design work onto the GM. Wonderful. Just fantastic. Just the absolute best. I love it so much. Edit: As for your previous post, asking...

Forgotten Realms. I thought that was quite obvious. Given, y'know, a third or more of all the books really are about the FR and only incidentally about anywhere else. And the fact that the vast majority of adventure paths and such published by WotC are specifically set in the Forgotten Realms.

I don't. Instead, I work through things like the following, using "I" to mean "my character" for brevity: What am I feeling? (Rage? Pain? Joy? Fear? Hate? Love? Apathy? etc.) How do I make decisions? (Logical stepwise thought? "Honor before reason"? Self-interest calculation? etc.) What do I...

Okay. Folks have repeatedly said they should, or said things about how backgrounds somehow invoke culture. If they do not actually say anything about culture, then either those people are deeply mistaken, or they're presenting falsehoods, or they're in some way creating something that simply is...

So...when you said "I consider backgrounds to be the participation in various cultural institutions.", what did that mean? Because that doesn't look like participating in "cultural institutions" other than in a purely instrumental sense. Because...all people by definition have a culture. The...

You ask this as though 5e does not have a default setting...because it pretty clearly does.

I find them far, far, far too generic to serve any such capacity. "Scribe", "Merchant", "Artisan", "Criminal". What, in any way whatsoever, does this say about your culture? Every single one of the PHB backgrounds is purely generic, something essentially all civic cultures would support to some...

I fully agree. As said above: being 3PP, it may as well not even exist, as far as what is actually accessible to me as a player. It could be the most amazing piece of TTRPG content ever written, and I would never know. I'm not saying this flippantly. Even with a GM who is in favor of 3PP, which...

3PP is functionally useless to me as a player, so it doesn't really matter how amazeballs the product is, I'm 99.99999% surely never going to get to use it. And I still see that as a lame half-measure. Feats should not be competing with stats. Period. I just do not see that as being in any way...

And yet culture matters less, mechanically, than species--which hardly matters at all. Like culture literally has no impact on your character. No mechanics, no ribbons, no fluff. Nothing. If the intent actually is to make species mostly color and culture matter a ton, then 5.5e has objectively...