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One already filled by the dragonborn (and, to a lesser extent, dwarves). Not that overstuffing a niche has ever held WotC back.

That can be a chicken-egg situation, IME. As soon as a player wants to be a goliath, then the lore will be written and integrated, but until then there's a lot less motivation to do that. Most dms make a point of including humans, elves, dwarves, whatever's popular at the table, and whatever...

I've noticed that people who don't play in FR (such as myself) get annoyed when others assume that FR lore is official universal DnD lore and there applicable to all games. On the other hand, there's basically no lore for 2024-style goliaths, so you're not wrong to bring it up. (the 3.5 lore...

I was in a game with a similar rule. Then everyone bought scrolls if fund greater steed. Obviously you can just not let players get whatever scrolls they want, but you will need to watch out for exploits like that.

I’ve played several tier-4 games. We don’t really up the rate of magic item gain, since you probably already have a signature weapon/staff/whatever and alm your attunement slots filled. We’re more likely to upgrade an existing item to legendary power levels.

The only subclass I can think of that "doesn't work" is underpowered under the new rules: the Hexblade warlock, since the signature feature is now folded into Pact of the Blade. (Although that one's still an interesting pick because it gives proficiency with both medium armor and shields...

In my experience, there are three main reasons people multiclass: 1. career change 2. dip 3. hybrid A career change is when during the character's journey they find they want to follow a different path than the one they started with. When based mostly on rp this usually means a major shift in...

2014 rules: Prepare spells as though each class was entirely separate. As a 9th level arcane trickster, you know 3 cantrips and 6 leveled spells, which must be 1st or 2nd level, and 4 of those must be enchantment or illusion spells. The other two can be any school. Note that you can't change...

If I recall correctly, they made them for pretty much every race. Geasi are just the ones I had handy and met the "can be expanded to other races" aspect of OP's question better than the dragonborn ones, at least of the ones I could recall offhand. Most of the other racial ones in the FRPG...

I'd say around one permanent magic item per player every three to four levels, with almost all games fitting into the 2-5 range. Consumables tend to be more like "you have about five" after level 5 or so, with more only showing up if people actually use the ones they have. I think using them...

4e Genasi had several Paragon Paths for different kinds of elemental magic - and though written for genasi in particular, the could be adapted fairly easily to any elemental-themed character. From the 4e FR Players' Guide: Elemental Tempest (for multi-element genasi), Whirlwind Genasi, and...

I voted 5e because in most games it's got the 'best' alignment system by being the easiest to ignore. But one can run an interesting campaign where alignment plays a key, core part of the game/story, and in that case I'd want one that's both relatively clear and not 100% tied to behavior -...

I don’t think most impulses to limit cantrips are really about balance. It’s just that some people don’t like it when magic is casual, but they acknowledge that removing cantrips entirely would be a balance issue. So they’re looking for a way to make even mage hand feel like a big-ish deal...

With multiclassing: celestial dragon warrior build: This is based around the fact that Greenflame blade would trigger both a dragon sorcerer's Elemental Affinity and a Celestial Warlock's Radiant Soul feature - which, if combined with a 2024 pact of the blade would result in a 12th-level...

Shadow Blade warlock: (2014 version) Dex-based build, that's your main ability score. Learn shadow blade at level 3; this is now your main attack and where most of your spell slots will go. It can't be you pact blade so you can't take Thirsting blade for extra attack; you'll be using it with...