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Plenty of room for a Charisma fighter build. I'd like to see more subclasses that put that second-best ability score to good use. Elementalist sorcerer with a high Constitution, tactician fighter with high Charisma, thug rogue with high Strength, that sort of thing. Mostly for the classes...

So this Dragon Delves touches upon the possibility of running a game with one player plus one DM. Riddle me this: assuming they get juiced up a little by the Blessing of the Lone Champion, what sort of character would be best / most fun? Off the top of my head . . . A lone ranger, so to...

I got your bone domain right here!

[LOWER DECK AND WWDITS SPOILERS] This concept isn't really about the PCs going from the Little Guys to the Big Guys . . . this is about surviving long enough to become a Lower Medium Sized Guy. It's like Lower Decks, where Boimler's arc is from being an Ensign who wants to be a Captain, to a...

The real hook, I think, is that this is a campaign where the PCs need to rely on their wits rather than their power. That Deception check might do more to keep you alive than a fireball.

Maybe do a high fantasy riff on Rick and Morty and Star Trek: Lower Decks. In a world dominated by megalomaniacal archwizards ruling flying cities, the heroes are lowly but ambitious but probably doomed apprentices, running errands and trying to stay alive. The party's patron is not...

I've been letting this ferment in my brain a little bit. It is interesting to make the whole bunch of them chaotic evil by default, both the beautiful ones and the ugly ones. However, I think I prefer one group that is sort of the 4th ed. Mad Lords of the Feydark, and then another group with...

Always liked the look of those guys. I'm doing a one-shot this weekend where the big bad is a Feydark fomorian (I'm the only guy who really dug the 4th edition Feydark), and something in my head just clicked that the fomorians are just a fallen tribe of eldritch giants. And now I came up...

I've been interested in the talk of revisiting the Moonshaes and doing some kind of a Celtic / fairytale thing there. This bard scratches a particular itch --- the bard with a strong element of druid.

As to Purple Dragons and retcons . . . look, crap gets retconned all the time. There are suddenly ten kinds of goliath and they can get big, Not All Orcs, etc. Don't like it, don't use it.

Light armor paladin makes sense. Can't be running around doing Sinbad / Ali Baba stuff in full plate.

I really want a good modern system based on the 5E engine, and I really liked d20 Modern back in the day, and Everyday Heroes just didn't hit the spot at all for me. Too many weird character powers built into the classes, and I think the Iconics look ridiculous. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Good thoughts.

Something like Jack of All Trades or Second Wind would work, too.

I always like the idea of PCs who don't fit into the regular PC classes . . . especially the various thinky and talky professions (sages and courtiers and whatnot). What I'm looking at is a variant Rogue, with a scoop of the Expert sidekick class. So starting with Rogue . . . Hit Dice Die...