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Well, I generally agree-- very broadly-- that any character concept that is supposed to be supported by the rules should be viable under...

Part of the problem is the decreased acceptance of the idea that some species are simply flat-out better at, or better suited for, some...

...i make suboptimal choices all the time because algorithmic gameplay is boring as heck, but it's always driven by playing my...

That's very much how I see it. Or the government is largely made up of retired high-level adventurers who have kept their skills...

Why not? In a might-makes-right society, which many D&D settings strongly tend toward, being or becoming the biggest baddest band o'...

Change "Intelligence" to "Wisdom" in the quoted post and you've nailed my playstyle bang on. :)

Tradition and nostalgia would lead to both - you'd have bad saves at low level progressing to good saves at high level.

That's not luck, that's actual good design: you get the bits right that most of the people are going to use most of the time, then let...

Easy enough to tweak any spell that targets either Intelligence or Wisdom to instead target both, with the victim having to use the...

FR are not really a homebrew setting I'd rather have a good live action show, probably not gonna bother with an animated show

And much of the point of playing D&D is that I can be and-or do things I can't in real life.

A while ago... Retire the character because he found his missing daughter and wanted to stay home and protect her. Cast heal on my...

While playing the 5e version of LotR, my character--a halfling scholar--made it very clear to his party that he did not want to go into...

My cleric had an encounter with the cursed Wish gem in Tomb of Horrors, which caused him to lose the ability to hold gemstones...

Particularly for lower-level play, you're pretty close to the mark overall here. Our games tend to be fairly lethal at low levels to...