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i think a few of the elven subspecies could probably just be pruned wholesale to let other species have more claim to the archetypes...

honestly elf need more compition over it's area of archtypes it has gotten to big

I find it sounds to high fantasy to think like that, but the dissolving social contract might be getting to me. are elves an archetype...

When I was first researching Dragonlance, I identified at least 2 periods in the setting's history where divine casters either lost...

And that's why the campaign concept pitch is so important. There's such a wide gap between "You were the promising young souls of your...

Of course the usual problem regarding that concept in D&D is the resistance to starting characters above first level. You can...

I think a lot of settings could benefit from just a short sidebar about what a 1st, 3rd, 5th, etc. level character means in that setting.

It doesn't help that there's a certain momentum-of-expectations that you have to deal with, and that's immensely stronger with D&D than...

where is just someone fundamentally restless and has no clear inheritance the perfect set of well-adjusted person to go adventuring

or the monotony of a safe village and 9-to-5 with the same people every day could be exactly the kind of thing to drive someone to drop...

Yeah it is kind of funny that the concept of a protagonist who had a decent family life and loving home is considered unconventional...

I have never mistaken ban lists for coherency, distinctiveness, or shapefulness. The vast majority of banlists are all about keeping...

But how can I be an outraged GM ranting about the entitlement of players in that paradigm? How can I be an outraged player ranting about...

Not what I said. People get angry when they feel their preferences have not been placed on, at the very least, top-equal billing.

It does create a very arbitrary line when one thing is generic enough to be in the PHB (Knowledge domain) but shunted off to the...