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I agree. Playing the Moon druid felt like being railroaded into bear druid at lower levels, and at late game a mammoth druid. The generic animal templates grants creative freedom.

I noticed that too when reading Tasha's list of feats. However, from a balance perspective, if you consider to allow for Magic Initiates to use their spell slots for the chosen 1st-level spell, one must consider the ramifications of adding any one bard, cleric, druid, warlock, wizard, sorcerer...

I like all these new options. The dhampir feels like the new vryloka, and reborn as the new revenant, two of the more popular choices from the 4th edition we had at the table. The hexblood is also very nice.

The d6 HD can be improved with the Tough feat (making them almost equal to fighters in hp), and paired with optimized AC they can be quite tanky. In game we've found that most dual-wielding theorycrafts are put at the road side, since the bonus action economy rarely made it more practical than...

One can wield a shadow blade and another off-hand weapon. However, to cast a cantrip and make one attack with a bonus action off-hand attack, you would have to sacrifice one of the attacks of the shadow blade (as per Tasha's) which I think you alluded to in your last question. The booming blade...

In Shadow of the Demon Lord you have statblocks for animals separated into Small, Medium, Large and Huge Animals. You just add a trait such as swimmer or pack fighting for specific animals. The Transformation tradition spells just references these simple statblocks. It works great.

You could take a look at Pathfinder 1st edition and how they tried to solve the same question. Using several versions of beast shape and similiar spells for plants, dragons, elementals and so forth. A set amount of bonuses and a list of traits were used to 'build' the creature you polymorphed into.

The DM roleplays every gender in the setting. In light of that, players should not constrain themselves, should they want to portray a particular gender. But each to their own, and every table is unique.

No, that is wrong. From the 4e Forgotten Realms Player Guide, page 27, under 1st-level Swordmage At-Will powers, you find: "Booming Blade" and "Greenflame Blade". Reading up on those powers, they read much alike the 5e versions. From the 4e Neverwinter Campaign Setting, page 71 to 74, under...

The cantrips from SCAG are very powerful considering that they, at face value, can be used by any '1-attack' warrior to gain a respectable damage increase. And ontop of that the modifying factors mentioned above come into play. We all know that booming blade and green-flame blade are ported...

This game is a glorious creation. You can start in a mode that is easy to understand, even though at later levels the complexity of character-building can be exponential, at your leisure. Of course, some odds and ends need to be ironed out, as is expected. On the whole, the game removes the...