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If you want actual differences then go back to look at the actual real-world source material rather than trying to shift through reams of previous D&D information. Because I really don't care about whatever crap has built up over the editions to cloud the issue. Nature Clerics would be the...

A Nature Cleric worships a God of Nature. A Druid worships Nature.

I have a Mountain Dwarf Wizard (War Mage) PC that I get to play occasionally, who wears half-plate armor and wields a battleaxe. Everyone who sees him assumes him to be a Fighter. I love it. But yes, totally; if every Dwarf is a Chaotic Good Wizard then why bother having any structural...

We've already been doing similar stuff for quite a while. We allow every PC to have a Feat at 1st level to allow for greater character customization (and in compensation give all monsters the Tough Feat.) Because of this we don't allow the Variant Human (no starting out with TWO Feats at 1st...

Before my Hexblade I had played another Warlock, of the Pact of the Blade Warlock with the Great Old One Patron. He had the Sage background and had originally been a mathematical prodigy, and at 25 years old was the youngest-ever professor of mathematics at the prestigious University of New...

It's always nice to seem them spell it correctly, with an ampersand (rather than the word "and.")

No, not at all. I've played one, whom I loved, but he died at 3rd level due to a heroic (perhaps foolishly so) final charge against an enemy to save another party member, after having just rolled a 20 on a Death Save and recovering to 1 HP. They are very cool, but not overpowered. A lot of...

That is an extremely poor argument. I guess it must be different for you, but for me if a story doesn't make internally consistent logical sense than it is a bad story, regardless of whether it is a "mere" magical Fantasy story or not. The presence of magic in a story does not mean that logic...

But this is akin to a King Arthur carrying Excalibur around on his hip, and becoming better at fighting with his dagger as a result. It does make a certain kind of sense, but in a way that is abstract, overly gamist, and distasteful to me. In fact it feels like gaming the system rather than...

I guess the reasoning is that a magic shield grants extra protection not because it is a functioning shield that is magically stronger, but because it is a magical talisman that grants magical protection no different from a Ring of Protection... albeit one which just so happens to also be a...

I don't recall ever reading that one before. That ruling is... troubling. It almost sounds to me like the ruling of a first-time DM who had never played the game before and wasn't sure of why things worked the way they do.

Predator is basically an Action movie that becomes a Slasher Horror movie halfway through.

It depends entirely on the group.

This figure here looks great. I think glossy obsidian black skin is very aesthetically pleasing, and is one of the reasons for the appeal of the Drow; Dark Elves are still Elves, and therefore beautiful. I do basically like the look of the new figure (although those magical visual-effect...

"More more or less?" Did... did you ever read the Complete Psionics Handbook? It was a skill-based system, more akin to Proficiency rolls with power points than anything to do with the magic system. Maybe you meant 5E or something? I have no idea how it worked in that system. I would have...

Ugh; do not like. I loved the Mystic presentation of psionics from the Unearthed Arcana articles.

If this occurred in a game I was DMing, I would allow the Banishment spell to force the soul out, or a Dispel Evil and Good (which is basically 5th Edition's equivalent of an Exorcism spell.) I would certainly rule that a simple Protection from Evil and Good would hedge out the soul's ability...

So in other words, it seems to be litle more than character customization options that any decent, flexilke Dungeon Master would already allow? I mean, our gaming group has allowed minor racial alteration options like this if a player asked the DM for as long as I can remember.

I am really liking the trade dress/page layout and colors of this book! Very, very cool and beautiful. Something I really want to know is what is up with the Bladesinger in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything; I actually just started a new Bladesinger character not too long ago, and I would really...

Very cool and interesting essay. It made me think of my brother's new(ish) campaign setting, with which I give him some small advice, in which he purposefully included different regions in the world that are conducive to running different campaigns of various sub-forms of Fantasy. As just a...