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I think something that often gets lost in discussions like this is that D&D is constrained to be a mainstream game. D&D is the biggest game in the RPG industry, and as such it makes a certain amount of money. WotC are a business, and they are not going to deliberately reduce the amount of money...

laugh Grousing is a fundamental human right (I hope; I've done enough of it)

Although be fair - the PHB goes out of its way to say "The core races are generally available, but any of the more esoteric ones are only there if the DM says so". I can see your argument, but the problem is there are lots of people who like having many choices - both players and DMs (hi). If...

FWIW, there's a magic item that I have handed (... well, the party had to kill a higher-level wizard who had it) out in one of my games where spell battles are common: The Counter's Shield (Requires attunement) (A smooth stone brooch in the shape of a shield, polished to a dark mirror shine)...

Easy enough for the GM to say "Old spells resist more", and either have it suppressed briefly or "You can't dispel this with the standard spell". Depending on how rare higher level casters are, though, I'd probably just say "This effect is resistant to dispel, and can only be removed with a...

... So, I was curious about why people think it's been nerfed. Let's see. I don't have my old 4e books to hand here, but I can see a few people saying "No counterspells in 4e" on this forum back in 2010. Some digging finds a couple of specific things that look like homebrew, but it looks fair...

A few points: You don't link to the original PDF, as far as I can see. On hobgoblins, you pick ONE of the extra 'help' abilities, and the disadvantage applies to the next attack by whoever you hit (not the second attack, which would be horrible to track). The hobgoblin save bonus from nearby...

Monkey familiar? Wearing robes?

That's how they have presented this change in everything we have seen so far.

I think the way they should handle this is with a sidebar that suggests "Any of these races which grew up in the Feywild ... " along with perhaps an example for how they could be worked into other settings. Suggestions are good, after all.

I quite like the concept of relative and absolute morality. That is, mortals have relative morality - their good, evil, law and chaos are just ways that mortals use to talk about things, and are as make-believe as justice, love, and the like. They have exactly the effect on reality as we give...

I have an absolutely massive soft spot for the Principia Discordia. I picked it up sometime when I was fairly young, and it was my introduction to some really important concepts that have remained valuable to me. I have no doubt that I would have been introduced to them in other ways if I hadn't...

... Do we have a bearfolk anywhere? Because if so, I'm calling it - Winnie the Pooh 5e conversion.

And just like hobbits, they probably don't wear shoes. Possibly for economic reasons... Either that, or they have to buy clown shoes

I like these (apart from the rabbitfolk jump). The rewrite of the Hobgoblin save face ability is a lot better, fluff-wise - and fits their origin well. Notice that it's PB/Long rest instead of 1/SR - interesting.

I'm very impressed with Solasta. In particular, the way it really does implement the 5e mechanics almost exactly, and makes for a fun game using it.

So, I think 5e has an absolutely massive debt to 4e. While mechanically it may not look it, it takes a lot of the core ideas in 4e and develops them into something different. In both editions, there is a central design that all of the mechanics conform to. However, those central designs - and...

There's a big difference between an open discussion of preferences and a screaming match between increasingly codified "sides". I have learned a lot from people with different preferences - and discovered a few things I wouldn't otherwise have known I liked - but I learn a lot more from people...

Entertainment. That might not sound so bad, but consider: Anything you've done before? Boring. You need to keep on doing new things. More dangerous. Bigger. More on fire.

Hmm. I'll bite. 2e: It's getting too long ago, now, but... the shape of 2e in my memory is a familiar, slightly crazy lump of contradictions that were fun. 3e: The first attempt at making d&d make any sense. The OGL, for all the good it did (and really, try to imagine what the wider RPG...