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There are some notable differences between the three sets. It's a bit odd to be dismissive in that particular fashion, when D&D has been producing 'more of the same' with amazing variance and vehemence of rightness and wrongness for 40 years.

Pact of the Chain is amazing, without it giving magic resistance. To be honest, the balance on the familiar options is already seriously out of whack; this would just make it worse.

It probably doesn't help that the lowest AC character in several of the parties I've seen is also the shapeshifted druid who happens to be the most obvious target in many cases. Doesn't actually change anything. +1 AC still makes 1 of the 20 attacks miss. Same damage mitigated whether it's to...

For extra mathematical clarity, if you have a 4 PC party and goblin archers who deal 5 damage on hit, 8 damage on a crit, rain 80 attacks on the party over the course of the fight: Fighter: 20% to be hit Rogue: 30% to be hit Bard: 40% to be hit Sorcerer: 50% to be hit If the goblins attack...

No, you said 20 attacks. That's why I said "your example". But it carries throughout. You're going to go from 4 to 3 hits from the goblin, 6 to 5 hits from the minotaur, 10 to 9 hits from the dragon, whatever the magic # of hits per 20 attacks is per monster. 1 harder to hit is pretty useful no...

You guys are in some strange games where DMs don't just bypass characters the monsters need 20s to hit. Especially someone Dodging who isn't actually making attacks anyways. But, more power to ya :)

And yet, in your example, your +2 to AC made a difference of exactly 2 hits :) +1 would have meant 1 hit. +3 would have meant 3 hits. All due to the magic of percentages. You _can_ turn AC and hp and enemy damage into an effective # of turns, but that's actually very tricky. Heck, at that point...

Yep, the warlock pact of chain can gain a cool familiar, but the warlock doesn't decide whether it's a special variant pseudodragon or quasit. In fact, if it happens to be one, such a pseudodragon or quasit can leave familiar service whenever it feels like. Note that these variant...

Note that in the case of both these items, you could have them handy, then attune them once you got to a situation which called for their use. About to go on a sea voyage? Trident it up. About to storm the archmage's tower? Brooch it up. The Con and Dex ones are definitely worth attunement for...

Benefits to d20 rolls don't need to scale. +1 AC is 5% less chance to be hit at all levels. +2 damage is more useful at 1st than 4th level it's true, but it does scale with extra attacks which the fighter can get many of, so it's still relatively solid. The TWF benefit is the most lop-sided...

Magic resistance's usefulness is a bit campaign dependent, as well as a bit dependent on what is covered. For example, spells are clearly covered, but is dragon breath? Medusa's gaze? It's not clear to me why a warlock would have access to these variants, though. I guess a DM could open up the...

For inspiration, I think what I'm tempted to do is give out inspiration token(s) to each player, but players can't use them for their own characters. When another character takes an action in line with their personality (bonds, flaws, etc), especially one that is less optimal for that PC (ie...

Well, now you have to give the list, man! I had some folks that loved rolling hp that made me ponder doing a "You roll hp, but it's every long rest" thing. Cause I'm opposed to really permanent things on a character coming down to who happened to be slightly (un)lucky, but people just having a...

Google turns up one story of a game where it was banned after the first time it was used, and thread after thread about how awfully it is written. Otherwise, looks like you're on your own.

I think you could remove the initial save. Or reduce it to a 3rd level spell and add 2 jumps per 2 levels, with 9th unbound. I think it used to be a 3rd level spell.

This is incorrect. It may be that all of the diseases listed have no onset (I did a cursory search for their analogs in the monster manual and dmg, but did not find them repeated which is _maddening_) but it most definitely does not mean you bypass the onset. It means you are afflicted by the...

A whole lot of threads on the internet would disagree, alas. Really, what I wanted to do was just read the rules for disease in the game. And here's the trick: there aren't any. The reason undead aren't immune to disease is because they wanted to allow you to have plot diseases that affected...

Contagion is basically a plot spell as written, used by NPCs to create disease outbreaks. Or for PCs, if your game has that level of war. It is perfectly valid to read it as either overpowered or useless to most PCs, because it does not talk about incubation times, spreading, or any of the...

Hey, now. You don't need to murder them right there and then. You can wait until later to poison them.

For clarity, I'm not suggesting that bartering has multiple check requirements. In truth, I wouldn't do checks for bartering, because it's not a facet of the game I care about, and not a facet of the game that I think _anyone_ should care about, especially at the expense of table time. The...