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It's perfectly doable, which pisses me off to no end. I want to kick WOTC's ass for making a version of D&D where Strength is a dump-stat, especially for a fighter.

I like the idea, but finesse is already broken in 5e. I would beware making it more broken, were I you.

Huh. Yeah, that's a poor wording in that book. Were I DM'ing, and lacking some sort of official clarification, I would require the "Knight of the Order" background. Or maybe the Knight variant Noble, now that I'm looking at that. Either one, really.

Even Sherlock Holmes had a Moriarty. Become Moriarty. Or, if you don't want to do that, then just DM your game like normal, and let the character see all those things. It really shouldn't be game-breaking. Just because a character has the Perception that automatically lets him spot clues, does...

That is probably the single most unique campaign I've ever heard of. Oh, the ideas. And also, that DM would have to be a pretty good DM to not get rules crazy mixed up.

I find character story and roleplay comes out better in a homogenous campaign. Everybody has expectations. One of the expectations, derived by players from those same players playing years of D&D, is that everybody's a murderhobo, or "adventurer". Upsetting expectations, right from the outset...

Son. Of. A. Bitch. You just proved Half-Life 3. I bow to your mad genius.

Personally, I've been giving more and more thought to race-as-class, and I'm coming to the conclusion that I like it. I think it goes some way towards solving huge min-max issues that have been plaguing this game since the 1st edition AD&D days, as well as potentially resolving the "an elf is...

I like where you're going with this, and I entirely agree, although I think a band-aid fix isn't as difficult as you make out. What I have done in my campaign is this: 1) Dexterity is the To-Hit modifier, always. 2) Strength is the Damage modifier, in every case except when it comes to...

Yes and no, at least not before reading your post. I don't like 90% of races having Darkvision, and no I hadn't considered adding LLV into my campaigns. I'm not opposed to it, actually. I'd probably call it Starlight Vision or something though, in order to better differentiate it from...

If it's not explicit, then it's up to GM interpretation. Were I GMing, I would allow it. You take Feat A first, then you take Feat B. It doesn't matter that it occurred during the same game session or character creation or whatever.

Honestly, the best spell-less Ranger is a Rogue. Seriously: Scout sub-class; 3rd level Natural Explorer & Bonus Proficiencies Survival&Nature; 9th level Land's Stride; 13th level Hide in Plain Sight; 17th level Foe Slayer Houndsman sub-class; 3rd level Beast Companion & Bonus Proficiency...

A low-magic setting, complete with enough non-magical class archetypes that players don't feel restricted in choice. We've had high-magic (Eberron), standard D&D magical medieval (Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Mystara, Planescape), gothic (Ravenloft), even faux-scifi (spelljammer)...

Personally, I'd talk to them about it first. Might they be happy with just multiclassing for future levels? If not, and they really had their heart set on a brand-spanking new character, I'd personally have them make a new whatever, start them at the minimum base experience for the party's...

You get Brutal Critical at level 9 Barbarian. Combine that with Champion 3 Improved Critical, Half-Orc Savage Attacks, and yeah that's pretty good. EDIT: Also, what Kruchy said above me. You don't get a 3rd attack at Fighter 5, so you'd have to go Fighter 10 for that 3rd. I'm not sure it's...

I don't give the character XP, no. But I don't let him be controlled as an NPC, either. Certainly not in combat. Because my fights tend to be on the harder side of things, and I absolutely will not kill or put a character in a position to be killed when that character is not being played by its...

The closest explicit rule I can come up with is from the DMG p119: "Flying characters can move from one place to another in a relatively straight line, ignoring terrain and monsters that can't fly or that lack ranged attacks." and the PHB p191: "If a flying creature is knocked prone, has its...

I am myself working on a low-magic setting, slowly. I'm introducing new homebrew/alt-rule aspects to the game fairly regularly, and my players seem to be keeping up with my tinkering alright. One thing that you might do, that I am going to be introducing at Wednesday night's session, is the...

Stop it. You made coffee come out of my nose.

Which is a completely crap assumption, at least from any sort of non- munchkin/murderhobo dungeoncrawl. I mean, it's what 1 long rest per 24 hours, something like that? So this game expects you to get into 8 fights over the course of every single day your characters are out there walking around...