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If you want stealthy archer, personally I'd go Battlemaster fighter, which let's you do all kinds of fun things at range like trip, disarm, etc, coupled to a Way of Shadow monk. That gives you a high speed, stealthy archer with a bag of tricks and the ability to offer a boot to the head to...

No, it really isn't. The last time this thread came up I thought the answer was "No" but checked the PHB to get the language exactly right. And the section describing bonding a magic weapon does not say you summon it, it says you create it, which is the exact same verb used in the sentence which...

Seconded. As far as planejamming goes, that's always been a part of it, in that Spelljammer was the first meta-setting to link the various game worlds without needing umpty-ump level spells. Then planescape came out and made it even easier. So really I see nothing wrong with replacing the...

Have you seen the glorious madness that is Dungeons the Dragoning?

Crystal spheres and phlogiston are both real world theories. Outmoded ones long since abandoned, but still real world source material. On topic if your players aren't sold on the mention of gun-toting anthropomorphic hippopotamai with british accents I'm not sure how to help them. I mean you...

Along this line, "psionics" is often considered too modern, and purists will whinge about it complaining "you got your filthy sci-fi in my precious fantasy." Yet if you read Lord of the Rings you'll note that most of the magic you see falls under the umbrella of psi-abilities. Telepathy, precog...

Translation is always tricky, and many things translate poorly. But for a simple example: Latin has 6 temporal tenses, English has 5, Japanese has 2. Which means not only that when translating something time related from Latin to Japanese will details be lost, but also that when translating...

I gotta ask, what negative connotation comes with "Bard"? Unless you just really, really don't like lutes. Seems appropriate. That makes Alice the Warlord, yes? Wrangling the party into line and cleaning up their messes?

While it's true that the term Warlord has negative connotations, the same holds true for the term Adventurer. (My thesaurus suggest Vagabond and Buccaneer as equivalent. Go back a century and it would be considered a polite term for a bandit or highwayman.) In fact almost any D&D class name has...

So play a Lore Bare, ditch the collegiate fluff and claim the power of your voice comes from your Siren grandmother.

Rope trick is very powerful in the specific circumstance of facing an organized and active enemy, in some area with a strong negative for retreating and reentering, but you can spare an hour for a short rest, when your party benefits strongly from a short rest, and the organized and active enemy...

Also Sahuagin, Merfolk, Locanth, Kraken, various waterbreathing dragons, fatigue, water damage to the pages of the spell book, navigation, weather, and the humiliation of dying because you tripped on a squid. Honestly if I were in a campaign and someone suggested this my response to be to put a...

While that's true, it was always a stupid idea. It works fine when you're dealing with actual encumberence, but then some guy always has to load the cart, or use Tensers floating wheelbarrow, or jury rig a balance scale out of two pikes, some twine, and an unfortunate goblin. And then the whole...

I'm gonna make a prediction. The Warlord is going to steal the Rangers role. Oh not the wildernessy, archery, Aragorny role. The Warlord will be the new class no one is ever quite happy with. The one that spawns endless debates, rewrites, homebrews, and theory crafting. The one with variants...

True, but then again, stealing magic from the gods is right there in the PHB Warlock goo fluff. "The Great Old One might be unaware of your existence or entirely indifferent to you, but the secrets you have learned allow you to draw your magic from it."

I think class design, and PrCs are the wrong design space for this stuff. We already have factions and associations right from the starter box. If you join a secret order in game, then congratulations, you have earned whatever mechanical benefit is associated with it (if any), whether that is a...

The tattooed monk PrC is the direct precursor to the 5e bender monk. Feat and Bo9S had plenty of fighter encounter powers. Between PrCs and magic items teleporting paladins and flying barbarians are kiddy stuff. 3e could get whacky. And to your later point, you could drop a 1e or 2e PC into 5e...

You definitely should. Not only is it a fun read, but the protagonist becomes a recurring character in the books, along with Valder the inn keeper.

Hulking Hurler. ;)

Also the White Raven and Devoted Spirit schools from the Book of 9 Swords. Devoted Spirit has inspirational "healing through pugilation." If I wanted to make a "Warlord" in 3.5 I'd probably start with a Crusader, rather than a Marshall. Dragon Shamans also played a strong support role with their...