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The way I deal with unwanted world consequences like mending making mundane labor obsolete, is to say that "at-will" casting is a mechanical abstraction. For adventuring purposes, yes its effectively at-will. But in the world, casting a cantrip takes a significantly bigger toll on you than...

When I went through the 2024 spell list for things to selectively adapt to my 2014 games, I generally grabbed the changes that allow you to hit additional targets by up casting. I didn't examine those as closely as I did other changes because it conceptually seemed like it shouldn't be a...

I usually only ban subclasses if I don't like the fluff--and I often try to tweak the fluff a bit to make it fit first. Subclasses that are over or underpowered I can just fix without much trouble. After all, I paid for this and I want it to be available. After looking at it for a bit, I just...

I wouldn't change it, and I probably left a comment on why I think it works fine on the thread about setting off traps. But if you do feel the need to change it... Make them be castable at will, but you have to prepare them with one of your normal spell preparations to be able to cast...

I occasionally see it mentioned that rogues are weak, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm wanting to find out where the difference in perspective comes from. Is it based on fighters optimizing feats like Great Weapon Master and Polearm Master? In that case, it does move them onto a whole...

I'm planning on eventually coming up with some way to convert monsters into PCs. My thought is that you start with a monster and it counts as a certain level. Then you can add class levels or maybe more monster levels. Have to figure out what changes are made when it converts to PC. I'm not...

Despite the fact that those were both technically valid subclasses at the same time, I don't think they should be used together. Original 5e Bladesinger (which I liked better than the revised version) had no such feature. When they changed it (unnecessarily vastly increasing it's melee damage...

My first experience with fireball is something I still consider one of my formative D&D experiences. I was playing Pool of Radiance on a Commodore 64, and ha just made 5th level and memorized this promising sounding fireball spell. I find myself in that kobold cave up north of Phlan. I cast...

Since the rules overall aren't terribly complicated, I'll just go through them all. This includes 2014 RAW, an imported rule from 2024, some house rules, and some interpretation of vague 2014 rules. I'm not bothering to identify which parts are which. The goals are to create a reasonable...

These are exactly the sorts of things that do need to be addressed. In my own games I start with the RAW for "hand economy" and then tweak it for exactly that purpose. For example, with my house rules, TWF is the most powerful melee style. Therefore, the fact that they don't have any easily...

Good point, thanks! Sorry, I was being overly flippant. (Also, I haven't followed the thread, and I don't know what the state of the conversation is so far. I was mostly responding to the topic, and similar ones from the past.) Here's what I want to convey: (A) The codified rules of the game...

Well, I know that I never seem to have enough money to buy and scribe all the spells I want. A proper wizard learns every spell he possible can. And keeps a backup spellbook. Expensive components can add a reasonable cost too. Not just the consumed ones (though that can end up being one of the...

I've been considering whether, with the state of my house rules, I even still need multiclassing to get what I want from it. My goal is to conceptually approximate AD&D demi-human multiclassing, because that's an important part of D&D to me. It's not important to me at all that every potential...

I was fine with 3.5e psionics. I think giving it a bit of its own flavor, more like the mystic in its later playtests would help, but my version needs to be comparable in power to a full caster. There needs to be the equivalent of 9th-level psionic effects--not just power levels. For example...

One or two characters do have comprehend languages, but it's a limited resource. How it has appeared in play: -A character who otherwise wouldn't be the party spokesperson takes the role in a village where they are the only one who speaks the native language. It is assumed they are translating...

I came up with an entire language system for D&D with the goals of making it so everyone doesn't speak Common, there is interesting linguistic diversity, and yet PCs who want to can reasonably expect to learn enough languages to get a lot of use out of them. Note that this is a multiverse...

If there are going to be more than one or two wishes in your game, you really should spend some thought deciding on general principles of how they work. As an example, I do it this way. Wish is not the greatest power in the multiverse. Their are deities and other mythic beings that can surpass...

Focusing people on what it does best and letting them know there are other games out there that are better at other things. Yes, I know that's not an easy ask in a capitalist system, but I think it would help the game if we used it for what it is particularly suited for in relation to other...

Sure, that's true. Most fighters want to have a skill or two they are the best in the group at, a useful background feature, etc. I'm not disagreeing with that. One of the things I was alluding to is that the position that either non-casters need to have features that allow them to accomplish...

Just did a real quick glance. The Forgotten Realms definitely goes into more detail than other settings, and tries to make some more explicit statements about how/where multiverse lore intersects with the Forgotten Realms history and personages, but the Elder Elemental Eye originated in context...