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The designs of the extraplanar outsiders is too naturalistic. Why does a being made out the the good-evil-lawful-chaotic energy built up in a person’s soul look like it can be (by D&D mortal species standards) my cousin? (Actually with tieflings and aasimar running around they could be).

This list gives a good rundown: Wikipedia: List of D&D Rulebooks.

I can go either way depending on the moods. That said, even in a comedic game I at prefer it at least the main villain is legitimately threatening.

I picked monstrosities, and by monstrosities I mean sorrowsworn, because Wizards didn’t want to make a Shadowfell entity category for some reason. I think sorrowsworn are well suited for having a lot of customization options. As embodiments of abject misery, there’s a lot more than five forms...

Pyromancers Blessed of Parakaros, the Eyes in the Flame, pyromancers have the fire of the phoenixes flowing through their veins. A flame both destructive and restorative, the use of phoenix fire has one caveat: everything that is burned up must one day be remade. The smoke and ash of anything...

Arcane is magic that’s a “brute fact” or “accident”, or at least can be treated as such easily enough. It doesn’t have an obvious telos, as in a purpose or goal for its existence. Wizards might get philosophical about the arcane and try to discover if there is a purpose for it, but they don’t...

I’ve kind of soured on big species lists, so my latest setting is very humanocentric. The species are as follows: Humans. Cavernborn, humans who are adapted to the Underdark equivalent. Elarin, natives to the same, they’re like a mix of dark elf and grey alien. Aetherials, basically like planar...

FAITH: The Unholy Trilogy Avernum and Spiderweb games in general A few Clark Ashton Smith stories I’m sure there’s more.

Maybe…? In my latest campaign one of the first encounters my players ran into was a shadow. I had implemented some house rules for conditions where ghostly creatures lose their resistance/immunity to mundane weapons (such as being in light for the shadow), but even then killing ghosts hardly...

One of my players’ character was a GOO warlock, but no body caught on. Even if they did, they situation was dire enough that the people he was interacting with would probably give him a pass as long as he was helping them. That’s the state of my setting really. In more peaceful times people...

Bards using the left over divine words that were used to speak creation into existence…. Bards are ur-priests.

Some (not all, that would make the book to big) monsters with extra customization options, like the Unspeakable Horror in VRGtR. Two examples in particular I’d like to see: Gulthias Tree. I find it strange how the Blights section on the 2014 MM builds up Gulthias Trees as something that can be...

I picked a pretty eclectic mix, but putting it all together implies this would be my favorite sort of adventure: Solving a mystery surrounding an event that caused or involves the sudden appearance of monsters. It will involve a lot of traveling (with hexes or otherwise), talking to NPCs and...

Lloth is coming for Zuggtmoy for title of most weirdly cute demon lord.

Was a tough decision between the fighter and wizard, but I ultimately went with wizard. With fighters there’s a wide variety of concepts you can fit into them, which is good, but there’s not a lot to distinguish those concepts from each other. But the problem with wizards goes even deeper...

The thing with x10 rural rule is that, while close enough to reality, it also means I now have a metric heck-ton of villages that I certainly can’t flesh out or even name. This isn’t exactly a problem, but I still feel weird leaving it all in Offscreelandia.

There’s no Inner Planes, elementals are nature spirits on the Prime. Demon just means an evil spirit from the Void (super-hell, basically), devils are a type of demon but they still don’t like being called that. One factor in how powerful a demon is comes from how much the evil that spawned it...

Non-spellcasting divinely gifted class. More subclasses like the zealot barbarian can work too.

One of the conceits of my setting is, because of the ascendancy of a new generation of demonic powers who are ushering in an age of hell on earth, the line between “adventurers” and everyone else is becoming increasingly blurry. Adventurers could very well just be people trying to survive the...

My players are about to see some, though it will be in a dreamscape rather than in the physical world. And these gods will just be watching….