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. . . and how was that forcing you to have your character in a wheelchair in game? Sometimes D&D is a sanctuary from your demons. Sometimes it is an arena where you can fight your demons in a way that you can't in real life.

That is literally what escapism means. And its why lots of people play D&D and other RPGs.

You're entitled to your opinion on half-races when it comes to elves and orcs, but they too can be important when it comes to representation. As such WotC is unlikely to erase them from their worlds. People care. People who play this game. Real people, in the real world. That's who cares. Also...

Plasmoids don't seem to have eyes as such, so a vision-correction prosthetic for them would probably look rather different than glasses for a human. I could definitely see a plasmoid using enchanted glasses, or purely aesthetic ones just to provide social cues to make humanoids more comfortable...

Other than the obvious (existence of magic, non-human races etc,) how do you believe that the fantasy depiction of demographics designed to appeal to the broadest modern audience for the game should differ from those of modern demographics? Why would a creature with no eyes have a need for...

We were level 9 or 10 and it came very close to defeating us. We skirmished with him several places in the castle and had managed to drive him off at the cost of a lot of resources, including a very memorable chase as his forces took the sunsword and led is in an extreme chase across a lot of...

Priority-dependent. Attack the Cleric if the priority is "the DM wants to try to kill one of their player's characters." Attack the Fighter if the priority is "the NPC wants to fight and escape." The Cleric isn't a threat to them escaping. The Wizard probably isn't either unless the NPC can...

For many settings, being a PC class isn't something that can just be learned: you either have the potential or you don't. For example some level of inborn talent may be required to become a Wizard even if it isn't on the scale of full-out Sorceror. In Eberron, where more people can use magic...

In my experience, it is quite common for DMs to run the module or published campaign as it is written.

I believe that it is likely that the OP is asking about the Great Weapon Fighting Fighting style, not the feat. Re-rolling 1s and 2s when you're adding more dice like smites or sneak attack is a significant boost, but not excessive I think.

Indeed. Saying that granting Extra Attack to a random Sorceror is fine, doesn't take into account when they take a Hexblade dip and cast Shadow Blade or Necrotic Shroud. Likewise if you're allowing feats to grant even more attacks, they will play merry heck with Paladins for example, which are...

Thinking about it, rather than Extra Attack, it would probably be easier to allow people to use feats to poach the other martial damage progression. A feat granting +1d6 Sneak attack that can be taken multiple times would be closer in line with other feats, would be a more even progression, and...

I think that if you see the magic initiate feat as equivalent to scaling Extra Attacks or full spellcasting progression, there is a certain amount more groundwork we will have to lay before establishing a balance baseline Personally I would require proficiency in at least 4 martial weapons and...

That sounds quite logical. Even assuming that these alien species have roughly the same overall processing power as a human, the concept that one species is generally better at distinguishing and visualising audio cues, and another might be better at the thought patterns required for advanced...

Is he? Is a typical elf one with a 10 in dex, a 14 in dex, a 20in dex?

If I remember rightly, making a gun is much harder than making gunpowder. Gunpowder had been around for quite a while before advances in metallurgy (driven by demand for church bells IIRC) allowed the creation of an actual effective firearm. Making a metal tube strong, straight and smooth enough...

While I can see some individual swordmages reading theoretical treatises and manual of arms' to learn new techniques, I can definitely see others learning from old established masters, or even observation of natural phenomena. Relegating the swordmage's magical synthesis of both thought and...

Is there really a need to make them better than everything else? Just as there is no reason to assume that the 5e heavy crossbow is of the same design and operation as the historical cranequin-cranked arbalest, there is no reason to assume that a 5E gun is of the same design or operation as a...

If a PC has fully retired and become part of the persistent campaign world, it is technically the DM's call as to their activities and impact on that campaign world after the player ceased to have influence on them. . . However, common courtesy would indicate that the DM would depict them as the...

5e already has many archetypes that are 'person who casts and fights': The point of the swordmage is that they don't cast a spell and then make some weapon attacks like the many gishes in 5e do. The swordmage is using magic to fight. Not like "cast a buff then start swinging". Like "project the...