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The problem is the WotC shorthand in the PHB of the cultures for drow and orcs are they are EVIL and the character, while different, must fight against their nature. It is also constantly reinforced in every subsequent mention of the orcs and drow of how decadent and evil they are, except a few...

I think you are bound for disappointment Bacon Bits. 5E DarkSun is coming and I don't know that we are getting all the proper subsystems, judging by how psionics are handled so far. I think they will produce an adequate defiling system and rules for wilderness survival. I am apprehensive about...

Added complexity is watered down? I always thought the moustache twirling evil black skinned dominatrix spider elves were pretty simplistic. (Eclavdra doesn't like anyone to mention her moustache.) Part of this comes from Bob Salvatore's favorite Mary Dru being the lone shining beacon of...

So we have come to the point of the thread where calling someone 'grognard' is ageism and discrimination. I figure I would catch up any latecomers to the thread. More young people is a good thing. A large over 40 age group is a good thing. Grognard gets tossed around as a pejorative and as a...

Who da drow? You da drow!

Unibrow, Lowenbrau and Evenflow. Oof. They are all still drow. They might not even need to do a lineage race. I could see just optional racial traits like for tiefling. Maybe swap a spell-like or proficiency.

I would like psionics to really break the Vancian system rut we have been stuck in for almost 50 years. Psionics should be innate spellcasting, (so should sorcery but that ship has sailed for this edition.) As an innate spellcaster, magic should be more fluid. There should be base spells, like...

I don't know that there will be new subraces. I think at most they will create lineages like in Ricky's Guide to Spookytown. The Southern elves live in a 'place of shade', I would imagine this a part of the deep forest/jungle where little sunlight pierces the canopy. I also imagine the Starlight...

If it is as fun as Willow, I will be a happy D&D movie viewer. After watching Game Night, I have had my expectations rise. (they were pretty low) No Beholder acting as a guard dog.

So we know it is set in the Forgotten Realms and Rege Jean Page is not playing Drizzt. The rest of the 'precis' is bunk?

Doddering Old Git is taken. Now, where are my Dark Sun book and full psionics system?

Even better a continuation of the 80's cartoon. They just posted screenshots the other day.

<S> I urge you to all switch from Grognard to the acceptable terms Wizened Old Crone or Old Grumpy Fart. </S> By the way, almost all of Gen X is contained in the 40+ demographic. We are old too. I celebrate that a majority of players are under 40. That means the game has a bright future, rather...

Dragonlance is a weird beast. It was a phenomenon but has not been in the public eye very much for almost 2 decades. The 3E incarnation was a fraction of the exposure and it was more of a novel presence than game system presence. And some of the recent DL is bad. The animated movie is not even...

I always hope for another setting search. Eberron is a great setting and many of all three finalists' ideas worked their way in there. D&D Modern is a classic setting I guess, so is Alternity, but I would like to see those settings explored in 5E. Any setting that would expand the systems...

I figure there will be some sort of Dragonlance campaign book coming out. It will most likely reset to the War of the Lance and be a big ol' nostalgia-fest of NPCs we can argue stats over. It will mesh with the new trilogy and there will be much 'synergy' in the releases. I expect they will...

I keep being torn between wanting a faithful update of the '91 box set to 5E and a reimagining of Dark Sun for a modern audience. I love original Dark Sun, but it will be very hard to replicate in 5E with no psionics, lackluster defiling corruption options, and the problematic treatment of...

I understand the array of stats for Zaknafein, but I don't understand the values. There is no need to blow up the abilities to such puffery. I get having a high intelligence, Zaknafein was also the strategist for House defense, after all. I agree with @Seramus, use -4 on all the stats and he is...

This Harkon is just a thirsty bard from Cormyr, a fashion-aware wolfwere out on the prowl. I like it.

I like the reskinning of existing spells to help a budding necromancer. Undead Servant, Skeletal Hand, Find Familiar with more necro-friendly options would be cool. I like a crawling claw, undead animal, or a floating skull. I am not sure a necromancer would have a full-bodied fighting minion...