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I always wanted to play a very old dwarf who still thought it was first edition, and insisted that there's no such thing as a half-orc bard or a warlock or a dragonborn.

Just reminding everyone that giant goats are Challenge Rating 1/2, and therefore can be played as sidekicks. They are stubborn, sure-footed, and non-picky eaters. You can ride them like horses. They are extremely loud. If you're running a Ravenloft campaign, your goat sidekick can be named...

Like I said, for me, it's all about having a somewhat grounded (or at least informed) version of the U.S. military in the middle, and then all of this comic book craziness --- ninjas and sci-fi and supervillains --- orbiting around it. Get enough verisimilitude going with the Army stuff, and...

Here's hoping that G.I. Joe ends up being a decent engine for some other modern action games. And I hope it finds a good sweet spot for the Joes, which for me is that Larry Hama combination of real-world military detail, 80s ninja mysticism, and straight-up comic book nonsense.

It is, isn't it? I wonder if there would be any substantial consensus reached. And five more pages of DMG . . . I dunno. See how these sidekick rules shape up, I suppose. Five more pages of MM . . . flumphs, I guess. A progressive, inclusive take on flumphs.

I dig it . . . don't want to pay for the same thing twice. YMMV, but it seems to me that some stuff just fills a niche so well that it warrants repetition. I'd include the swashbuckler; those "Sword Coast" close-combat cantrips; the low-level elemental spells from Xanathar's; maybe the...

It also helps out with the "Core + 1" rule observed in the Adventurers League.

Didn't notice the "parlaying with monsters" rules until just now. First off . . . great name for a band. Parlaying With Monsters. Second . . . now I want to play a rogue with high Charisma and Wisdom, expertise in Persuasion and Insight, and just talk stuff out, y'know? Try to think...

I supposed that if you squint a little, there was some stuff with the Vanir that would at least be nature-worship, and would justify druids (albeit probably a pretty rough bunch of "Midsommer" weirdos). Actually, that Strixhaven sounds pretty hip, too.

Planeshift: Innistrad makes it seem like humanity is hopelessly outgunned. You're surrounded by well-entrenched Universal monsters; also demons; and Cthuhlu just showed up; and basically God just went crazy and sent the Church and the angelic hordes out to attack you. That could all be dialed...

I just looked it up and saw that Innistrad has tricorn hats. That's an excellent hat! I'm sold.

Innistrad seems awfully close to Ravenloft in some respects, but I suppose doing classic horror without all the baggage of nearly 40 years of Ravenloft has some appeal.

"Theros" kicks all kinds of ass, so I'm optimistic that this is a good model for future one-shot setting books. Having thought about Wakanda far too much the past couple of days, I still think that an Afrocentric D&D campaign setting should be a priority. I don't know M:TG enough to know if it...

I see that there's a new set of Magic cards on the way, dealing with the Viking-inspired world of Kaldheim. There's been a little bit of rune-related stuff in Unearthed Arcana over the past few months. As long as they're commissioning all that art of beardy axey people, seems to me that it...

I'm into Theros right now, and I guess if you squint a little, these could work.

Hopeful for a cool take on a modern 5e. The likely problem is that a lot of characters in Hellboy seem like unique creatures . . . which is actually easier to model with something like GURPS.

Champion of Kruphix (god of secrets) + Knowledge Cleric + Sailor background is actually pretty hip . . . I tend to default to knowledge cleric concepts involving a sage who has to be coaxed out of his library, but here's a restless mariner, always wondering what's over the next horizon.

Drunken Master Monk + Satyr. Obviously.

Minotaur + Eldritch Knight + Sage background + max out Str and Int would make for a good Hank McCoy type --- a beautiful mind in a beastly body. As a variation on that theme, Minotaur + Eloquence Bard + Courtier background, for the man-bull who talks like Kelsey Grammer and moves comfortably in...

Iconoclast + Chaotic Neutral + Monk + Zaheer from "Legend of Korra" would be a cool character, but very hard to incorporate into a typical party, and maybe better as an antagonist. Sort of an anarchist philosopher who rejects divine dominance over mortal beings.