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Oooh, I have an idea building on the idea of "racial backgrounds" DnD once had race-as-class, now, for a basic experience, we can have background-as-race and remove the ancestries! Background: Dwarven Adventurer ASI; Con, Str or Wis Skills; Athletic, Survival Tool; Smithing tools Feat...

😊 thank you. I think LMoP+PotA+ a bunch of adventures and delves from TftYP, GoS, Staircase could be a superb Greyhawk sandbox experience with an overarching plot that can happen over a long time period.

To build on that (sorry if the idea is unwanted) I made a nice Phandelver-》Prince of the Apocalypse campaign once, using the magic forge of the mine as the place the elemental weapons key to PotA were created, and the drow mage at the end of LMoP be the apprentice of the mad drow mage who forged...

Id go with something pretty basic and relatable: mana points and tiered thematic spells schools (fire, wood, beast, mind, teleportation, ice, draconic, etc).

Can I recommend a non-spell solution? Take the ''beast of the air'' statblock from the Beast Master (using the same rules, maybe switching around its ability scores), but make it as a medium ride-able mount, 1x per day for free, spend a spell slot to summon it back after that.

Wizards. They barely have any feature outside of more spells. They don't even need to prepare their rituals, so that's one less stress on your prep for the day! And magic being what it is in DnD, you'd be hard pressed to pick completely useless spells. Just pick the ones that sound cool and...

This makes me want to play a transmuter with a custom background as a spell-smith. Just have to find a way to get my hands on Cure Wound to create those staves of healing.

Remove any ASI from 2014 racial feats to make kin-specific origins. That could be good.

It's the story of Golum and his hated ring, all over again. You hate it, but it's yours. You became a ugly version of yourself because of it, but Hell if you are going to let a new cool hobbit kids steal what's yours!

Try to say to them." You are right" and they'll switch position and snap at you " you are wrong, I'm not right, you can't know what's right because you are wrong and I'm right" So yeah..don't get your hopes up and ignore. Anyway, it hasn't really about TTRPGs for a while.

I sure hope there's a definition of the world that makes it better because for now it does sound like WotC is wrong because they don't insist of having genetic evilness and STR cap for female in the DMG.

You could always use the same recovery as the Plot Point from the DMG: recover x amount at level 1. 1 seems a little low, given that HDs are used during the day to recover, meaning that a low level character can quickly be unable to recover on a short rest until it's next level up. It depends on...

I tend to target HD a lot for failed rolls on a skill challenge. Like, if you can still make progress while climbing that crumbling wall, but you spend 1 HD to get that success. I also use HD drain to simulate the old "level drain" of yore and getting back from 0hp cost 1HD (which you can roll...

I love how the OGL kerfuffle and the removal of bioessentialism are put in the same "WotC fails" box! And it's all strikes against...the quality of the DMG? Somehow? Like, I want WotC to treat its partners and employees fairly and also I want rules for fantasy racism and sexism!

@ezo do you allow exploding die on all attacks or just on nat20 rolls? I cant remember. I have in mind of allowing all damage roll to explode once, then allow crits to add +1 weapon damage roll and remove the cap of once per attack.

Wasn't there a Whisper bard made specially for Snarf in XGtE? You may note than there's a disturbing resemblances between Snarf posting styles and specific hatred and Xanathar's. Coincidence? I think not.

A ask a CON roll (not save, not skill) against a DC set by the environment at the end of a long rest to see if the PC gained anything from the rest. Wanna rest in that haunted forest next to the bandit camp under pouring rain without food? You may wake up from your rest in the same pitiful...

Big fan of Theros and Ravnica as both example of different fantasy genres and workshops on factions and piety as pillars of campaign building. Eberron also would be in that category.

I once converted all spellcasters to the warlock chassis (a mix of at-wills and short-rest casting). It was pretty fun. In addition to SR spells Warlock had their Invocations Cleric had their SR Channel Divinity. Bard had their SR Inspiration at 1st level. Druid have Wildshapes Etc All...

We can keep the hairstyles.