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The most simple reason is that the BM manoeuvres can be used to boost your Damage when you hit, make a miss into a hit, add special effects on a hit, be used to take special actions in exchange for foregoing an attack... It's more versatile, and while each one is limited to affecting one attack...

I like it a lot, and just added it to my game world as the norm for non drow elves, rather than a special blessing. I'm still on the fence about whether mixblood elves should obtain it. (As in my world the D&D standard elf is born from generations of their elven family intermingling with the...

I've not had it come up in my games, but that's mostly because we've yet to hit a point where feats mattered, and my players refuse to play humans. I will say it's a strong feat (and will likely dial it back to prevent super advantage), but that's mostly just out of the theoretical versatility...

As one of those who prefers Theatre of the Mind play, what I prefer over maps and minis is a collection of art, usually on a tablet or something, that can be used to set the scene and establish the mood.

Generally, I feel like a quicker solution to solving short rest based classes not getting enough rests (and for whatever reason you desire not to change the rest constraints) is to instead triple the resources and restrict it to long rest recovery. So a Warlock doesn't have two spell slots per...

Sure, but how often has Corellon been referred to as if the god was male and exclusively male, conveniently forgetting that very facet since then?

You have to really look for reasons to include yugoloths, but they're there, though usually from the Mortal's end. Almost everything a Yugoloth is good for in the Blood War has some form of application in the Prime Material, though obviously a villain able to afford to command such creatures is...

Again, I can only speak for myself, and not all Trans gamers, but I'd rather not. I'd rather have the mutability of your character's gender and physical sex to be taken for granted. I want to play in a world where being who I am isn't the basis of some epic quest, but just accepted. I struggle...

As only one of the resident trans gamers her, I won't speak for everyone else. However, for me, fluid elves are rad as hell and should become the default in future publishings. The bigger thing to me, though, was that aside from calling Corellon a father figure (and a couple lines that seem more...

Terms and conditions apply to elf reincarnation, a big one being the worship of Corellon. If someone else has claim on your soul, well that's just too bad. No reincarnation for you!

I already limit books by what feels "right" for said world, so I've never been too concerned about how disallowing the combination of certain books would disallow certain "thematically appropriate" combinations. The few times I played in AL it never really bothered me either, as I still had a...

I'm actually planning on the "conflicting theories" model, with Great Wheel and World Axis being the predominantly accepted. Lagging behind them is the World Tree (though I need figure out how I want to arrange that,) as well as the Five Spheres of BECMI Immortal. I may add an opposing sphere to...

I voted other as well. Whether the setting came from their imagination or a book of someone else's, all that really matters is that the DM makes it feel real.

You're not the first one to come up with this idea, but I'm not sure how well it'd work in practice. Nevermind the whole mount issue, I'm not actually sure how easy it is to ride a steed in combat while both your hands are busy with lances. That said, if it is that easy to ride a horse without...

I just ran the math on them both. Assuming the immunity to poison doesn't come up enough to affect its effective HP, the Myrmidon is in line with what the DMG expects out of a CR 7 creature. It's the CR 5 Earth Elemental that's punching above its weight, coming in around CR 6.5 - CR 7.

I'm ok with the prevalence of the deities in the lore personally, because even real world mythology loves to blame everything on the gods meddling in the affairs of mortals. However, I might not use too much of the lore here, simply because I have my own plans for my world. That being said, the...

I considered the feat when I was hypothesizing a Pact of the blade Warlock multiclassed with swashbuckler (This was before the hexblade was an option, and I used the Pact of the Undying as the baseline as I am a huge fan of its flavour, even if its mechanics are lacking). Depending on how high I...

It's deliberate. The immunities to lightning and thunder bumps up the effective HP to 345 (though without them the resistances bump the HP to only 288, and I'm thinking they used the 288 because of how specific the damage immunities are), while having 4 saving throws bumps the effective AC to...

I recall Chris Perkins talking about another subplot that got cut involving the Mind Flayers running an asylum to cultivate the brains of those who went mad during the Rage of Demons. I'm not sure if I imagined that, but if I didn't, I'm kind of glad it was cut.

I'll leave it at 16 or bump it to 18, but I'm in no rush to max out. The CR math of 5e seems to assume you start at 14 and end at 18 in order to keep your to hit at about needing a 9 average. So as long as you eventually get an 18 (usually by level 8), you should be on the curve the game provides.