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The winter ranger is insanely cool. Definitely up there with my favorite 5e classes of all time. It absolutely oozes theme. I hope in the future they keep down this route for ranger subclasses, using different environments as a base. We have gloomstalker as an underdark ranger, but a volcano...

Watch them get retconned into being either humans or elves. Edit: Seems that they've actually been turned into their own species. I wonder if Jhor'guntaal will get the same treatment, at least in the lore.

It feels weird that they're changing all these creature types, while not changing aasimar and tieflings to celestials and fiends. Then again, I suspect they might keep all player species as humanoids, while giving the exact same NPC species other creature types.

Or, y'know, acknowledge that some groups have more than 4 players in their party... If you're running a 7 player game, then a boss monster of matching CR to their level is going to get absolutely stomped.

I feel a lot of the issue with species ASI's isn't the with there being a problem with the concept itself, but rather 5e's bounded accuracy and minimum expectations of starting primary stats. It essentially resulted in your character not being functional if you chose the 'wrong' species for the...

Switching to species absolutely makes sense, but I feel it's like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. It's quite clear that a huge proportion of the community (and even many official WotC staff themselves) views them like irl human ethnicities rather than unique species, and...

To me, it's not that thunder gauntlets or the flail are great or not. They are. But if I want an armourer with wrist blades rather than thunder gauntlets, I just can't, unless I give up half my subclass abilities. As for switching armour model on the fly, I'm happy it can't do that. If I'm...

Which doesn't let you pick your own weapon. It's thunder gauntlets or flail.

Wish there was an alternative battlesmith option, where you didn't have to lug Preston the robodog around with you. Not everyone wants their gish to be a pet class.

It would be really nice if Artificer got a selection of unique spells. Not having them is a large part of the reason for the class feeling tacked on.

We've all agreed to call it 7e right? I refuse to call it DnD Edition-X.

Lack of classes is the thing I dislike the most. Pathfinder 2e has all sorts of fun things like the Magus, Kineticist, and more. While in DnD, you have subclasses which don't provide nearly the variety of play. Battlemaster and purple dragon knight don't come close to warlord for a support...

As my introduction to the DnD community was via Warhammer Fantasy, I spent years thinking that the drow were extremely pale skinned Dark Elves, just like their warhammer depiction. Needless to say I was very confused when people started calling them problematic.

Another one which bugs me is making reptile sapients always have wide hips and boobs. Just to make them 'hot'.

I swear it's normally the opposite. Tons of media has the males of a species as monstrous looking, while the females are just recoloured humans. WoW is particularly bad for this.

I like the idea that dwarves will season their food with things which are poisonous to other species. Due to their innate resistance.

My favorite depiction of sapient species with vastly different ways of thinking and interacting with the world is a piece of work called Serina. It has interesting twists like some sapients only being able to learn for their first year of life, or not being able to exist with others of their...

I'm glad we've moved past always evil orcs, but I'm worried that it's swung the other way. Everyone is mentally identical to humans, rather than having species which think and act in an entirely different way. Even in suggesting that other sapients should think differently to humans has been...

I understand (but don't agree with) the argument that half-orcs are no longer needed as orcs are regular PHB playables now. But I really dislike that full orcs have been made to look like grey skinned humans with pointed ears in the new art. Along with losing their powerful build mechanically...

(Also another one which I really hate is stiletto heels I see given to so many women in fantasy). You take one step off a smooth hard floor and you're sinking straight into the ground. And god forbid there is a cobblestone road...