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This wouldn't be a bad idea... Anyways, if 5E is going to be modular and flexible, then it doesn't need to obey the idea that low level play is gritty play and high level play is superheroic play. That approach is full of all kinds of well known flaws, such as forcing people who want to play...

I'll disagree with a few aspects of this. I don't see the PHB inclusion of things like tieflings, half-orcs, or dragonborn as "turning D&D into a different game." After all, such races have been in D&D for most of its length, in some form or another. It is not changing it into something else so...

If this is true, isn't the main reason for it because those are the list of races from the D&D PHB? It is the kind of thing where the designers decisions over which races to include has affected many home campaigns, which has in turn affected many people's idea of what default fantasy is. It is...

Not really... My intro to D&D was with some random really late 2E boxed set called the "Adventure Set" (a rather decent intro to the game, THAC0 aside) that nobody ever seems to have heard of. A few months after I bought it, I got the newly released first print run 3E PHB. I think both products...

Yeah, tieflings or half-orcs don't even come close to my bar for weird or strange. Once you encounter a race of creatures which are best described as "the dead souls of human sinners stuffed into penguin suits that say 'd00d' all the time and are forced to serve as cheap labor for lazy demons,"...

You make a few good points, Morrus, but I do think that some compromise is possible. Or rather, I think there is a way to do both. The big key to that, I think, is to not make an equal amount of differentiation between all races. Some races are similar, and others are very different. It is very...

This certainly would work well. The whole double bonus/penalty thing for size differences is just redundant and hurts the game. At the same time, it is better for game balance and variety to do things this way, rather than through giving big creatures innately higher strength and small creatures...

Heh, you're going to need to try a lot harder than this. :) The first two are nothing more than random opinion blogs that don't even make a good argument. I'm not sure the first even addresses the issue. The third is just taking a quote out of context. Yes, there is no doubt that WotC looked at...

I'm not variant, but I have played a few MMOs, including World of Warcraft, and I don't really see the resemblance. There really are not that many mechanics that are distinct to 4E that are seen in any MMO. I'v never heard of an MMO with anything like marking, healing surges, the standardized...

Can't we contain all of these "variant has a strong opinion on racial options" posts to one thread? This is getting a bit much... More to the point... I just dislike Aasimar and Tieflings. Much like Shifters, they're just a terrible way of diluting a decent racial concept (like playable...

A fairly new re-imagination? Huh? I don't know about older editions, but it is the main idea for both 3E and 4E, so it is way past being a "new" idea at this point. And, well, I don't very well see the point of a "barbarian" class that doesn't even have a rage mechanic. "Barbarian" is just a...

The classic example of this being the liger, a possible offspring of a tiger and a lion that is significantly larger than either parent could possibly be. Generally, I'm not a fan of half-races myself... I prefer either races where a halfblooded race takes all the traits of one parent, or...

It would be kind of hard to play something like, say, a werewolf, dragon, or angel in D&D without any racial game mechanics and expect the game to work. In its own way, previous editions of the game have too many assumptions for you to get away with that. Generally, the rules assume that, unless...

I'm not really a fan of dragon's using magic as sorcerers. I like the idea of dragons as creatures who use magic, but not as spellcasters. The distinction between magic and spells is very important for them. Various special powers that are distinctly magical in power are appropriate, but the...

What? Why? Somewhat awkward name aside, the Barbarian is a fairly distinct concept both in terms of story archetype and in terms of game mechanics. It's a berserker, the class for the poorly equipped tribal warrior who flies into a murderous rage that drives his power beyond normal human...

Really, trying to make clear distinctions between any different kind of non-magical class is a pain. Actually, distinguishing between magical classes can also be a pain, though perhaps a different sort of one... Still, I think Rangers and Fighters can be made distinct enough, so long as you try...

Well, to be honest, I could say just as much that D&D could be served well by moving past the likes of Moorcock, Howard, and Vance. ;) I'd like to see D&D move more into the realm of fantasy that I'm familiar with from tons of videogames. I mean, look at one of the games I'm playing right now...

I'd rather just see a full-scale Giant race. Forget about dialing back the size to make it more humanlike, let the players have a twelve to twenty foot tall giant on the team.

I'd be really annoyed by a PHB that was limited down to the Tolkien races... I don't even like Halflings very much outside of Tolkien's works (well, except for Eberron halflings, they're fine). I don't really want a torrent of half-hearted stuff like tieflings (much rather see playable demons)...

I'm sorry, but you're still confusing me... What do you mean by "accommodating both playstyles" here? I'm not trying to reconcile different playstyles. I'm trying to create a system where there is between instant death and non-instant death, regardless of the game's desired lethality (which I...