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I think the paunch makes you think he's got a paunch on him.

Sometimes taking things away from a setting just gives you McDonald's, but with a broken ice cream machine.

Every game is political, if you're really looking closely. Humans are people with a society worth protecting, and adventurers steal from other peoples who are seen as less than human. An invading empire is authoritarian and the PCs are freedom fighters killing their troops in order to push...

I feel like the idea of 2 summons + spamming cantrips would be pretty helpful in combat. I was also imagining haste + polymorph into a giant ape for 3 hefty attacks per round. With mage armor up and the +2 AC from haste, you'd have an AC 17 too, making it less likely that you'll have to make...

A familiar can't attack but can take actions normally. Arcane Abeyance only requires that a creature be able to use an action to activate it.

For the sake of argument, imagine that you're a level 11 chronurgist wizard with the Arcane Abeyance class feature and a familiar that can activate + concentrate on a 4th level spell of your choice while you concentrate on your own. What 2 concentration spells you run concurrently? BONUS...

I've made more characters than I can count in 5e and I've always used the custom background option. Making that the default really feels, IMO, like the developers catching up with how the game is played, much like the floating ability score modifiers. The people that I play with usually swap...

This post represents, IMO, the purest essence of table top RPGs. This all is a feature (if not the soul) of TTRPGs.

The first character I ever played was in 2e and was reflavored. It's strange finally discovering in 2022 that the way the game has always worked is "horrible."

I'm fine with level requirements but feat chains fly directly in the face of a system where you're intended to get very few feats. I've mentioned it in other threads but I think the best way to handle this is to make complimentary feats that don't lock you into a feat ladder. Get access to...

I mean, this is how 5e has always been. Right there in the PHB, the high elf just picks a cantrip and the tiefling's stuff is just spells from the the spell list. The Oracle and Evoker have the same spells and might even have the exact same loadout as the Dragon Bloodline Sorc, even though...

Man, if I had my way, a ton of things that are just spells from the master spell list in 5e would be features of specific classes and races. Instead of a Necromancer just being a Wizard with the same spells as the Evoker and the Oracle, half of it would be actually necromancy-based features...

This reminds me of how dumb I felt the BAB system was in 3e. The monk's whole deal was hitting with fists, but any guy with full BAB was more likely to land a punch.

I feel like the ideal way to do this is to have higher level feats synergize with lower specific level feats but not actually be part of a tree or require them as prerequisites. The tavern brawler might give you an unarmed strike and then a different 4th level feat might let you perform stunts...

I really don't like ardlings. Anthro races are great but the thing is that each one actually gets unique stuff associated with an animal - tortle with its shell, tabaxi with its cheeta run, loxodon with its trunk, et al. Ardlings poach the furry aesthetic without any of the actual animal stuff...

I've been saying for awhile that they need to have different senses to make races more special. Infravision that lets you see heat, darkvision that lets you see in the dark, echolocation, persistent tremorsense, blindsight, et al. Just, for Pelor's sake, stop handing out darkvision like candy.

I absolutely agree that the movement is better than ever but I have to say that 4e takes the cake when it comes to team mechanics. Your defenders actually did unique things to protect other PCs each round and leaders could boost other people as a minor action for short term buffs each turn. The...

As a player, I like making strong builds but part of the fun is doing it with the default rules. Changing the rules in order to min/max my build would feel a bit like cheating, to me. As a DM, I'd be wary of doing this swap for a player because +5 damage to 4 eldritch blasts per turn is going...

This survey still gives me the impression that when they're asking about my first book and boxed set purchases, they're trying to ask me about WotC 5e purchases but I'm actually telling them about my first 2e purchases because of the way the questions are worded. I feel like these surveys still...