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Heck, let's just try writing down an House Rule, and see what ya'll think. Two-Weapon Fighting When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you’re holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you’re holding in...

I wouldn't call myself a fan of heavy simulationism, or of "realism", but I like when game mechanics have their own orderly place. Right now, sword & board is defense, two hander is offense, and dual wielding is...another offensive style but with weird caveats? And somewhat defensive with the...

Dual wielding. It’s not the greatest 5e combat style, but it clearly does have its niches, as is (rogues, for instance). But everywhere I read that, historically, two weapon fighting wasn’t really useful. It generally wasn’t worth giving the defense of a shield (especially vs missiles) or the...

Currently in the process of doing other people’s taxes, so I guess I’m the rogue!

I think such a spell would alter the balance of the game irreparably, especially since it would be available at a relatively low level. Suddenly, adventure designers would have to keep in mind that optimized parties have effectively double the daily resources of unoptimized ones. It would be...

Really? That’s weird to me. WotC even went through the trouble of updating each O4e class when Essentials came out, to adapt them to the new format. Even giving them new names to better distinguish them. If people thought that playing essentials alongside O4e was too much, then 5.5 really...

I’d argue that the 4.5 (essentials) half edition was handled well and was actually backwards compatible. Yes, if you wanted to keep using your original PHB after the Rules Compendium was released, you had to print out about 30 pages of errata. Clunky, yes, but you had that option, and errata is...

Revert Leomund’s tiny hut to its previous edition self: an handy way to shelter yourself from the elements, NOT an unbreakable fortress. All (or the most powerful) of control spells should have an hp threshold, kinda like sleep or the power words. If a target’s hp are above the spell’s...

About design space…imma just leave a link to this old thread of mine. I still believe in what I said in the OP.

You know, if the Druid was suddenly turned into a half caster, with specific subclasses granting full casting and others granting crazy awesome stuff, I’d be very happy.

Looking at those unreal engine graphics, I’m a bit worried about the system requirements. Not everyone at the table might have a gaming machine, and sometimes you’ll have people with wildly different hardware, from NASA rigs to glorified toasters.

I have a very simple complaint. The original post is way too long. I read two or three paragraphs, thought wow, this is a very long post, and realized scrolling down that I was about 1/20 of the way in. If you expect your players to engage in your interesting world building idea, I think you...

Oh, thank you. Didn’t have time to read the entire packet yet. That’s a good call, IMO.

First thing I’d do if a player decided to question my authority as a GM, would be reminding everyone that if they want me to cater to their whims perfectly, they must pay me 😄 Never came up though.

I think opening subclasses like that would be a fine house rule, or even a good official variant, but I wouldn’t want it to be the default.

I’m squarely in the meh camp. I’ve been bored with 5e’s defects and stagnant evolution for a good while now. So far, the playtest has showed me some minor tweaks that I agree with, and some less minor tweaks I don’t like (I hate their take on stealth and grappling, for example). I’ll keep a...

Let’s not focus on the exact number of thp right now, that can be adjusted. Let us focus on the proposed concept instead: the Moon Druid can spend a spell slot to gain a substantial, scaling amount of thp. The intent is to give the moon Druid plenty of toughness, if they pay a spellcasting...

I didn’t read the whole thread, so excuse me if I’m repeating something that was already said. The 5e moon Druid needed a fix, and standard wild shape templates can fix both their excessive toughness layered on top of a full spellcasting class, and the excessive complexity of players using...

We could call it the Sneaking condition. While Sneaking, your speed is halved, and any creature whose Passive Perception is lower or equal to your Dex (Stealth) check cannot perceive you, as long as you have any sort of cover or concealment impairing their senses. Yes, bring back Passive...

Yeah. Everything that is like "Let's have a debate on this one topic, but you're all forbidden from saying or arguing in favor of X,Y, and Z" should probably by a violation of the rules.