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I'm suggesting the use of medium armor instead of heavy armor in this instance. As a Paladin, the character would be proficient in it and it'd be thematically/conceptually more appropriate.

This sounds about right. What classes/races/options are and aren't available needs to feel like it serves some higher theme/goal that players can buy into than "I have a mostly personal issue with X/Y/Z." I have a homebrew in which Elves/Dwarves/Gnomes/Halflings/Orcs/Goblinoids are notably...

It's only an average of about +1 damage, and I doubt people would have complained as much about Elves, Halflings, and Dwarves recieving a +1 bonus to damage rolls when using their races' favored weapons. Or maybe they would. People make a big hullabaloo over +/- 1's in D&D considering how...

Breastplate doesn't confer any penalty on stealth and was a very common among cultures in warmer climates (Egyptians, Greeks, Persians, Macedonians, Indians etc). It's only 1-2 less AC than Splint/Plate.

Since nobody really cried foul when Dark Sun killed off all the Gnomes and did away with Paladins, I would say no.

That's very much the intention, at least when it comes to Elves and Dwarves. It helps push them towards weapons that their people are known to favor above all others by making them more attractive than other weapons that- while usually superior mechanically- aren't commonly used by Elves/Dwarves.

I think that currently being on the outs (or ambivilent) regarding your patron is implied the default way to play the Warlock so as to cut down on the amount of inter-party conflict that would come from having a player being on friendlier terms with fiends and lovecraftian horrors and summoning...

I don't care much for the usual D&D cosmology, but I do use some of the planar locations, effects, player options, items, and monsters for my own campaigns where the cosmology is much smaller in scope and places like Genies and the city of Brass, Deities and their seven heavens, and fairie...

I think because they want to downplay the closeness of the relationship between the Warlock and their patron as opposed to the Cleric and their deity. The default flavor of the Warlock seems to be that although you got your powers by associating with fiends/lovecraftian horrors/fair folk, that...

Not to mention that if the book explicitly defines itself and says what is/sin't default, it goes a long way in telling people whether or not they want to play in a game that uses that setting. People who want Gnomes are likely to get way more out of Eberron, which takes them seriously and...

I consider Planar Ally to be your standard "summoning things from beyond" spell and I treat it as such. Which creatures can be summoned, how they react, and what they're willing to do all vary greatly on the setting and the nature of all parties involved. For the most part, the entity that gets...

That's more of a general D&D thing than a 5e thing. Even back when the only classes were Fighting-man, Ranger, Paladin, Magic-user, Illusionist, Cleric, Druid, Monk, Thief, and Bard, you were still only looking at 3x classes that couldn't cast spells and only 2x explicitly non-magical classes.

I really like the Noble class and how it provides options for both the warrior-style support character as well as the more pacifist "lazy-lord" style ones. Could it use some tweaks? Sure, but I don't know a single class (including my own homebrewed ones) that I wouldn't tweak. That and I...

Mage Armor would require expending a spell slot and has a finite duration. Also, I suggested the Wisdom bonus to AC as a solution for the armor-less Cleric/Priest as someone pointed out that subclasses don't generally remove base class abilities.

Give them the ability to add their Wisdom bonus to AC when unarmored.

I can understand not wanting to put out a lot of subclasses and rely on feats to differentiate characters within a class, but if that was the plan, then why did they go with subclasses as such an important character defining characters within a class and make feats optional? The options in the...

Yeah, I'm just not a big enough fan to put up with those wonky tiny sized mechanics.

Subclasses I'm waiting for... Barbarian- Whirling Dervish and one that actually lets you transform like a lycantrhope Bard- A Divine inspired Bard Cleric- Elemental domains, Charm/Beauty Domain, and a Travel domain Druid- Swarm/Vermin circle and possibly one that grants an animal companion...

Getting a 5% chance to roll a random effect on a table that is just as likely to hurt you as help you whenever you cast a spell is not really a strength in this case. Many people hate the randomness of the mechanic and dislike the potentially silly effects it can generate. Dropping it is not...

It should be noted that the Wild Magic roll table is optional. Just talk to the DM. "Immediately after you cast a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher, the DM can have you roll a d20. If you roll a1, roll on the Wild Magic Surge table to create a random magical effect."