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Why can't Dwarves live in the Underdark? That's often where they, along with endless tunnels and caverns, can be found.

What if all classes EXCEPT the warrior-types risked critical fumbles on attack rolls? They dont spend nearly as much time swinging around weapons as a Fighter or Paladin so when they roll a 1, they don't just miss, they perform the kind of errors the less trained are prone to make.

Not very common. Only common for Storm Sorcerers who choose to learn/cast Comprehend Languages and specifically choose to move 10 feet as a result. The movement is not mandatory. It's only possible if one chooses it. That the Draconic origin causes you to grow scales and the Wild Magic...

Yes, it's a funny corner case rules interaction, but the player doesn't have to take it. The player id the one making the meta decision to have a STORM Sorcerer know and cast Comprehend Languages in the first place. Presumably for meta reasons. Cast some more thematically appropriate...

I've liked Psionics in certain contexts: Dark Sun, and even Eberron, wher they make efforts to integrate them into the setting. I've always disliked how divorced they were from the rest of the core game in other supplements, though. 4e went a long way in making Psionics seem as legitimate as the...

Because D&D isn't based so much on real history as much as it's based on stories and other fictional tales and the tropes upon which those tales are built. Heroes use daggers, swords, and bows and only poor/primitive people use slings and spears. So they try to design the weapons to make them...

My homebrew is set pretty early in the world's history so the number of mortals with pc classes in the double digits is about a dozen or so. One of them is worshipped as a reincarnated goddess-queen as she's the only NPC in the setting with access to the Raise Dead spell and even she has some...

You have to D&D-ify it. Just as in D&D, they do away with most of the intricacies of European fuedal/social systems and transform what were immortal and capricious fairfolk into much more relatable dwarves/elves/goblin races we're now familiar with, so too would a Japanese setting have to...

No matter the source of the phenomena, it's persistent enough to have survived multiple attempts to eradicate it and has proven influential enough to have played a big part of 5e's design philosophy. Not surprised that people would request more of it as an alternative.

I don't think it's a case of players being dumb. But we can't act like there isn't a phenomena wherein newer players are offered a Fighter or Rogue as their first character or suggested to hold off on selecting a spellcaster until they have a firmer grasp on the rules. I think OP is...

D&D has always needed a simple "Mage" class designed along the lines of the 3e Warlock. Basically an at-will blast that scales with level, and a small selection of additional supernatural powers explained in plain language. Something that doesn't require the player to have to browse through...

So why is music so much of what makes a Bard what it is to the point where changing/downplaying that flavor leads people to feel it' s effectively destroying/replacing the class?

Why do Bards get automatic proficiency with three instruments and the ability to use them as foci, then? Sounds like a waste. They should change those features since nobody uses them.

Again, speaking from how I manage to retroactively justify and portray things in my own campaign... A Cleric gets their power directly from the deity/faith structure by legitimately proving to the deity or the faith that they're somehow worthy of it. The Cleric is a sanctioned wielder of...

Clerics can represent the traditions revolving around ancestral/heroic spirits: the Scholar, the Warrior, the Trickster, etc. Meanwhle, the Druid can be the tradition that revolves around the wilder spirits of nature. In my own homebrew, Druids represent the original priests, who venerated...

If the guy at the top were in the middle of a fight and playing his harp while singing shirtless, I would find him to be the silly one. At the moment, he's just sitting there. Both the Elf and Dwarf in the second picture look rather serious. I'm assuming the Elven Bard left his instrument...

Just wanted to point out that if you look in the PHB and DMG, you actually won't find many pointy hat Wizards waving sticks around. If you do, it'll be a rarity. But every Bard is smiling/smirking and all but one is carrying an instrument, and every single actual instrument is a lute/guitar...

This assumes that D&D is the only game they've ever played and all their exposure to media comes from D&D. I had home brewed stuff similar to the Warlord in concept even back in 3e, before the Marshal has come out. I wanted a nonmagic guy that could help without being a beater like the...

I've always liked Wisdom with magic as I consider it more a matter of understanding mysteries than simple book learning. Some spellcasters may lean more towards Intelligence or Charisma in other aspects, but their supernatural prowess comes from profound understanding that cannot simply be read...