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Aye. Same with EB and probably a few others like guidance. IMO spells and spell casting is a bloated and dated pillar that needs to go on a diet.

Now I'm going make vecna have a weakness to in game pop culture references giving him disadvantage on attack rolls. An immortal time traveling lich weakly begging the rogue to stop singing the contemporary elvish folk metal cover of the bard's latest hit "I got 99 problems but a lich ain't one".

I'll stop being lazy and finish it lol. It's not meant to seen as a threat but a mockery of basic design philosophies and concepts being treated as some form of deep conspiracy rather than stuff that is called out within the first few pages of every book that is printed that is just short of...

Look at this way. What are the actual limits for any game that uses a DM/GM as the final step as far as introducing content in a game goes? NPC blocks are nothing more than fancy templated or quick n dirty options if you need something in a crunch.

It always has been that way and is noticable once you have a forced change of perspective.

Just went through all my homebrewed content (40 different campaigns in 11 settings) and I only found one actual dragon so I guess that is one I exclude lol. Why did I buy fizban...oh the elder brain dragon that's right....

Depends on the flavor and overall PC concept for me. Haste is probably the most powerful one but clashes with anything going for a cool and collected feel.

resists urge to make 4 artificers to reenact the climax of Ghostbusters 2

Not bad for a pre god version. Giving him his preferred pick of minor/major features on his book of darkness and you could crank him up. Good thing he has a uncounterable CS on tap that also punishes the target. I'd be hard pressed to see this working.

Hmm I'm a firm believer in staying away from the kitchen sink mentality when slapping content together so it's not really about what I exclude as much as include in a given setting.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the opportunity for the party to retrieve an item or deliver something to somewhere or someone. the tricky part is to make sure that you properly motivate the players as much as the characters when you do so. Do the fact that players have different...

I personally redid the entire hell portion to focus on belief that the balance needs to be maintained for the fate of the know planes. So it's a shift form a series of fetch chains into a game of complex deal making and breaking to just keep the war going. Added in some major players like...

The bones and setting of DiA is good but it's hard to publish any material that spurs growth in PCs without a heavy hand from the DM.

I've always been one to support independent material for systems and I tend to buy, or gifted, most of the core stuff. Only big portion of 5e "official" publishing I don't own is the CR stuff. I'm also probably an outlier because I buy a core book once or twice a month to donate to clubs or...

Skill vs ability check is sort of is an important distinction in fifth edition rather than some unnecessary semantic distraction. If you played 2E it's probably the closest parallel. 5e doesn't have a ton of super specific writing that you need to be careful with but this is one of them...

Could just use the thrown weapons style in place of duelist and avoid the whole issue.

Yep. Grab alert.