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I really feel like we are sorely missing the "two thirds" caster concept from 3.PF-- the Bard/Magus progression between the Paladin/Ranger and the full casters. I wanted the 3.5 Warmage to be more like the PF Magus, and vice versa. My crack at a 5e version would be d8 HD, sort of...

Not to mention that the system in question-- the 3.PF1 branch of D&D-- is still in active development with a fanbase other game communities would kill for. There's a thriving third-party ecosystem and a new (third!) company stepping forward to assume the mantle of "first party". If that's...

Huge, huge fan. My first failed attempt to break into the industry was as a second-party developer for ICE. My tastes have changed and I'm less attracted to that level of crunch... but I'll always have a warm place in my heart for RMFRP, Privateers, and every flavor of HARP.

I think D&D calls for too many checks. A person can jump a certain distance on a 10, but it's highly unrealistic and highly unsatisfactory for someone to ever roll a 9 or 11. (For example.) As a multiply-disabled, uneducated and untrained noncombatant, I expect that characters meant to represent...

I prefer antagonists to villains, and I sprinkle potential antagonists throughout my world and invite my players to choose which ones to hate. Vicious, cruel orc tribes can be allies or enemies. Hobgoblin slavers working for human mercantile companies, the Elven Imperial Navy, ancient undead...

I like the 5e Bard as-is, so my changes would be pretty minor: Magical Secrets earlier and more often, more Colleges in core, etc. For my own work, the Bard is the class that has the best non-spell buffing abilities as well as the best capacity for blending different sources of power. (All...

Personally, I wish that 1st level D&,D characters were a lot more broadly competent-- I am not a 12th level fighter-- and higher level D&D characters were less vertically, supernaturally, powerful until the game starts assuming the corresponding degrees of secular/divine authority.

I agree that racial ASIs weren't good for the game and I'm glad they're gone. But I also don't agree that every race should be viable (or possible) in the first place, as a matter of making it clear that they are all different from humans and from each other.

Ideally, I would replace Wizard and Cleric entirely with much narrower classes. Like the old 3.5 class tier system, I would replace all of the Tier 1/2 casters with a larger variety of Tier 3 spellcasters with more Bard-like features for poaching off of other lists. Like... 3.5 Warmage gets...

The argument is that it is real-life racist for characters to get a bonus to INT for being an Elf or an INT penalty for being an Orc, or a WIS bonus for being a Dwarf or a WIS penalty for being a Gnome. I don't really accept this argument either, but it does cause gameplay/narrative problems...

What ASIs do I get for growing up in hospitals and baby jails, compared to the kids with rich parents who loved them?

You and WotC have replaced the "biological" essentialism.of fictional fantasy beings with classism based on the social classes that have always existed in human society and still exist today. Congratulations, I feel much more included now.

My plan is functionally identical to @doctorbadwolf in the OP-- I'd split the teams into Classic, Advanced (including PO), 3.PF1 (minus Paizo's PI), 4e, and 5e-- but I would assign ownership to the top 200 D&D content creators, including Critical Role and Dropout, Larian and Owlcat, Paizo and...

I've got some axes I've been grinding for a long time about elements of TSR D&D that I think WotC/Paizo D&D sorely lacks, but to spare this thread those arguments I'll stick to things that are basically within 5e's design philosophy. I agree 💯 with @the Jester about lowering hit points, and...

I have my issues with the worldbuilding and implied worldbuilding of D&D and its faux polytheism. In my current homebrew project, I'm breaking it up more or less by creature type: angels have Acolytes (and Holy Knights); genies, dragons, and elementals have Sorcerers (think Wu Jen/Shugenja...

I have put a lot of thought into Gestalt games where one "side" of everyone's progression is locked to a single class or a tight family of classes. But I've never actually run one.

Erryone needs more Honey Badger in their life.

besh-mee. I was going through a loglan phase when I started getting back into older D&D editions.

We already got the movie where Peter Parker was played by Tom Holland, and Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire. Now I want the movie where Tom Holland plays Peter Parker, and Ben Reilly, and Kaine, and Jessica Drew. And the only actor I want to see as Wolverine in the MCU is Dafne Keen.

Not the least? If I listed my Top 5 favorite tabletop roleplaying games, "D&D" would be four of them. But there are other games, other games I like, and other games I want to play. I could give up "D&D" and still game fervently for the rest of my life-- I just don't gave any reason to do that.