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Or, in the case of the School of Evocation's Potent Cantrips ability, it makes Conjuration spells more potent.

I know you were trying to craft a hypothetical designed to support your point about the implausibility of non-human Eastern PCs, but you instead created a bunch of cool adventure hooks and fun background ideas.

I don't get why this is still being bandied about. Neither censorship nor soft-censorship are in play here. Feedback was given to WOTC. WOTC said "Ahh yeah, that makes sense." WOTC made a minor tweak to a paragraph reflective of their newfound understanding. They're still expressing the same...

Allow the caster to attack three adjacent foes within five feet with a single attack action, perhaps?

I houseruled it so that you only get advantage to hit targets that can't see you as long as you can see them. This way, two blinded foes will attack each other with disadvantage instead of normally. It is a super simple fix.

Ugh is three characters, right?

Yet again, this weirdly formalist argument of yours is flimsy. It is little more than sticking to your guns for its own sake. It also relies on the implausible fantasy that there is some qabal of people out there that forced WOTC to make this change. It is like saying, "I would staunchly oppose...

In my campaign, the "One Must Die" chanting at the Death House ended up becoming a recurring theme. At one point, Strahd had surprised the party by setting up a tea table and umbrella in the road intersection south of Krezk. There, he wove the phrase "One must die" into conversation as a signal...

Not really. You're describing a paradoxical, zero-sum situation where, no matter what WOTC chose to do, WOTC buckled under the pressure of one group or another. It's nonsensical. Personally, I think your claims of boosting "artistic integrity" and avoiding "self inflicted censorship" (!?) are...

I get that. Hermaphrodite as applied to the intersex community is reductionist and inaccurate. Hermaphrodite as applied to the god of the elves fits fairly well. On the other hand, while the term does not have the well-developed pejorative malus of a word like "tranny," it is still used and...

As opposed to being an improved version of Mirror Image, this seems much more like an improved version of the Trickery Cleric's capstone Improved Duplicity. Take a peek at that ability and make sure you're not stepping on any toes.

Instead of a patron revoking a PC warlock's boon by cutting off their power, I'd instead have the patron attempt to revoke the PC warlock's boon with extreme prejudice. In other words, I'd have the patron's goons come to try to kill the warlock. That way, you get to have an adventure. It worked...

I'm really not sure that letting a player start a PC as a level one quasi-lich aberration is a good idea, even if its stat block was gutted and replaced with copy-pastes from other PHB races.

I used the Deck of Many things in my Curse of Strahd campaign. Strahd himself gifted the party the deck as a way to torment them. Most of the results were changed slightly in order to better conform with the theme and plot of the adventure. For the Rogue, the enmity is always borne by Van...

In my CoS campaign, I've done a lot to implement the PCs backstories into the game. In the group, there's a former wizard's apprentice that narrowly avoid being a demon sacrifice, a sorceress whose dragon mentor was slain by adventurers, a cleric who's on the lam after murdering a prominent...

Oh, I think it is a mistake to create a class archetype that takes away abilities from the base class. I also do not like turning a roleplay foible/flaw into an actual class weakness. In my perspective, these two are poor design choices.

I think giving the Kensai a single weapon proficiency or limiting the ability to use Kensei powers with a single type of weapon is a blunder. I would prefer something similar to requiring something similar to an Eldritch Blade's weapon bond instead: you can bond with one weapon per short rest...

One of my PCs became a revenant after he was killed during the Death House adventure (another slain PC was temporarily possessed by Rose, but I digress). I did not use the actual UA rules for revenants, and instead made it almost exclusively role play. He had sunken eyes and pale skin, and the...

For my table, "Called Shots" are merely when a PC does a massive amount of damage with a single hit. In other words, it is just an abstraction for when PC's land an especially telling blow. I'll say, "you lock your aim dead-center of the orc's unibrow, and the arrow strikes true."

The question you must ask yourself is as follows: "Did the guards let their guard down?" Unless the Barbarian is trying to be discrete or the guards are distracted, I do not think drawing your weapon and stabbing someone while in plain view of everyone will result in a surprise round.