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Paladin and Bard. Although I guess you could just rewrite those classes, replacing their spells with spell-like abilities, without changing anything about what they can actually do. It’s mostly a question of wording, in my opinion. Now Rangers are something else. I have no idea what a Ranger...

That's true, but paladins are kinda crusaders as well, which blurs the lines.

The D&D cleric, this armor-wearing, healing-spells-casting soldier of God(s) is, as far as I'm concerned, one of those weird, idiosyncratic D&D concepts that doesn't really have any equivalent in real life or in fiction, which is why balancing it, rewriting it or expanding it seems to be so awkward.

If comic books are any indication, there are two ways to relaunch an ongoing story, so that it feels new, that it feels important and that it may attract new fans: one is "Everything changes!", the other one is "Back to basics." When you relaunch a setting, you don't want to give the impression...

I once had the idea of a world where classic D&D dungeons, with all their illogical weirdness, started appearing everywhere and no one knew why. That way, I had a Lost-like mystery on top of an old-fashioned monster hunt.

Mashup settings is a great idea. Planejammer, as you describe it, would be really cool. Also: Dragon Sun and Greyright.

5. BECMI D&D's "Creature Catalogue" 4. Necromancer Games' "Tome of Horrors" 3. D&D 5e's "Monster Manual" 2. Iron Kingdom's "Monsternomicon" 1. D&D 4e's "Monster Manual"

Ultimately, it's a game and it's a story, and sometimes you have to fudge one to focus on the other, and vice versa.

I can testify that a stirge is the very first monster I encountered as a player, 35 years ago.

What happened?

Split up the party as often as you can and for as long as you can. Most of your plots should be based on the minutiae of the cultural background of your homebrew campaign. Your players will catch up. Playing pop music during the game makes the whole thing much more fun for everyone.

Of course. I recommand watching videos of the "One Man Lord of the Rings" show to see how easy it can be to make different characters as distinctive as possible. That being said, unless you're really talented, accents are annoying.

Players love it when NPCs have long conversations with each other. Make sure that at least two of the major NPCs in your campaign have very similar-sounding names. Remembering who's who is fun! Make sure that every NPC speaks with an accent.

That's true, but D&D doesn't take place in the european Middle Ages.

No, it was not the "editorial we." I meant "we" as in "on this forum."

Mystara/the Know World is still the best "vanilla" setting, in my opinion. That being said, one could open their Gazetteers and start a 5e campaign right now without needing anything else.

With apologies to you, we get that kind of reaction every time an artist dares to stray away from D&D's usual painterly academic style.

There's a character in the TV series "The Leftovers" called Matt Jamison which, in my opinion, is a good inspiration for a complex take on the Paladin. He is a righteous, well-meaning priest who tries hard to live by the moral tenets of his religion but does it in the most wrongheaded...

I don't see the appeal. It doesn't seem to bring much to the table.

I've decided to stop worrying about WotC's release schedule. I'll just skip 2015 entirely and come back in 2016 to see if there's anything interesting on the horizon.