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The only subclass I can think of that "doesn't work" is underpowered under the new rules: the Hexblade warlock, since the signature feature is now folded into Pact of the Blade. (Although that one's still an interesting pick because it gives proficiency with both medium armor and shields...

In my experience, there are three main reasons people multiclass: 1. career change 2. dip 3. hybrid A career change is when during the character's journey they find they want to follow a different path than the one they started with. When based mostly on rp this usually means a major shift in...

2014 rules: Prepare spells as though each class was entirely separate. As a 9th level arcane trickster, you know 3 cantrips and 6 leveled spells, which must be 1st or 2nd level, and 4 of those must be enchantment or illusion spells. The other two can be any school. Note that you can't change...

If I recall correctly, they made them for pretty much every race. Geasi are just the ones I had handy and met the "can be expanded to other races" aspect of OP's question better than the dragonborn ones, at least of the ones I could recall offhand. Most of the other racial ones in the FRPG...

I'd say around one permanent magic item per player every three to four levels, with almost all games fitting into the 2-5 range. Consumables tend to be more like "you have about five" after level 5 or so, with more only showing up if people actually use the ones they have. I think using them...

4e Genasi had several Paragon Paths for different kinds of elemental magic - and though written for genasi in particular, the could be adapted fairly easily to any elemental-themed character. From the 4e FR Players' Guide: Elemental Tempest (for multi-element genasi), Whirlwind Genasi, and...

I voted 5e because in most games it's got the 'best' alignment system by being the easiest to ignore. But one can run an interesting campaign where alignment plays a key, core part of the game/story, and in that case I'd want one that's both relatively clear and not 100% tied to behavior -...

I don’t think most impulses to limit cantrips are really about balance. It’s just that some people don’t like it when magic is casual, but they acknowledge that removing cantrips entirely would be a balance issue. So they’re looking for a way to make even mage hand feel like a big-ish deal...

With multiclassing: celestial dragon warrior build: This is based around the fact that Greenflame blade would trigger both a dragon sorcerer's Elemental Affinity and a Celestial Warlock's Radiant Soul feature - which, if combined with a 2024 pact of the blade would result in a 12th-level...

Shadow Blade warlock: (2014 version) Dex-based build, that's your main ability score. Learn shadow blade at level 3; this is now your main attack and where most of your spell slots will go. It can't be you pact blade so you can't take Thirsting blade for extra attack; you'll be using it with...

Kind of like how 13th Age does it? Could work, though you'd probably want to give a couple extra prep slots to compensate. I think they might be a bit more popular given the fact that you don't prepare spells into specific slots - having detect magic on hand is more likely to come up than giant...

You could offload the work to random tables or AI, but there’s reasons people don’t like that in actual play.

I do recall a lot of the +1 LA options being pretty good, but anything higher than that would start causing problems.

I’d do a variation of paragon classes, except that you’d start with levels in [species] and multiclass into regular classes, rather than what’s described in the poll. IE if we’re giving centaurs all the physical benefits and no mental penalties (because why would Mentor or Chiron have mental...

Both - I'm in multiple ongoing games, most of which are online but one is in-person. Edit to add: I think online is actually better if you want to stay focused on the game itself, both mechanically (where the VTT can communicate game data quickly and clearly) and narratively-rp-wise (since...

If we're not gonna find loot in the dungeons, why are we playing Dungeons ad Dragons (tm)?

Possible third subclass might be artificer/alchemist or even witch: instead of studying via texts you learn to focus magic through objects, such as potions, wands/staves, weapons, or all sorts of other things. Maybe you get some charges for your core spells and use spell slots for other things...

My “other” vote is due to completely forseen work-related absences (specifically I was on a work trip so couldn’t make it) - we knew a month ahead of time we’d miss that week. My more normal reasons are illness and work emergency.

This does a great job explaining why getting a bunch of friends together and trying to schedule a game is so hard. But it never addresses the inverse, which has always been my go-to solution: find a time and then get a group of people who can make that time work. You may need to go through a...

Option B: the character returns as a Dullahan (headless barbarian) - make sure to add rules for the head falling off when they’re hit hard.