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We should really do that with magic. Just give the wizard the class feature: "has magic". Think about how much space we could save in the rule book! Then the wizard player can just constantly be asking the GM whether he can use his magic in this situation.

I'm pretty sure the issue is not whether you can translate a fictional concept into 5e rules in some way. The question is whether doing so will be satisfying and fun.

Honestly all the D&D gods are just cruft. They don't even exist in many of the D&D settings. The fact that they're all WOTC intellectual property was really a big gift, both to the OSR, and to third party publishers. If that's the sort of lore people think is needed then I feel that D&D...

The issue here is how the only thing that supports the social pillar being a pillar is that someone called it that. (A clever trick really - who knew that all you had to do to convince people a game supports something is say that it does - it's a real labour saving technique.) I want a Fighter...

Of course Fighters can contribute. They can tell the bard what to say and then the bard can say it.

Where is the magic pipeweed? Not to mention the waistcoat of endless pocket sausages.

Yeah. It would make more sense to say "get the player who takes notes and is always focused to play the Fighter and get the player who never pays attention to play the bard" that way there will be some kind of parity in social situations. Not a great solution.

Honestly, based on concept of the Fighter (and possibly the Barbarian) I'd actually give them additional bonuses to Charisma as they level up. Basically reflects the inspiration for Fighters, both in the old eventually become a Lord aspect, and the Conan the Barbarian rise to the top through...

I'm sort of surprised by the idea that so many people don't do dungeon crawls. Do you mean you don't use the fictional dungeon environment? Or that you never explore a location based on a map with more than about 2 or 3 rooms?

And what inspiration do they provide for fantasy races?

But what about computer games and anime? D&D and mainstream fantasy have really drifted along way apart.

I think a dungeon is a particular way of resolving actions and movement via exploration through space. A forest can be a dungeon: "The trail you are on forks to the left and right, which one do you take?...Ok so you arrive in a small clearing; you can see an Ogre sitting on a log in the middle...

It may be scenes, but it's also just good basic Dungeon design. Dungeons work best when, on top of whatever else players are doing in the dungeon, unravelling the mystery of the dungeon, what it is, how it works, what the history is, is a part of the game.

With D&D I do dungeon delving, because if I don't I'm not really sure why I'm using this game and not something else like 13th Age which I feel does dramatic scenes better. (Or a non D&D game entirely) But when I do dungeons I do it in a much more modern way. My touchstones here are things...

This is seriously why pretty much why we all hated elves in my last group

This is kind of my issue wth Genasi. For one genies are kind of just fey from a different part of the world, and two genasi and half-elves are both kind of filling the same niche of 'humans but a little bit more interesting'. (Tieflings also use to be here too, but that changed somewhat with 4e).

THis is interesting and I'm surprised it didn't receive much comment. This is a dramatic change from 2017! Elves use to be no. 2 and Dawaves number 4! Half-Orcs have leapt up from 9 to 5. Perhaps this is generational change, with new players no longer having a particular attachment to the...

Is Your D&D Character Rare?

Where does this idea the noone plays halflings from? The data I posted was from 2017, but if there's something more recent where is it? In 2017 the only non Players Handbook race more popular than Halflings was Genasi. That's an argument for including them in the PHB, but it's Gnomes who need...

It seems obvious to me that when people want balance they mean "within acceptable tolerance". Therefore a game is generally considered well-balanced when a significant number of people agree that it is within what they feel is within acceptable tolerance. Everything else to me just seems like...