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Yuck. There's bat guano on everything.

Outlander is a background and yet the Barbarian and Ranger are classes.

No that's rubbish. What that really means is that the skill system is not a problem if the GM works around it.

Effective yes. Interesting or fun? No.

The Samurai level 7 feature is actually quite good. The problem is 1) you don't get it unti level 7, and 2) It's attached to the rest of the Samurai subclass.

Then everything I said can safely be added to the Fighter. The elite warrior throughout history, your Knights, your Samurai etc don't just study hitting people with pointy sticks, they study war, and are expected to be able to inspire lead and direct your basic warriors.

Honestly giving Fighters more skills doesn't really achieve that much. The skill system in 5e is pretty awful. The random element overwhelms the actual skill to a significant degree.

Honestly the problem is basically this. Fighter: Guy who fights Barbarian: Guy who fights and has a little bit of nature skills and does seem to get more skills fairly randomly as he levels up. Ranger: Guy who fights and tracks and hunts and has some nature magic. Paladin: Guy who fights and...

I'm not sure I buy that a Fighter should spend so much time fighting that they don't have time to learn skills. What does proficiency actually mean in Arcana, it is like having a Masters or PHD? How much time does the Rogue spend learning their sneak attack? What about the Bard? Lots of...

I reckon you could just roll Purple Dragon Knight and Champion into one subclass.

Yes. But the thing is, if Planeshift is on the table, then something like was posted by Pemerton below should be at some point. The issue is the idea that only casters get the tools to accomplish mythic things. Now I know that a lot of people don't like giving martial characters access to...

Balance is not important. Therefore I suggest the following change for 6E. Action Surge: You kill every enemy that you can see. If the enemy is already technically dead or not really alive you instead hack or pulverise them into hunks of meat, bone or metal as appropriate. You may use this a...

If you want to improve versatile weapons and small races there's not a lot to be gained by making them slightly better than previously but still significantly worse than existing options. Possibly let versatile weapons work with Great Weapon Master and let a longsword be used with finesse when...

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This is why I advocate separating out high level play into Epic levels. Because if the most powerful archmage in your game world is Level 12 then you don't have Planeshift. In other words, if people don't like high level play the solution is not to make it more like low level play. And if...

The thing about high level casters is not that they can solve the problem of travelling to another plane with a spell; it's that they can approach solving an entirely different problem by travelling to another plane, or teleporting the party across the world, or summoning an outsider for a chat...

One thing that might be fun is to prepare some kind of major complication that can appear at some point to throw everything into chaos. An obvious one might be a third faction appearing in the middle of the heist and throwing everything into chaos. So you could allow PCs to have as many...

The movement in genre fiction away from Tolkien's Dwarves and Elves has mostly been away from having non-human species altogether. Trying to think of the major fantasy series of the last 20 years or so: Wheel of Time: Ogier (And Trollocs and Myrdall - but definitely not pc options and in any...

I'm not saying that's the only reason to dislike them. It's just that I think the idea that were was a particular deep and lasting animus towards these two particular D&D races that warranted specific kid glove treatment in the PHB hasn't really seemed to pan out. Gnomes, Half Elves, and...