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"I encourage players to reskin classes/subclasses/backgrounds liberally. Take the class/subclass/background that fits the function you want for a character, and then tell your character's unique story. #DnD " ~Jeremy Crawford. I think it's fairly obvious most people, within reasonable bounds...

I'm very much of the Treantmonk mindset here. I really don't understand how some can view fluff as core to the rules as crunch. Crunch is math, change it and the system starts to buckle and fail. Fluff, within reason and at the discretion of the DM, can be changed much more easily. Crunch is...

Clerics aren't bad, I think people dislike the class because historically they have been expected to heal. They are not the best healers anymore, at least not for out of combat recovery, druids are. If you have a group that doesn't expect you to be a healbot and you know your spells, clerics are...

Don't wanna get too deep into this mire of arguments, but your post strikes me as very persuasive. I started out on the "druids can't wear it, sorry" school of thought, but now... yeah, I agree with your take on the rules. But I would argue that even if you're right on the rules, trying to be a...

That's a fair point, and I admit one of my bigger criticisms of wild shape has been the lack of variety at the high end. I've always just picked what animal my druid likes early on and reskinned later shapes to be just bigger, meaner versions thereof. But that's hardly a clean solution. That's...

That's fair. My initial impression was more a knee-jerk response as a druid main than proper analysis. That's a fair retort, I'll back my position up a bit. That's totally fair. Your version of wildshape for non-moon druids might work. My vantage point is entirely that of a salty moon druid...

I'll be honest, as a druid main these changes just outright destroy a major class feature and ruin moon druids entirely. The temp hp do not come close to replacing the durability you're taking away, the damage of wildshape was already pretty bad (after level 6 at least), and your changes further...

The difference is one is RAW, so rejecting the former requires an amendment to the rules and potentially a fight with the players who, justifiably, don't like their major class features being nerfed. The latter is not RAW, and involves adding in additional mechanics that are not intended in...

Your poll is wrong-headed and missing the obvious answer of "taunting should work if, when, and to the extent the DM judges on a case by case basis." A hard system of contested skill checks is just a horrible idea, and has no place in 5th edition. Are you going to be okay with the same being...

I strongly, -strongly- contest the fact that true polymorph is behind prismatic wall. In my view the only spell that competes with true poly is wish. This isn't from reading the spells, this is from having both in play for a considerable amount of time. Everyone knows wish is awesome and does...

Strictly RAW, you can, because studded leather does not mention being made of metal but several types of armor directly do, providing a precedent that if an armor is majority metal it will be noted. RAI is totally clear; Crawford is the head rules guy, and if he says studded leather is meant to...

Better than the classes that don't get heals. Bards typically heal better after a certain point (assuming they are building towards it, to a degree), druids heal better (out of combat, at least) pretty much from 1 to 20. Druids and rangers are so great at out of combat healing DMs often complain...

Honestly I'm of the opinion that clerics aren't actually that great at healing. I also don't think 'healer' is a role that is super important, though having multiple people who heals that do other useful stuff is nice.

I have gotten three characters to 20, and four to 18+. 1. My first 18th level character was a moon druid named 'The Muffin Man' who went slowly insane with his power and was retired. 2. My second character to get 4th tier and my first to 20 was a 6 vengeance paladin, 14 dragon sorcerer...

Moon druid is always the right answer. Need heals? Healing spirit, best out of combat healing spell around. Need a tank? There's a form for that. Need dps? Summon a bunch of wolves or giant cobras. Need to control the battlefield? Spike growth those zombies and watch them commit suicide by...

I'd say barbarians are fine. They're effective at what they do, but what they do is fairly narrow. Dexterity barbarians are generally not a thing except for niche builds because you lose out on several key barbarian features, and traditional barbarians are mostly better. In fact having a lower...

I think this is largely up to the player and the DM. I prefer to play druids who practice an ancient form of wizardry, more primal, and in some ways more powerful (though less refined). I don't play it like a nature cleric, but some people do, and that's cool, too. Whatever you find fun, I guess?

No, the reason the 'why' is important is because one needs to know what the end goal of the change is to comment on whether or not it accomplishes that. Oh no, my true intentions revealed! Glad you can read my mind and know what I'm thinking. Though no, there are a lot of things in 5e that...

You don't want to discuss why you think this idea is necessary, but I think that's an important question to bring up. What are you trying to fix with this change? That's not changing the subject, that actually matters. Whatever it is you are trying to change, it is unlikely that it is broken in...

No, it's not. Obviously the DM at a table can rule that it is, and he can DM for an empty table, but that is not an argument that would find much traction in the overall popular culture of D&D. Fluff text is just that, fluff. It provides an example of what a typical example of someone who is...