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I am so stealing this. :lol:

Huh. I mean, I agree with this, but in my gaming group, Alert has never fallen into that category. In fact, no feat has fallen into that category. In a group of five players, in... *counts on fingers* five 5E campaigns (some complete, some abandoned), I think I've seen Alert taken maybe three times.

As somebody who's been working in multiple creative fields since late 2000, I can assure you that this is patently untrue. There may indeed be times when "parallel development" is used as a cover for something else, but far more often, it's genuine. (At least in creative circles. I have no idea...

I've changed what the derro actually are in most of my campaigns, in part for that reason. I like the duergar, but the game seems to have gone out of its way to prevent them from standing out. (In my games, for those who care, the derro were initially created by something from the Far Realm. It...

These are all cool ideas so far, and I'd love to hear more. But this: This is downright brilliant. See, I hate the modrons. Always have. Always felt they were silly, and not the good/fun kind of silly. But the idea of them as consumers/re-creators of living beings as raw materials for new...

So, let's say I wanted to include a race in my campaign that are, thematically, the D&D-equivalent to the Borg from Star Trek. Let me stress "thematically." I'm not looking to create D&D cyborgs or anything that necessarily physically resembles the Borg. The important factors I'm looking to...

Well, I was all set to argue that, yes, she was a god in De&De, but not in Queen of the Demonweb Pits. Except I just looked it up, and I'm wrong. While the module suggests not necessarily using her divine abilities as a lesser god, it does include them. So apparently, I was incorrect in...

Ah. Gotcha. There, we're entirely in agreement. I very much dislike the idea of her being a fallen-god-who-became-a-demon-who-became-a-god. But then, I don't like the fact that she's a god at all. I liked her better as a demon lord. (I prefer Vecna, Tiamat, and Bahamut as non-deities, too.)

Wait, what? No. Lolth was created as a demon from the very first time she appeared. She wasn't a god at all until much later. Once they made her a god, they played around with various origins, but she was very much a demon lord--and not a god--at first.

I will not play along with the jokey way you tried to portray this by answering the poll, and the rules of ENWorld prevent me from really going into detail of what I think of you for doing this. So I will simply say that I find the behavior revolting, and you equally so for engaging in it.

Corpsetaker, is that you?! I almost didn't recognize you. Did you do something with your hair?

This is fascinating, and I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what the playtest holds for us. I tend to lean toward simpler games as a preference--not too simple (5E is my current go-to), but simpler than Pathfinder was. OTOH, I also like having the option of a more complex system, but not...

While it has never received errata, I genuinely believe the shadow's strength-damaging attack was left in as an error from prior iterations. It is the only example of "generic" ability damage in 5E, without sufficient supporting rules discussing how to adjudicate it.

You're quite welcome. Truth be told, I don't know a lot about those mythologies myself. (And I need to fix that.) I only happen to know this because I was recently researching real-world Raven myths for a warlock character that I wound up not even playing. :o

In the mythologies of multiple First Nations tribes, Raven is the creator deity and brought light into the darkness. I don't mention that to counter any of your general points--honestly, I tend to forget the wereravens and talking ravens are even a part of Ravenloft, so I don't really have a...

Now, that's a complaint I can get behind. I can see a couple of different ways to make it possible via house rules, but they all have an impact on balance that would really only fly if you know/trust the people you're gaming with.

I find the constant assertions that feats were "poorly implemented" in 5E to be absurd. Not because people aren't allowed to have opinions, but because it's constantly put forth as some sort of undeniable truth. I like that we have to choose between ASIs and feats. And almost every single...

This subclass does have religious/divine aspects.

Heh. It's not really relevant since the "12, not 20" clarification. But the funny thing is, my group just got finished playing a "20th level, anything goes" mini-campaign. We had to include in our background a reason for the gods to want to banish us, since the campaign took place in basically a...

The D&D rules have never, ever been setting-agnostic. They have always included elements of one setting or another, even if it was only implied. From the artifacts to the spell names to the outer planes to the very nature of some of the core classes, the game has always leaned toward or implied...