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Option 2, because I'm only going to take the parts I like, and that's easier with bullet points.

Hell yes! If I'm going to play a necromancer it's because I want to be a dread lord leading a horde. The one time I played at a 5e table with a necromancer it really was never a problem. The undead were only really useful in combat in a few big planned out battles with lots of enemy targets to...

Well now that the 2024 rules make all the summons spells just conjure a boring personality and consequence free spirit in the shape of the thing like some sort of video game power, undead are the only "summonses" I'm interested in working with, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who find the...

Bond has an idiosyncratic personal preference in martinis, and him being a stickler for it is meant to establish him as a man of a certain refinement who knows what he likes and gets it. The trouble is that the line became iconic and for many people the first thing they learn about martinis is...

Indeed. Clicking right off (especially with newer creators, or creators branching into different content) can be a stronger disapproval than not clicking at all. Low average watch time tells the creator its a dud, whereas not clicking just makes them think they're title and thumbnail are duds...

First off, not everyone liked it because it was "mechanically overpowered". It got one extra ability point, a couple skills, and not much else. A strong choice, but even on the mechanical end it was more that it had features highly flexible to a variety of character concepts that made the...

In my view an unseen servant created by a bardic ritual is literally born of the weavings of arcane magic and song, so obviously they can keep a beat, just as one summoned by a wizard is probably intrinsically at home with handling books. But D&D these days seems to want to avoid that level of...

D&D YouTube has a particular problem, in as much as whatever form of it a creator does they generally run out of enough good content to support a channel after, I don't know, maybe 25-50 videos. Mileage will vary, but a year or two of regular videos and almost anyone will be running dry. Their...

Alright, just remember to keep your thumbnail shocked picture confined to only one hand on the cheek. You need to save the two handed, "home alone" shock picture for when you react to someone's reaction.

Oh, but let me do you one better, it's someone you've never heard of discussing the opinions of other unnamed people you've probably also never heard of on a thing that didn't happen.

I mean basically that's what I assume whenever there are D&D scandal videos these days. A lot of content creators got addicted to those scandal clicks during the OGL debacle days, and after they exhausted the rest of their audience's interest, all they've got left is the people who just want to...

Adventure Hook: Overnight all the half-elves and half-orcs have disappeared from the Sword Coast. Everyone knows a local strange cabal of wizards is responsible, but for some mysterious reason most people are content to just let it happen or would rather debate the merits than take action.

Half-elf has always been my go-to race for fantasy games that offered it, even before 5e made it a particularly strong choice. Removing them from the game was a mistake for D&D and will be a mistake for Solasta 2.

I'm running Death at Sunset next week. But my first change was to get rid of the brainwashed elves (my objection was more that I didn't buy the brainwashing and wasn't looking forward to roleplaying it, I didn't even think about how the information would be conveyed). I think I'm going to have...

A cake mimicking a mimic mimicking cake. That's getting pretty meta!

I'd just level up to Sorcerer 5/Warlock 3 if you're also doing a rules change and dip psion later. There's enough retconning happening without also having you forget 3rd level magic. Or else just put off the rules change until a later level-up.

I'm going to have to insist that when the buccaneer casts Find Familiar they can have the familiar manifest as a parrot (or, perhaps, monkey). I'm not sure why Rogue levels and Buccaneer levels shouldn't stack for sneak attack. That seems needlessly conservative, given how stingy you are with...

Well the basic 2024 Wizard chassis is pretty strong, and it's a good thing too because WotC seems to want to make all the Wizard subclasses a little underwhelming. I used to play a 5e Conjuration Wizard and my favorite part was Minor Conjuration. It had little practical value, but every use of...

I'm one Phoenician Scheme away from having seen all of them, and should have that dealt with before the month is done. Royal Tenenbaums is pretty clearly the best in my mind. Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest Hotel are similarly masterpieces. Rushmore was a standout early work and the one I...

I this is what I went for in my own homebrew 5e clone. But I also gave everyone two attacks on the attack action at level one, so the damage curve at low levels was less affected. Meanwhile, while I was working to simplify, WotC was working overtime to come up with ways to make it all more...