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They are literally just a single race that had a civil war. Some fled to another plane, but there aren't enough physical or physiological differences to really consider them entirely different species and have a lot more in common than they have apart. They even continue to speak the same...

Well, I would make it about that simple. Simple Weapon Proficiency Light One Handed - d4 One Handed - d6 Two Handed - d8 Two Handed (Heavy) - d10 Ranged/Thrown Normal - d6 Ranged Loading - d8 Martial Weapon Proficiency Light One Handed - d6 One Handed - d8 Two Handed - d10 Two Handed (Reach...

I would probably say the best way to interpret the results is to ignore the "B" column. I think a lot of people who really didn't know anything about a given race just defaulted to saying its probably in the middle. So a large bulge in the middle probably implies that a lot of people just aren't...

THIS is why elves would get a charisma bonus. Because you think it is reasonable that there should be a special elf version who is 100% ideally suited to be the singular best race for every single class. In your mind they are the supermen. The ones who are automatically superior to all other...

Well, it really is this edition that merged dark vision and low light vision. I'm actually considering separating them again... It might be fun to even work in some penalties-- for instance, perhaps Dark Vision races are actually colorblind not just in the dark, but in general... and races with...

It really doesn't matter if the abilities are delayed. If you build them entirely out of combat abilities to be equal or better at first level and then you freely hand out additional powerful abilities as subsequent levels, the race is not going to be well-balanced. A character can hit 5th level...

Well, if everyone else is arguing that one should boost the stats and viability of all swords to the point that there really is no point in any other weapon being on the weapons table at all, then someone ought to take the counter point. Why the hell even have axes and maces and halberds in the...

I am a bit skeptical that you would be using the abilities of Actor, Athlete, Dungeon Delver, Keen Mind, Linguist, Mage Slayer, Martial Adept, Mounted Combat, Observant, or Tavern Brawler more often than you would make an attack or damage roll. Or Stealth roll if you are a thief. Also-- while a...

I am just going to jump in here and point out.... Historically, on the actual battlefield... swords SUCKED. Using a sword of any sort was an undesirable situation. So what is with this drive to make all swords into GOD weapons?!! The fact that they are even functional in D&D is due to the...

I think the problem with the Gith is that, really, one should first figure out how the Psionist or Mystic or whatever it is going to be called in this edition is going to work first. It kind of feels like the Sorcerer kind of stole most of the ideal mechanics for the Psionist class. And the UA...

Feats and racial classes just entirely devalue the races that came out after the PHB. And particularly in regards to Volo where the races were designed as absolute garbage, the last thing that is needed is to devalue them even more by giving the PHB races elite overpowered feats and racial...

Attribute bonuses could be removed all together. At that point one wouldn't have to worry about adding bonus attributes to the humans. If the races only conferred proficiency bonuses, some general weaker versions of first level class abilities that you can use at times instead of your main class...

I wouldn't combine Dexterity and Strength-- I think it would be better to combine Strength and Constitution. Both stats are generally about being bigger and more muscly. I really think the idea of a character who would be high on strength and low on constitution or visa-versa would be quite an...

That could certainly work. I like it. Not really sure how I would implement such a thing. Elves and Firbolgs definitely still carry with them. Beyond that, even if there were other-realmly origins, I don't know that it factors in so well as the general ecological niche they tend to occupy. I...

My goal is to rework the D&D 5e races other than humans (whose variant rules make them pretty standard). I have a few goals - Eliminate subraces, it feels like a bit of an admission that the race wasn't written flexible enough to fully encompass the concept if it needs to be split up like this...

It's a "you" directed towards those who bemoan something being lost by not having a universally "evil" race that are all much weaker than a mid-level character against which the PCs are encouraged to kill on sight and ultimately commit total genocide if possible while literally being labeled as...

They were never all that particularly monstrous except by label. They were just "humans, except it is totally fine to murder them all down to the last living being because they aren't 'human' humans and all universally 2-dimensional evil and stupid and hopeless who literally popped into...

One thing that should be considered though... Does the game fundamentally do enough that even if one could raise one of their lower stats by a much greater amount, players would still choose to invest everything in their prime attribute because so much of classes is so totally dependent upon a...

Attributes are fundamentally a lot of "sacred cows" that kind of are "iconic" to D&D that... kind of have to be tackled. Why are the ability scores even what they are? Well, naturally because holy be his name, the one and only truth, savior and law bringer from upon high Lord Gary Gygax named...

Are you certain you don't want this class to grant any weapon or armor proficiencies? Even simple weapons and light armor? Particularly at early levels, this class is going to be in pretty terrible shape compared to any proper class and you could more or less balance that out by giving them...