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The issue is this... If the race is moved to the surface, if they no longer have a connection to a dark spider goddess or spider deity, if they are no longer feared and they are no longer versed in the specific Drow society... in what way are they still Drow? Look over the Drow racial features...

Yeah, I mentioned the really lame contrivances that the designers made in order to make playing Drow easier and utterly ruining what they were really about. Can you imagine Gruumsh having a son whose goal was to lead his people towards living in harmony with all the people of the world and...

Put a little more thought into it and you would realize your last sentence is just plain absurd. A fictional character within the fictional environment of the game would not inherently have any knowledge of what your previous characters did. Nor would they have previous detailed knowledge from...

It seems to me that if what you want to make is a priest who is primarily about giving speeches and winning people over by force of personality alone, what you really should be making is a Bard who specializes in the Religion skill. I think it would be a pretty solid fit for this preacher...

I am surprised by all the people who replied on the first page who openly and proudly declared that they don't like to roleplay on a roleplaying game forum. Role playing means playing a role. And the role you are playing is a person who does not have your scientific knowledge, who doesn't know...

The Revenant has a problem that, if you break down the races, the weight of the mechanics in the subrace is not equal. If you take an Elven subrace and apply it to a Halfling, it would be way more powerful than any Halfling subrace because the bulk of the Halfling beneficial mechanics are in the...

I think it would be relatively fair to allow an individual player to swap out Fight Style for Cantrips as an alternate class feature. The trade-off ought to be pretty fair and even out.

If you say you are playing a Drow, and you are legitimately asking about this, I think there are some important considerations. I mean, don't get me wrong, 98% of the people who make Drow characters either just literally ignore the race part aside from its mechanics (and find cheap ways to get...

Okay, let me break this down to your intellectual level. To get stuff need work. Dwarf work. Human work. Halfling work. Orc don't work. Orc don't have stuff. Elf have all best stuff. But Elf no work. Someone do Elf work for Elf. Elf home secret? Elf no want you know who do work for Elf. Or Elf...

Actually, the issue is in regard to the resources elves have. If a society has metal, someone needs to spend their time in the pitch darkness covered with soot and swinging a pick in order to mine that metal, someone needs to stand next to a roaring forge that can heat that metal to a boiling...

Don't use modules. Go through the monster manual and create a random encounter table of entries that are roughly the right ECL and then take an old adventure map with lots of rooms. Choose which is the final room and choose a boss for the room as well as whatever McGuffin you are supposed to be...

When you talk about placing it in different eras, what you are really talking about is technology level. Technology level really just means changing the equipment that is available to characters. And when you change the equipment, what you are actually doing is altering the stats that characters...

Hmm.. I don't know to what degree I agree with the idea that the bad guys have to always, fully be bad. Honestly, best children's cartoons I have seen have antagonists that are a bit more complicated. If I think about fiction for children, even action fiction, yes-- the bad guys might be...

Well, Dwarves already have their evil aspects, it just tends to be romanticized or underplayed. Dwarves are greedy. Endlessly greedy. They cannot possibly possess enough gold and gems. They dig and dig and dig into the earth all in order to enrich themselves and, as a result, are the ones...

You know... If I were to write it, I would twist the knife a little and reveal that elves aren't nearly as "good" as they claim to be. Think about it... ever known an elf to do an honest days work? I mean... really? High Elves in particular seem to have all the stone, natural gas and metal...

It kind of feels as though perhaps you have too many pieces going on here to the point where some things have become more than redundant. For instance the Interstitial planes all seem alike... and, perhaps more troublingly, the idea that each of them connects all the mortal planes but since you...

The main problem you have here is.... you didn't make a Tanuki. Tanuki are a real animal. It is an animal that doesn't climb, it is a burrower. It is pretty slow and clumsy as far as a predator goes. The folktales about Tanuki generally paint them to being pretty dim, wild, awkward and...

I don't know about having a Drider mount... Driders are functionally humanoids, they just have weird lower bodies. Mounts are usually supposed to be animals regardless. A giant spider would thus be better than a Drider. Consider then that can use webbing inject poison with its giant dagger-like...

Fun?... Hmmm.. I'm not sure, I guess it depends on whether you find challenge fun or not. If there is a chance of hitting your own team because, realistically, what the characters are doing is going to put their own allies in as much danger as the enemies (i.e. engulfing the whole battle in...

Oh, I get Dragonlance just fine. It is the only D&D setting where all evil things are rallied under a single cackling bad guy that the heroes rise up and defeat. Because we need all evil things to be clearly labeled so the heroes know who to kill without consequence... there can't be any...