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Technically it is only punitive if the player was dumb enough to fall for the PHB's out-right lie that a Strength-based fighter was something that was remotely meant to be played unless one was playing a human and took the Great Weapons-Master or the Polearm Master feat or a Half-Orc intending...

Honestly, I think part of the issue was presuming that getting any simple weapon proficiency was ever anything that should add to the overall "cost" of the race. There are many things in there that you assigned a 0 cost value to add to a custom race that were FAR more valuable than a proficiency...

Well, I can recall two times when D&D has had races that on their surface had a really ridiculous wide possibility for variation, but ended up being hamstringed because ultimately they did have to limit the number of forms artificially in order to assign stats to them. Those were the Saurians (a...

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Personally I have to feel that it is probably a bit too much to be this specific about what sort of monkey they turn into (actually, orangutans are apes, not monkeys like the others so that alone stands out). There are dozens of different sorts of monkeys and apes across the planet. If this is...

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Well, the concept is to try to bring the Battlemaster down to starting from level 1 while rejecting many of the invulnerability and multi-attack abilities that would remain exclusive to the Fighter while also combining it with aspects of the Bard san the spellcasting stuff and then build in...

If you don't even accept proof, hand-waving even the Paladin's Aura of Fearlessness, Bardic Inspiration and the Battlemaster's Rally ability of all things (LITERALLY the identical mechanics!) are the same thing... because you are just mind-locked into denial, then there is no point in discussing...

Your ignorance is showing. You've never actually looked at any other class in the book, have you? The whole Bardic Inspiration thing, arguably the most fundamental feature of the Bard is based precisely on that premise. The Cleric's whole magic premise is based on the idea that their belief in...

Here is the thing. It already exists in the game. It is already a massive component of the Bard. There is this character class who has been around since 2nd edition and a major component of it is that when everyone else in the group is fighting for their lives, this foppish idiot you have along...

I have totally revamped the class, checking that it is considerably more balanced with the Bard and the Cleric than my last version. If it is too strong, it would be because the subclass features are too strong. And, yes, they gain and insane amount of strategy die at high levels-- but you...

If that were the case, there wouldn't be a necessity to pull words from a language that the over-whelming majority of the dialogue, description and character come from. Nor would you feel it was necessary to name them after a real world culture or dress them in relative strict accordance with a...

The July Survey http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/july-survey It indicates that people want to play in Eberron, Ravenloft, Dark Sun and Planescape. (They came in equal to forgotten realms). It also indicated that people wanted to play Alchemists, Artificers and Shamans. Warlord was not...

Well, your rant certainly put me in a position. I apologize for implying that you were ignorant in being an arrogant racists by suggesting that all people for whom the Japanese word for knight may be applied in a setting where all peoples are Japanese, Chinese or Korean by default should fit...

Okay, yeah... but the problem is that they don't seem to be following what the surveys have indicated they should do. The surveys certainly indicated that they should release a player's options book with the various racial and class concepts that weren't included in the PHB now that the game is...

Well, gee. It is SO generous of you, as one of those elite class of humans known as Floridians, no less one who use a South Park reference as your username, as the internationally recognized foremost experts at what does and does not qualify as a samurai, to inform us all that the Japanese have...

How are Halflings even remotely difficult to incorporate? Halflings have no magical powers, no required background, don't occupy any special ecological niche. Honestly, I have never even remotely understood the appeal of them simply because well.... they are just short humans with a strong...

Even your extreme examples seem like things that could be negotiated down and compromised into something workable. A half-field troll with laser eyes is obviously an outlier and implies a lot of mechanical edges. Furthermore, this character is obviously an outlier. I think the most reasonable...

Well, I would suggest that if there are going to be class restrictions at all, it needs to come from "what makes sense". There aren't going to be examples of magic-casting Halflings because they were unwilling to challenge the model. It is one thing to remove a race from the world, another...