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Oh-- besides Gruumish, what about Maglibiyet? As I recall, isn't his whole thing that he has those devoted to him fight demons in the afterlife in order to seize control of the first layer of hell-- and a lot of the evil behavior of his followers is directly because they are trying to train...

Oddly, within D&D, virtually all those traits came to be associated with Gnomes as opposed to Dwarfs. And I have a sneaking suspicion that it was because the writers wanted to cast Dwarfs in a "more positive light" and so cast off a lot of the Jewish stereotypes onto the Gnomes. Large noses...

The whole D&D mechanics system is primarily about combat. That was incredibly true in the earliest editions where there was hardly a single space on the entire character sheet that did not relate entirely to combat, and the "thief skills" section that involved most of the non-combat actions one...

It does strike me that D&D tends to do evil gods very badly. The first issue is that there are "demons and devils" who basically feed on there being chaos and suffering in the world, and that's in and of itself a fine idea, though since they are fundamentally opposed to all gods-- then evil...

The idea is that they embody whatever aspects of humankind that the current writer decides are "the worst" and thus, over the years, have generally resembled whichever group of humans that the current writer or artist believes least deserve to be treated with humanity. Orcs are not something...

You are playing semantic games when it is the fundamental idea rather than the term that is causing the issue. "You are wandering through the woods and you see an Orc" the response it "I make an attack roll" Or "You see an elf" "Is it a light skinned or dark skinned elf?" "A dark skinned one*...

Defending Idle Champions of Forgotten Reals or Warriors of Waterdeep is pretty ridiculous. They used very dirty and parasitic tactic in order to cash-grab while producing nothing that can be called gameplay. If anyone is still playing either, I feel deeply sorry for them. They are trapped in...

The last 4 video games based on Dungeons and Dragons I played have been absolutely crap clicker or mobile games that were crap and greedy even for those genres. I am convinced that D&D is more than happy to greenlight any crap that wants to use the D&D license. So, no, just announcing that a...

I am pretty sure the U.S. and U.K. have given us living proof that you don't need any intelligence or wisdom to rise to the top and destroy the world so long as you have Charisma. You can even be ugly and repulsive to half the population so long as the other half find you super relatable and...

You cannot fix the broken weapons table, fix that certain classes and races are just trash because no thought or care was put into them, that Intelligence is an utterly worthless attribute that no one has any reason to have higher than 8 while Dexterity is a god attribute that allows you to have...

1 Whenever the DM feels like rewarding a weapon that the players will actually use. Although a Short Sword +1 is still a +1 to hit bonus over a standard rapier for any character relying on a rapier. Reallly-- in the same vein, one could claim that a Great Weapon Specialist Fighter (the only...

I understand that most are fairly happy with 5E, but at the same time 6E is fairly inevitable. Several years in, what improvements would you like to see with 6E? A few I have. * Actively work to make sure there are no utter god stats or dump stats. No stat should utterly be able to...

It feels like Pathfinder is just lazily copying what D&D did with them. Which sucks because they are utterly unusable in D&D unless you expressly play them exclusively as Wizards and Warlocks. Otherwise the racial stats are garbage and you would literally be better off playing literally any...

Here is what I would do for them, and some of these are not going to match what is in the books at all. Dragonborn Add your con bonus to your base AC instead of your armor if it would be higher than your armor. Advantage on rolls to rolls on Persuasion with Kobolds, Dragonborn and Dragons...

I enjoyed the system that was used in Neverwinter Nights and wish that game series had continued. Also, it would have been nice in those games to have more than 1 party member besides the main character at a time. (I recall I modded the game to allow that, but it just made everything such a cake...

In absolutely none of your "counterpoints" did you at all remotely offer a single shred of evidence that it was better, easier or that you came closer to having as effective of a character taking a non-favored race/class combination in the previous editions than it is in the current edition...

To have written something this completely wrong, I can only assume that you have never actually played any other edition of D&D in your life and are just making up :):):):) up. Every edition had attribute bonuses. Every single one. They also had attribute penalties which the current edition...

Umm... You have never seen a Dwarf Wizard?... You have seen less Dwarf Wizards than in AD&D?... First, Dwarfs get a Constitution bonus which is nice to have if you are a Wizard. Furthermore they are the only race that grants you access to medium armor proficiency-- which is super nice to have...

I can hardly disagree more about the point regarding Star Wars. Pretty much any Twi'lek or Rodian or Zabrak or Chiss or Cathar or Tagrata character, outside of a minor note here or there, could just be human and it wouldn't make one bit of difference. The cultures in Star Wars are extremely...

Can I be a member of Clan Tzimisce without the Vicissitude curse that is cool with the Camarilla but maintains the general "mad scientist" concept? Or how about a Lasombra Antitribu?