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Why not just turn the Halfling's Lucky ability into a feat? Otherwise what you are talking about sounds almost certain to be a human rogue. Now they might not be the sort of Rogue that focuses on high Dex, sneaking and backstab (something the Rogue class sadly did not manage to eject or even...

Well, my first criticism is going to be that you are trying to fill your world with way too many PC-capable races. Not all of them are going to feel particularly interesting and unique. Just from your list, I can see a lot of overlap happening between gnolls and canid to the point where the...

You are presuming it has to be homebrew. As in every single published D&D setting it makes sense in. So basically you have never heard of Ravenloft (no Orcs or Goblins unless they are individuals who wound up there by accident), Dark Sun (no Orcs or Goblins), Dragonlance (No Orcs), Planescape...

I think having Dwarfs and Gnomes classes have abilities specifically towards attacking goblins, orcs, ogres and giants and always those things and only those things is handicapping and straight-jacketing the way you can even use them. Why should Dwarfs be necessarily racially advantaged towards...

I don't have any good mechanics for this right now myself, I was wondering if anyone had some ideas on how to do it. What I want to do is come up a with a pretty clean way of doing a mob of enemies. The idea would be a situation where you would have a large number of enemies, at least 10 and...

The point I am ultimately trying to make is that instead of presenting it at foreign or alien, treat the cultural elements from other countries as though they are normal. Don't crank the feudalism, lack of humanity, a devaluing of human life or social restrictions up to 11 when you dropped it to...

I was clearly speaking of the time period in which D&D is closest to the real world level of technology. During a time prior to the wide spread use of personal firearms, but after the wide-spread adoption of metal armor. When castles were still considered serious defensive structures and the...

???? Most of European history, everyone in the continent was a Catholic Christian and, if not, they were killed in horrific manners until the remainder converted. They were literally viewed as being servants of the evil god aka "devil" and thus no matter what cruelty was exacted upon them, it...

That would be precisely it. That is exactly how I would go about making it.

If you have a hallway with a hidden pit trap or "bottomless" pit or pit of lava, which were your own examples, and the adventurers MUST walk down that hallway in order to complete their mission-- that is a planned event. Like it or not, the moment you put that there you have planned to have the...

While save or die things might be satisfactory to a person trying to present the game as a simulation, it does not function at all in a narrative sense and is fundamentally bad for game play. It knocks both a player and a protagonist out of a story due to an event that was almost certainly not...

Why does there need to be a "Paladin" class? Why not just multiclass Fighter and Cleric. Why is there a "Ranger" class when you have the ability to be a Fighter who takes some Rogue and Druid levels? And why is there a "Bard" class? Surely you can just be a Rogue and mix in a level of Fighter...

If that were the case, then everyone in Dungeons & Dragons would be part of the Catholic Church (or a renamed version of the same thing) and there would only be one god with anyone else who worshipped anything else being a demon worshipper. It would also actively suppress all attempts to advance...

Given that the attributes are +2 Strength and +1 Constitution, I have to wonder why the classes you are gravitating towards are Dexterity and Charisma classes. A Barbarian, Paladin and Fighter seem the most appropriate choices. A Cleric would probably also be better than anything you listed.

I wouldn't want to see it granting extra action to other PCs, at least if we are talking off-turn actions. Maybe granting them an extra attack or extra bonus action on their next turn would be acceptable. But at least no more so than a Cleric does. It is one thing to enhance other PCs actions...

People can't really even decide if they want the replacement class for the Warlord (whatever it may be named) to be basically just a Fighter with some token Bard powers thrown in or to basically be a Cleric without the god stuff and anti-undead stuff (or spell slots) or Bard without the music...

Kobold Noble. (Comes from a long and proud lineage of princely dragon slaves.) Catfolk/Rakasta Pirate. (Aquaphobe who lives on a boat!) (Half) Ogre Secret Agent Rogue. (Shhh!! I am in disguise as one of the human cultists!) Goblin Sage. (Listen to the great wisdom of the 11 year old!)...

Never. They should never, ever, EEEEEVER print something called "Oriental Adventures" ever again. Even printing a Kara-tur setting would be totally tasteless unless you just utterly revamped the whole thing and brought it back to the drawing board to approach it with a totally different...

The subclasses aren't remotely balanced. They get wildly different defensive options, but their actual effect on the battlefield is the same. In fact, given just how much Strength and Dexterity are going to help you, I cannot remotely come up with any reason to ever use the Strategist where you...

You have already put more thought into this than pretty much anyone else who plays elves. How exactly do I play a person who has lived a century but hasn't learned anything more than I knew when I was 16? In what way does one's live play out that experience alone hasn't changed his outlook on...