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I wanted to do a 5e campaign that was all about finding and using new spells after existing spells mostly stop working. The party would be spellcasters only and every class would be able to add new spells to their spellbooks somehow. They'd function like wizards learning from scrolls but the...

I don't want anybody to take my preference for simplicity at the table as threadcrapping. Before your game can get cosmic, you have to understand how your cosmos works. Even if the work that goes into explaining the cosmos doesn't see play at the table, a forum like this is the perfect place to...

For simplicity's sake, and so as not to overwhelm my players with an infodump, I like to consolidate the planes. In my current world, the Astral and Ethereal planes are the same thing, and everything else is just planets. The various heavens, hells, feywild, shadowfell, elemental planes...

I've written something similar, but in my system there's no set astral boundary. Instead, if your ship reaches a certain speed, you drop into the Astral Sea, which functions like a magical Hyperspace or something. You have to spend a long time accelerating to get going that fast though, so it...

So... what's the next step here? What can WotC do to try and make this right? And what should the rest of us do in response?

Take out the things that mostly don't matter, or beef those things up so there's a purpose to writing it on your character sheet. For example, spell components. They're usually handwaved, unless the DM goes to great lengths to say "You can't cast spells right now". Either reduce them entirely...

Historically, that is correct. However, I think rebalancing monster crits with recharge abilities will require rewriting a lot of monster stat blocks to include more recharge abilities. If they want useful feedback on their proposed changes, they should release some monsters written with those...

I don't love the Dragonborn racial feature that lets every Dragonborn automatically know Draconic. That might work for some settings, but I don't want it to be the default.

What do you expect/hope to see in future playtest packets? Assuming that all the changes made in the first packet stick around and keeping in mind the design goals that have been discussed publicly, how do you build off those changes to make an interesting and fun 5.5e? I want to see more...

It depends on the style of campaign I'm running. Some games can support a character coming out from behind a corner, shaking hands with the party and then joining up like they've been together all along. YMMV, but I think a megadungeon campaign or most published adventures work this way. On the...

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I'd love to see a proper 5e magazine take the place of Dragon+. For me, Dragon+ was rarely much more than ads for WotC's upcoming products. Not that I mind getting ads, especially in a free app, but it wasn't ever anything I cared about strongly. What I'd really like to see is thick, physical...

Is there a line of text missing between the fifth and sixth lines on the first page?

In short, I want to see the things in 5e that rarely come up and mostly don't matter be made either much more mechanically important or reduced entirely to fluff. Honestly, I'm not too bothered about which way those things go, whether they're beefed up or thrown out. For example: Alignment...

I used Kender as the "evil version" of Halflings. In my world, the "evil versions" of races (Drow, etc) aren't literally underground in the Underdark, they're figuratively underground secret societies. My Kender understand private property, they just reject the concept.

It looked previously to me like Rolled & Told was a victim of the Oni Press - Lion Forge merger. What's Going On With Lion Forge and Oni Press, Anyway? - PIPELINE COMICS The 5e content was, I assumed, not profitable enough to justify keeping it going, especially compared to comics that could...

There's a lot of backstory discussion of the Elves and the Drow and how long ago the Drow abandoned the surface and were corrupted by Lolth, etc. Are there any good published adventures that are explicitly set during that schism? Any system or edition. I think there's some interesting story...

Depends on how serious/silly you want your goblins to be. I assume Pathfinder's goblins are a big influence, but you don't have to take that route. You might have pitch meetings where various traditional BBEGs try to sell your goblins on joining their evil army. You definitely want an...

Mechanically, I like it. It's no different at the table than a custom class with a strict racial prerequisite. Story-wise, I don't like it. It implies a setting where elves are all the same, in contrast with humans that have their choice of class. If you like it, have fun, but it's not...

What do you think this will mean for third-party who want to sell their books on the Beyond Marketplace? I'm thinking especially about the larger third parties like Kobold Press or Goodman Games, not the official collaborations like with Penny Arcade or Critical Role. On the one hand, I can...