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Having neither a console nor a smartphone, I have no personal axe to grind so I voted "brillig". I liked Baldurs Gate, though.

Will there be a Xanathara ?

A generi¢ FR game with expan$ion pack$ for other $etting$.

A wooden one. Because they won't be expecting it and they will roll around laughing when you produce it, which gives your buddies advantage. It's called a chortle sword. It's a bit like a vorpal sword, except your opponents laugh their heads off. Your bard will tell you where you can buy one...

If RL became more like D&D we'd all be in trouble. What age do elves get pensions? Should undead get free healthcare? Are banks obliged to accept gold pieces? Can you sue a dragon if it overflies an airport and causes flight delays? Is it legal to Misty Step through a red traffic light? Who...

I've read the post several times to try to figure out what the author is trying to tell us. I've read between the lines, on the lines, above and below the lines and I'm still not sure. But I think there's a fallacy in there somewhere. Yes, when you make a D&D character, you can choose between...

A troop (or possibly a trope) of gnome paladins batter down your DM screen and smite you with their Holy Avengers, crying "Woe unto the infidel who believeth not that we exist!".

Er ... not all of us. I'm an 'old player' in both senses and I'm in the 'no restrictions' camp. I'm old enough to remember when only Elves could take the 'Elf' class, but I don't especially want to go back there. I prefer the richness of 5e.

I've though of an analogy - the vegetarian restaurant.

That's okay. I don't take it as an attack when someone has different views to me :D We have different ways of having fun and we find fun in playing D&D in different ways. That's okay, it shows how great the game is, that it can accommodate both of us (and millions of other people too). You are...

Ah, but I don't, you see. You may run your favourite character in my game any time (as long as it's not too different in level from the rest of the PCs) or bring along your own pregen. Whatever. Sounds cool. Do you have an amusing explanation for how your Int came to exceed 20? I can work with...

My philosophy is to go with what the players want. Unless you have at least a dozen players around the table, not all races and not all classes are going to be in play anyway. If none of the players makes a gnome paladin, you are free to declare "there are no gnome paladins in my campaign". It...

It will all be sorted out in a post that somebody is going to make next week.

It's not to do with mechanics. It's to do with the narrative. You describe attacks differently depending on the type of weapon you are wielding. Throg the barbarian whirled his mighty warhammer around his head and uttered the battle cry of his tribal forefathers but the hideous orc merely...

It averages out. For every human adventurer who has +1 on everything, there is another human who got -1 on everything but stayed home because no-one wanted to play him.

You could ask the players all to take the same background, then develop the theme from that. For example: Acolyte. The PCs are all priests from the same temple which is ransacked by thieves. A holy item is stolen and they become adventurers to track down the thieves and recover it. They can...

Mystics as defined in UA as class will certainly play differently, I would agree with that. But does it have to be a separate class to play differently? I'm applying Occam's Razor, here. Also, my scheme, using a feat, works for commoner NPCs without classes. Imagine a group of half-elves with...

I like the idea of incorporating psi into the game, but making it a special class doesn't seem to me to be the right way to go about it because you end up duplicating all the other classes and spells and struggling to make them 'different'. The simplest mechanic is to make it a feat that...

I've gone against the grain and voted 'No'. If a setting is characterised by a complete absence of some of the core classes or races, that doesn't mean you have to ban PCs of those classes and races from playing in it. Playing the only Half-Orc Paladin in a world with no Half-Orcs and no...

How about a survivor thread to see which was the best survivor thread? Then the ultimate winner is whatever won the thread that wins. Or, you could have a survivor thread where the entries are the winners of each survivor thread. That would make people think. Do I vote up Elven Chain over...