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At least for the games I run, Athletics is huge. The ability to lift heavy things like falling portculli, force open doors, climb, jump, swim, all come up regularly in my games. About the only person who isn't hampered by a lack of strength is the Wizard; everybody else relies on strength for...

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Of the gamers I know who don't play 5e, one is a rep for Castles & Crusades, and the others prefer Pathfinder. I personally am ambivalent about 5e. I know it is just about perfect for the D&D I like to run, but I dislike the art and layout of the books so much that using them is an unpleasant...

I don't know where it's been shown but I can generally tell the difference between characters as written by women and characters written by men. In general, women are no better at writing men than men are at writing women; a little worse possibly, since they are rarely challenged on it the way...

Fair enough. And since I have no desire to make hand crossbows more desirable, I guess I'll leave well enough alone. The ranger in my campaign's an archer anyway; so no real incentive to change it as it is.

If those were representative, instead of the best of an anemic lot, I'd agree with you.

Would making the bonus attack from two weapon fighting not use your bonus action make enough of a difference? I know it would be a positive boon to the ranger, who thanks to Hunter's Mark switching already has too much demand for his bonus actions? Archery is already superior to TWF even...

I want to get my hands on a copy, but haven't had the cash so far. Just from the look of it, it's way closer to what I want from D&D than what I've seen from WOTC so far.

Gonna go with Simplicity-but could also say "speed of play" which is kind of the same thing.

My main beef is almost everything that looks like a "power option" is also a limiting option. Like Polearm Master, and Sharpshooter. The fighter ought to be the guy who is, for his level, the master of all kinds of combat. Drop him naked and unarmed into a gladiator pit? He's gonna win, or...

This has been a perennial problem for me, going back to high school and the guy who wanted to play a drow assassin in Lankhmar. These days I try to be open...my main stipulation is "If it would look good airbrushed on the side of a van, it's in". But for this campaign, there are two cultures...

Ironically, if people hadn't talked about it on-line, I would have never noticed the sex/gender section of the PHB. I've never read that entry in any other edition of an RPG, and I wasn't originally going to start with 5e. I think I, and most grognards just assumed that the entire pantheon of...

Some actual data whether WOTC's inclusiveness policies have resulted in net new sales would be really interesting. Though I'm sure, even if it was positively shown that their policies resulted in less money for them and Hasbro, they would stand by them, as they feel it is the right thing for...

I'm not recommending it (because I have a low opinion of katanas) but take the longsword, remove the versatile property, add the finesse property, and call it a day? Basically you end up with a rapier with the slashing property instead of piercing, which is a lateral move. I'd probably call it...

I like human, and I prefer my campaign worlds to be humanocentric. What I'd really like is for D&D to allow some mechanical differentiation within humanity...not necessarily by ethnicity, to avoid claims of "unfortunate implications" because Flan get a bonus to intelligence, and bakluni get a...

Yes and no; my namesake is basically just a less cheerful version of the Gray Mouser. I've definitely been inspired by characters before; my fighters tend to have a dash of Conan. I can't help playing an elf a bit like Elric. If somebody wants to play a drow ranger inspired by Drizzt...

the first time I saw the Sun Blade published was in the 1e Unearthed Arcana, which means it was probably a magic item in an earlier published module. At the time it seemed pretty clear it was inspired by Thundarr's Sun Sword (which had been on the air only a year or two before).

Is it actually atheism the player is after-by the traditional meaning? Or perhaps what he really wants is a character who knows that gods exist but doesn't recognize their moral authority over the mortal world?

I think one of the big sticking points would be "continuous" advantage. Definitely a cantrip granting advantage or disadvantage round after round while the magic-user goes and does other things is way too powerful. Essentially, something like minor illusion ought to be good for one round's...

I don't know exactly what other people are advocating or not (at least one person is saying that advantage is too powerful to be granted from just a cantrip). I'm just saying that reading this thread has alerted me to how advantage and disadvantage are a great way to let clever play grant a...