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This is the downside of tossing subraces. They have to reprint 8,878 different elves with the same repeated trance text. I generally liked the race + subrace paradigm of original 5e but I can see how going back to the old system of every single subrace getting its own full write-up...

Rune Knight is the only subclass I've played twice. It really depends on what you're fighting and where you're standing. If you can't get into melee, you're better off popping damage resistance or storm giant trance. If you're facing enemies that will force saves, the trance might take...

Its certainly not completely useless and I did spam it once in the campaign against enemies hiding in fog. Honestly, I sort of wish it was a bonus action. There a lot of bonus actions in the game that it competes with, and that sucks, but if I'm a caster I almost never want to use it as an...

I played the playtest chromatic dragonborn for months and the thing is that the breath weapon is still just bad compared to whatever else you have available most of the time - and this final version is nerfed on top of that. I was a fighter and I almost always attacked with melee because it was...

Spelljammer has always intrigued me but I had never read the books when they first came out. I'd been thinking about adapting the setting to run in 5e and bought some of the original stuff on PDF. I've been trying to envision exactly how you'd run a game with phlogiston everywhere and it seems...

I hope they give it the treatment like they did Ravenloft - better hooks and more evocative lore.

Following the cast of CR, seeing their interviews, following their shows, etc., I'm of the impression that they are the most mature, genuine and compassionate type of adult humans. They are the exact type of folks I want to see succeed over toxic social media leeches.

A knight fighting dragons, sure, but it's hard to imagine a knight with dragon powers being remotely close to a dragon-themed martial artist in pop culture as far as representation. It's not that there isn't room for more dragon themed subclasses, it's that the dragon monk is far and away the...

"It's not DnD anymore," is always a funny lamentation. I remember getting into running the game with 3e and people complaining that it wasn't DnD because they completely overhauled saving throws, racial class limits, spell casting times, creature types, et al. Every time they change anything...

Jeremy's rationale for the subclasses is completely solid though. Of all of the classes - fighter, cleric, barbarian, etc. - the dragon-based martial artist is literally the only one in the whole scope of DnD that is a common trope in popular culture. It's the only concept that exists broadly...

This is what happened in 4e when my group started letting players just pick whatever ability score bonuses fit their character instead of the hard-coded racial ones. Suddenly, we had a range of builds and concepts instead of the same race+class combos over and over. This is change is all upside...

If they completely erased alignment, I would probably keep playing for 10 years without noticing.

The Far Realm is so alien that you go insane if you see it. If it's reduced to 'just' a scary adventure site, the entire concept is pretty much defenestrated. Even in 4e when they wanted to make every plane into an explorable zone they didn't touch the Far Realm in order to keep the fundamental...

Ravenloft has been retconned into the Shadowfell, right? I'm still guessing that this a Shadowfell adventure, in the same way that the Witchlight thing is a Feywild adventure. I can't imagine the Far Realm working, since it's supposed to be so alien that no one can describe it or exist there.

Tell me that dragonborn were underpowered without telling me that they were underpowered, Jeremy.

This isn't bad and you could just stipulate that it requires that you expend a slot for it to work so that you're not stuck healing but it takes up resources each time you use it.

Drop the temp hp whole-cloth and replace it with something that makes more sense for the concept of twilight. Keep the ability to remove the frightened or charm condition, but as a reaction you can obscure an ally from an attack targeting it, give the attack roll disadvantage. At higher...

I think dropping all PHB spells from monster stat block is a huge boon, I won't mind a nerf to players with magic resistance, and I'm not going to miss counterspell cheese where 3 PCs are shutting down the boss every round. On the other hand, I see how it gets weird when you do this mid-stream...

Don't you touch my hexblade3/echoknight17!

Yeah. It's definitely a subjective aspect of how much you expect the game to provide as far as fluff. Personally, I reflavor a bunch of stuff with every character, often renaming and refluffing class and race abilities to fit the narrative I've come up with. This is the whole reason I play...