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My preference would have to had the -5/+10 should have just been handled like Mark: as a combat option in the DMG that everyone could access when it made sense perhaps as a part of a Called Shot system (take the ten damage or one of these effects where appropriate). The current feats that use...

If you are really shooting for doubling the length of time, you could have half levels where you gain your hit die and then gain the class features on a the whole but make the xp needed to level double and have the half levels float inbetween. . So you would start at 1st level as per usual...

I imagine the first couple of columns might collect a dozen of the most common misunderstandings of the RAW or RAI where it is clearly a case of people parsing grammar and terminology wrong to find an exploit. But really most of that kind of thing can be done on Twitter and then collected in a...

I think there is a lot of room to do Sage Advice that is in the spirit of the edition. Q: I have this issue with the "Hunter's Mark" spell... what should I do. A: Well, if you adjudicate it this way... you can probably expect this. If you rule this other way.... look out for that, but it has...

That is probably workable, you probably could do Prestige classes something like this... All of them 5 levels. Each level gives +1 to an attribute and a Prestige Class benefit You must be at least 4th level to qualify for 1st level of a prestige class (no variant humans coming in and grabbing...

I kind of wish they had included a "Magical Secrets" Feat to pick up spells outside of your class past 1st . I also realize how this would screw with niche protection. It might even make the Sorcerer a bit more attractive.... possibly overpowered with twinning metamagic which is probably why...

A quick rethink here... You probably want to set 3 minor flaws to being equivalent to 1 major flaw. Otherwise taking four minor flaws and grabbing skills à la carte would be strictly better than the Skilled feat and that is the gold standard for feat power when it comes to taking skills. I...

And the Clueless/Forgetful/Uneducated Flaw seems to be missing "with disadvantage" in the mechanic description if that was what you were intending there.

Also, are you familiar with the Fate RPG aspects/invoking/compelling mechanic? Also, do you use backgrounds from the PHB in your game? How do these flaws interact with the flaws there? Do you foresee DMs possibly granting Inspiration for using RPing the Flaws from your system?

Four is probably where you will end up though. It also leaves design space for DMs to design "moderate" flaws if they are so inclined. 4 minor flaws = 2 moderate flaws = (1 moderate flaw + 2 minor flaws) = 1 major flaw Three would still work as well though, but is a bit less elegant for...

Three would be fine, although I might be tempted to go for four to make people more tempted to take the major versions where they are available. This is a case where some playtesting with different groups of people and actual feedback from potential users probably trumps design purity. Although...

I am not really seeing the point to just taking one minor flaw since you will always be better off taking two minor flaws and getting a feat sized bonus which is always going to come with a much bigger boost to your options or will come with a +1 ability score increase. Maybe make the minor flaw...

Monthly actually could be a good thing. Rather than four or five articles describing a mass combat system, why not just have one bigger article that describes the whole thing and then the next month having an article that describes half a dozen alternate races along a certain theme rather than...

"Impossible ability checks should exist. If your team's barbarian proposes that he wants to lift a whole castle and throw it into ocean that would fall into the impossible category." When I DM, I still allow rolls for impossible ability checks, but a 1 results in a setback and a 20 results not...

"We are having a problem with our DM." I think we probably need to start there. Are you having problems with your DM outside the way he defines the way knowledge is distributed in his world? Is he having issues with the players outside of lore based skill rolls?

I am all for seeing new content, but please no "numbered" books ever if it can be helped. Even if you just called the next monster manual a Fiend Folio or a Creature Codex or whatever, I would vastly prefer that to Monster Manual 2, The same goes to for Player's Manual 2. What you gain in sales...

I probably need another five years to digest it all. I love stuff like advantage and disadvantage, concentration, backgrounds, chunky feats that replaced ability score increases that took a lot of fiddly but essential bits of the system and simplified them... still there was a lot of fiddliness...

I picked "Sci-Fi" but I would like something very baroque science fantasy ala Jack Vance or Gene Wolfe that would mesh pretty well with D&D's core assumptions rather than Star Trek or something of that ilk. Still, if a creative designer can pull off other forms while staying close to the default...

I don't think that anything would be horribly unbalanced if you and your DM got together and worked up a completely new and different spell list for your sorcerer (especially if it didn't step on any other player's niche). For one thing, the current sorcerer list is pretty much optimized for the...

I would love to see an "at-will" version of psionics, but since every class seems to now have short-rest and long-rest refreshing components, it is probably not the edition to ask for that. I guess that is probably what makes the notion so appealing to me.