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I always find these threads endlessly fascinating... because I have/do none of this. Mostly. I mean if I'm running something with a very specific theme then maybe I say to my players "Hey, for this one the idea is that you're an all-human party because *insert reasons*." But that's few and far...

I'm also going to suggest the Valor Bard. You'll be able to dip into melee combat without fear of outclassing those who've dedicated themselves to it. Your magical secrets feature comes later than a Lore Bard so while your spell list is still versatile you won't be able to poach as many choice...

Drinking the "wiz juice"? Listen here buddy, what a person does in the privacy of their own home is no business of yours. I'll drink all the wiz I want! Anyway... I disagree. I've rated the thread terrible. I've done all I can do. Carry on fella.

Typical UA stuff. That is to say I like what I see but it needs a little tweaking. I especially like the Primeval Guardian. And to those mentioning the Scout knowing thieves cant and it not being thematic: you realize it's a ribbon ability, right? Your character needs to neither speak it nor...

I do what makes sense for the narrative and it's really as simple as that. I've never understood this fairly black & white approach so many groups use where it's either the player is there so the character is or the player isn't so the character is now suddenly missing or incapacitated. And...

First purchased and first run: Curse of Strahd. Everything prior has been homebrew, from when we started during 2e, through 3e and even a one-off for 4e. Until recently I never had the urge to play any of the published adventures, but now they're too convenient for me to pass up when one...

Speaking only for myself, if a player opted to have a mechanical raven, owl or other similar smaller beast for their clockwork buddy I'd let them in a heartbeat. When. You can have a giant bat (flying mount perhaps?), a saber-toothed tiger, a dire wolf, so on and so on... and you pick a raven...

I like this. It's flavorful, especially the mechanical servant bit. I'd be interested to see how balanced it is in the long-term, especially with the ability to break the amount of attuned items, but there's nothing immediately glaring to me other than that. The six items at level 20 and +1 to...

Banshee 11 Ghost 19 Ghoul 17 Lich 23 Mummy 22 - An underrated classic Revenant 1 - DIE Skeleton 14 Shadow 21 Spectre 17 Vampire 16 Wight 23 Wraith 21

Steering clear of the debate between whether this is a lazy move by WotC or not, because quite frankly I have neither the time nor the energy to argue with people who seem to feel more strongly about it than I ever could, I'll say this: I'm going to buy this. It'll be the my only other purchase...

There once was a necromancer named Xed His minions were vile undead With great zeal and devotion He'd set plans in motion "Now let there be copious bloodshed!" That's all you're getting from a phone post. ;)

Thanks for bumping this. It's a really creative idea and if my group gets together at all this month I know I'll be down a player or two, so this could make the perfect one-off while I put CoS on hold until our January session. I saw someone else had mentioned a troll at a bridge to emphasize...

I checked, that the giant spiders webs only have 5hp and are vulnerable to fire would imply to me that they're at least a little flammable. Whether or not that means damage to characters being freed with fire is up to you. What sounds like the most fun to you? What do you think your players...

Ideas like this are always interesting and I think make for good experimental house rules, but it's something I could never do and certainly not the kind of thing I'd ever like to see change in the published core game. When you think of D&D there are certain things that come to mind immediately...

Run the game the way you normally would? Maybe play your monsters and villains in as "realistic" a way possible, which may include beating the PCs into near-submission, Druid included. But don't try and "make a point". Seems meaningless to me because as you say, any DM can kill the PCs on a...

So there's a lot of good advice here, but there's one area I'm going to go in a slightly different direction: AC. Depending on your DM having an astronomical AC like some builds are capable of can be a detriment to "drawing aggro" the way you seem like you may want to. On my side of the screen...

I'll give you all due credit for trying the system as both a player and now as a DM. It's unfortunate that you dislike the edition so much, I like it quite a bit as do my players, but then again there's absolutely nothing wrong with disliking any edition of the game or any other game system for...

I think the phrase "endless stream" is what's causing all the confusion here. If you meant that you simply wanted someone to point you in the direction of a more stripped down version of the game you could have chosen your words a little better is all. I'm glad some people caught on and pointed...

I can only echo what a lot of people have already said: a zen archer, a drunken master and some sort of strength or grappling focused monk would be my top three picks. Perhaps a blind fighter and a kensai would round out the bunch. If we got some combination of those options I'd be pretty content.

I see what you did there. :p And as for my answer, I could take it or leave it. I'm not sure what a new one would give me that I really need.