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I was not directing my comments at you specifically, but sort of responding to the previus posts in this thread. Upon rereading said thread I realize I definitely both conflated your post with another posters and had a bit of a misconception of your "Tolkien apologists" comment as an attempt at...

Except the difference is that I am not a) insulting several well known and well loved authors of various different forms of media, of whom I am more than willing to provide a list of names that have just been mentioned in this thread alone. Hell if you want what is perhaps an unpopular opinion...

Again, you are over simplifying and reducing what you call "flavor". There have been MANY different varieties that are largely different from one another. Even "nature loving" is an INCREDIBLY broad description. Does it mean you only love forests and trees? What about animals? Fungus? Rot? Death...

As I have said in every one of my posts, it is lazy and terrible writing that is the real issue, not the existence of elves or dwarves. This is pretty much it though, we are talking with people who are so quick in their opinions to cry "Tolkien!" that anything resembling a long lived nature...

Personally I feel as though it would potentially fall under a "speak with your DM about potential campaign hurdles/build issies" umbrella. While neither the DM or player is really at fault here, it doesn't change that multiple builds are sort of sub optimized by certain types of campaigns, and...

So a few comments in this thread that are some good points, though I think people's mileage will vary on different feats usefulness. I don't think anything you've suggested would be too powerful or break anything. My only suggestion is that I would suggest you let those who take Ritual Caster...

Con save spells and grapple. If he's a Bladesinger I assume he's dex based. Can't swing a sword or cast a fireball if he has to spend all his turns and spell slots getting out of someone grabbing him.

And then risk getting called out for cultural appropriation if you are not a member of one of those cultures, if recent pleathora of threads are of any indication, albeit that is an entirely different topic of discussion. This is particularly likely to occur if one's attempt at modeling said...

I agree with you theory in theory, but having been subjected to many a terrible boring homebrew by otherwise decent DMs whose only real issue was boring and lifeless homebrew worlds, personally find it an equal trade off to use homebrew worlds, especially so if said DM isn't okay with players...

This is something I often remind my players of in most games, as monotheism (particularly Christianity and the Catholic or Baptist churches where our players live) are incredibly pervasive in every aspect of daily life to the point where many people are literally incapable of imagining a church...

Perhaps I was a bit aggressive in quoting yourself, it was not my intention to imply you said those words directly. It was, however, on theme with the thread as you described it. I VEHEMENTLY disagree with many of the points this article is trying to argue and frankly feel that at best it is...

Except even in the case of Harry Potter elves still have elements of the same mythologies that Tolkien used to create his elves. House elves are still arguably connected to fey and other sorts of magical creatures and have their own forms of magic that within setting is highly unknown to humans...

It should be noted though, that while much of what solidified some of the stuff for Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs was Tolkien, all of his versions of them were not 100% his creation, but come from much various versions of Nordic and Germanic folklore. While great to encourage diversity in settings so...

Honestly? I welcome it. Damned elves have had their fun in the spotlight long enough. Jokes aside though, I don't forsee this honestly being a huge game breaking concern. At our table we are about as cavalier with allowing alternate racials as one could be already and we have yet to see any one...

Yeah, I like the subclass conceptually, but can tell you that if it isn't a typo (like control warmer), they VERY first houserule I apply to that subclass is making those d3's a d4. The second (assuming there isn't a tweaked wild magic chart already) is to apply my houserule of wild magic I...

I like a lot of the changes suggested here. I'll probably nap the ones for Eldritch Knight and Arcane Trickster as while I don't think that they are weak, adding the option to pick two spell schools would open up more options for character diversity and be a good thing. For myself, the changes...

Exactly this. I feel a lot of the people who tend to have the "gardening" approach to storytelling (those who create characters and books and only care what emerges from the players) seem to sometimes have a fundamental misunderstanding about the benefits of "planned" storytelling approach. Yes...

Personally I have seen multiple pact of the blade warlocks, both as hexblade and celestial patron (don't underestimate a "dex pally" warlock blade build as a celestial patron). I do agree that they are slightly less survivable but I would hardly claim they aren't at least decent. As said...

Your previous post said otherwise.

Frankly speaking? The short answer is that it's not for any melee focused cleric build. A wisdom of 16 is highly gettable by 20th level no matter what you start with and is perfectly passable for most situations. You just have to rely on choosing spells that minimize the need for wisdom and...