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11th level Fighter, Variant Human: Subclass: Champion Fighting styles: Two-Weapon Fighting, Archery Feats: Dual Wielder, Sharpshooter Skills: Stealth, others chosen to taste. Stats & other feats: Chosen to taste. The melee/archery approach isn't as strong with Duelist. You choose either...

Balance on TWF for Fighters is really good. It's a strong DEX-based option.

Hmmm...I wonder if instead of imposing a level of exhaustion, I made pop-up healing consume a hit die...

TSR got paid up front by Random House for books shipped, not sold, with no real limit. They must have inked that deal back when TSR was selling books as fast as they could print them. So as long as they kept cranking out books, Williams could keep paying herself a salary & bonuses...until...

Here's how to fix TWF. KISS principle, real easy: Noticed that I fixed the Beast Master, too. Oh no, now a melee Rogue can always attack twice! I mean, I don't really care. Rogues tend to eschew melee anyway, so a buff to melee fighting isn't going to upset anyone. I'd rather give them a...

No, what we need is for the additional attack from TWF to be part of your Action, not a bonus action. It will ruin exactly nothing about the game to do this.

The 5e team seems to get actively worse at writing rules as time goes on.

Williams was both owner and chief executive of TSR. You can say, "Lorraine Williams" instead of TSR. It was her company. She made the decisions. Every decision she made basically resulted in assets flowing her way and unsustainable liabilities piling up on the corporate balance sheet. At some...

Back in the day, I was the only kid I knew who even knew what Buck Rogers was, and that was because I found an anthology on my granddad's bookshelf that he gave to me. It really isn't just hindsight. Buck Rogers in the 1980s was a nostalgia brand for the WW2 generation; there was no question of...

It wasn't fraudulent, but Williams basically used her ownership position to get the company to pay her for something she couldn't otherwise monetize, and which didn't translate into much profit (if any) for the company. It was deeply unethical. It didn't just "not work out;" it wasn't...

She bankrupted the company. I read an article about how she ran the company a while back that really made it sound like she was running a bust-out operation. There was hardly any attempt to keep revenue on any kind of sustainable footing or service liabilities; TSR under Williams was just...

Only one way to tell: push him off a 50-foot building and see if he's ok.

With a magic weapon, the monk's base attack is pretty close to a rogue's, even without doing anything cute to get a battleaxe. It does fall behind at around 11th level, but by that point, you can use Stunning Strike and Flurry of Blows a lot more often. I'm so far unconvinced that monks have a...

Yeah, anyone who needs the system to accurately emulate what it's like to fight in plate mail with a warhammer while wearing stilettos is probably not gonna enjoy D&D.

Mountain dwarf. Since Tasha's, a mountain dwarf is just "+2 to any two stats of your choice."

Even without any house rules, first time an intelligent monsters sees somebody go down and SMITES him so he doesn't get back up, players will take more pains to ensure heroes stay on their feet.

Very cool that this was not on the weapon table. :p

Do this: Trident, special property: You do not have disadvantage when attacking with a trident while swimming, regardless of whether you have a swim speed.

Simplicity isn't a bug. It's a preference. An automatic transmission is not broken because you would rather drive a manual, or vice versa. One of the features of 5e is that players with different complexity preferences can play side-by-side without those who prefer having a big spell list...

You can fix 99% of 5e munchkinism by doing the following: 1. Black out the EB description in Spells with a Sharpie. 2. Tape a copy of it in the Warlock section and write "class feature." 3. pencil in "Warlock" between "higher" and "levels."...