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Wait, this isn't some meta-commentary about this issue, right? At least you made it to the Racial ASI war.

I'm actually starting to think that having classes which need only one ability score is a mistake. If every ability score is equally useful for every class, then it wouldn't matter as much where your ability score bonus goes. For example, if Strength sets the DCs for your spells that target...

Sight unseen, this is probably how I would make use of this material in my games to modify the +2/+1 racial ASIs, assuming compatible race/heritage and background: You can replace the +2 racial ASI with a heritage feat. You can replace the +1 racial ASI with a +1 ASI from background.

On the basis that a feat should be equal to a +2 ASI, I would like to retain the +2 racial ASI but allow it to be exchanged for a racial feat. So if your goliath wizard doesn't want +2 Strength, swap it out for a racial feat that would be more useful. For the +1 ASI, I'd like to have the...

Here are some examples of rewards (not necessarily magic items) from a paladin solo campaign I'm working on. Charms The PC earns these charms by completing rituals which are story goals in the adventure. Charm of Warding. This charm allows you to use your reaction to create a defensive ward...

IMO (and YMMV) suggestion is too open-ended and needs to be given the same treatment as command. In addition, I think suggestion should have two separate effects, depending on casting time. With a casting time of 1 action, suggestion works as an improved command. Duration is Concentration, up...

I've played D&D for a pretty long time and I guess I'm rather traditional, so I would still like to have racial ability score modifiers. However, I do see why some players might have a problem with them, either due to concerns over racism or pigeonholing races into specific classes. So, what...

One mechanic I've been thinking about is a "Class Skill" feature which works similar to the Bard's Jack of All Trades: at 2nd level, every class gets a bonus equal to half the character's proficiency bonus to all the skills they could have chosen to be proficient at 1st level that they are not...

I choose to read this as encounter power love. And to continue the sentiment expressed in another thread, 4E encounter powers were the best D&D encounter powers. ;)

Actually, I thought 4E made it really easy to adjust for the presence or absence of magic items. I don't know why the 4E team didn't make it more explicit. Maybe they weren't confident enough of their own math, or they were too invested in the philosophy that 4E should be run without tweaks...

Just for completeness, you could also define a short rest as eight hours, so that the PCs' "encounter" powers were effectively only regained daily.

Actually, I could decompose 4E healing into a number of elements, and different people may like them all, like none, or like some but not others. 1. Proportional Healing The most common ways to restore hit points involved spending a healing surge or recovering hit points as if spending a...

Anyway, here's one piece of unsolicited advice for any game designers who haven't been scared off and still want to use the "Have you eaten rice already?" greeting as a bit of flavour for an Asian-inspired fantasy culture or country. It's even based on a bit of Singapore history. During the...

He's not wrong, although the way it was explained to me when I was young was that rice was equated with food because it was so important to us.

Also anecdotally, I do eat a lot of rice, but it could just be becuase I like rice and I'm pretty spoilt for choice in my country. Practically every major ethnic group has some kind of rice dish, whether it is Indian briyani, Malay nasi lemak (rice cooked in coconut milk) or, well, Chinese...

Well, to raise an anecdotal counterpoint, I do recall "ni chi fan le ma?" (translation: "Have you eaten rice already?") being used quite frequently as a greeting when I was younger. I don't hear it so often these days, I think because the younger generation: (a) tends to speak more English; and...

Good point. Adventure hook: The PCs are out shopping and feel hungry. The DM can also add secondary motivations for the PCs by introducing a child in dirty rags staring hungrily at the pie. Lawful PCs may want to obtain the pie before the child steals it and breaks the law. Good PCs may...

Please critique my new one-shot! :LOL: An orc of indeterminate alignment wearing a flour-dusted apron and a chef's toque is standing in the marketplace next to a push-cart containing a single pie of indeterminate filling that nonetheless looks delicious. How do you obtain the pie, while being...

Hopefully, the boilerplate disclaimer also covers the Book of Nine Swords.

If my decision to retain race-based ability score adjustments in my games means that you call me racist, then so be it. I will just have to endure your poor opinion of me.