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I think humanoid means you are subject to the range of emotions that humans in the real world are capable of feeling. The emotional spectrum of a fey elf would be different than a humanoid elf, even if they appeared the same (I highly recommend CJ Cheryl's excellent Foreigner series of books...

I work under the assumption that D&D assumes a training-based model--you get more STR, INT, CON, DEX, CHA, or WIS because you work at it, and hopefully you get a little bit of joy in the work. Casting a spell to do what you enjoy instead of doing it seems like a bad deal ("I'm going to cast a...

According to the DMG, there are plenty of celestial elves hanging around Arborea. I think "you are really a celestial, fey, or fiend, but everyone thinks you are humanoid" (or more officially Extraplanar Origin) sounds like a good background with the "roll a d8" table for why you are slumming...

If you had good charisma, why would you need or even want to use skeezy magic to get people to do what you want? What motivation could there be to do so? I really good at talking people into doing what I want, but I am not going to do that, because? I know I have just totally invalidated the...

I like the "pestered by your guardian angel" bit for aasimar in 5e, but I have to admit, it could easily be made a little more generic ("pestered by a guardian angel/your ancestors/some weird thing from the Far Realm/a fey that your parents owned a debt to/tempting fiend") and made into a...

I was surprised when I read Planar Ally and saw that it wasn't on the warlock's mystic arcanum list and managed to stay off it when they updated what spells where on class lists (one of the first things I homebrewed was to add it to the warlock's list). If they had at least made it a ritual...

I hope they replace the "summon 16 CR 1/8 minions" spells with "summon 1 swarm" spells where the swarm gets bigger if you use a higher-level spell. Who really ever needed one dretch or lemure anyway? I would also like them to expand who gets access to planar ally (possibly even adding a...

If you are going to stick races into monster manuals, then I want more things like Orc Eye of Gruumsh, Gnoll Fang of Yeenoghu, and especially the Drow Arachnomancer--extra-special evil, extra-special good, extra-special lawful, or extra-special chaotic. I would rather have more things like...

There really weren't any "class-specific" spells in 5e, magic initiate and the bard killed that idea from the PHB on, and I don't see that changing in 1D&D. What they could do is give every sorcerer subclass a table like the wild magic sorcerer, and have something dragon-y, stormy, or shadowy...

If you look at people who are "naturals" at magic in fiction, most of them have great (almost subconscious) sensitivity to magic, which makes me think the sorcerer would be better as a wisdom caster. Since wisdom gets caught up in religious and nature-based casting, D&D has never dug deep into...

Version 7.0x on the front page has all the races from the AAG, the magic items and spells from chapter 2 of AAG, and the first two ships.

I think I am coming around to that idea, but the idea of backwards compatibility probably dooms it. That being said, once you get past "the class isn't called sorcerer" (I swear 3x has a lot to answer for), then warlocks solve 90% of sorcerer problems: once you have EB, you can save your...

From what I recall of the pictures of the guardinals in 2e, they were more "that guy makes me think of a lion" in the same way that people resemble their pets than "that guy literally has a dog head for a head", which always worked with how I saw NG.

I tend to go viking with my orcs. Most of the time they are running farms (Gruumish was originally an agricultural god), and if you encountered an orc farm or an orc town, the orcs there are pretty much the same as any other humanoid. The orc lands are not rich in mineral wealth, so they go...

Version 7.0w on the front page has all the monsters of CR 4 or less from Legendary Games Sea Monsters, the backgrounds from the Astral Adventurers Guide (AAG), and the races alphabetically through the Giff from the AAG.

I like added subclass spell lists and to make sorcery points only good for fueling subclass features. In 4e they tried to break the "sorcerer vs. wizard" thing by giving sorcerers a different role than wizards, and in the 5e playtest, they tried to make them into more gishy casters than...

Paizo made agathions that way to differentiate them from guardinals. I don't see WotC encroaching on Paizo's turf for that (although there will be a Pathfinder Kingmaker Bestiary for 5e {Pathfinder Kingmaker Bestiary (Fifth Edition) (5e): Corff, Jeremy, Grady, Robert J, Hitchcock, Tim, Ibach...

I am all for exotic races, but I think a "martial sorcerer" class where you hit harder because your daddy was a god or an angel or your grandma was a giant or a demon would be a better way to fill the concept (we already have the sorcerer to deal with "your dad was a {fill in the blank}, so you...

Considering they have managed not to have anything at all about Guardinals in 5e so far, I am just happy they exist. That being said, I have no doubt that aasimar will show up sooner than later.

Version 7.0v on the front page has the monster from the 3rd story of Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel and all the monsters of CR 3 or less from Legendary Games Sea Monsters.