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It's only a cantrip, after all. It's not easy to design a cantrip that doesn't cross the line from "sometimes useful" into "I would use this all the time". Just out of curiosity, would you use it more if it gave +5 to hit, so that it can stack with advantage?

Well, its main use is that it conserves resources. If you're thinking of a melee attack, then it's nearly always more effective to attack twice than to cast TS, then attack. But for spellcasters, TS can greatly increase the expected damage of a spell at no cost in spell slots (just time). Of...

Bas-Lag! (China Mieville)

I liked this article. The animal companion sounds more like a mini-Commune With Nature ability, which is certainly appropriate. The Beasts & Birds druid is my favorite, but all three are good.

Finnish mythology for example, which was one of Gary's inspirations.

Cleric spells are prepackaged gifts from gods or their servants, a reward for service and faith. Clerics don't need to know how they work. Are my AD&D roots showing?

I played a long campaign as a dwarf fighter/psionicist using the "complete psionics" handbook. Was my character overpowered? I don't think so, even using psionics to boost my stats I regularly got my ass handed to me by pure fighters and my one death was from a high-level rogue backstab. Did I...

Frankly, none of the items on the list thrill me. But I can forgive 4E all its sins for bringing the Warlord to my table. So I voted "Other".

Do I remember right that "defending the wall" was also supposed to come with permanent subscriber privileges?

Slots, because I don't want wizards to spam their low-level spells all day long. Points might have been OK if they were scaled differently so that a 1st level spell is still a significant fraction of the pool but they also allowed multiple 6th-9th level spells (at very high cost). For example...

I also did a quick-and-dirty genie pact for my game: Warlocks can form pacts with noble genies, most commonly a djinn or efreet. The djinn pact is similar to the Archfey pact in the PH, and the Efreet pact is similar to the Fiend pact. Djinn pact: Expanded spell list 1st level: Thunderwave...

Me too, it was a really busy time. Badge me please! Ben

I would buy: A psionics book. I don't need psionic versions of every magic-using class, and I don't even need psionic characters to have a spell point system (the slot system works well), but a handful of classes and a nice collection of psionic "spells" and monsters would be great. An updated...

I plan to let players choose 2 spells/level to represent their domain. If you want to have a spell from a supplement, swap out one of the ones from the PH. Same for druids.

Sounds like a really fun game. Good luck! A thought about the gothi: norse stories involving magic were more about learning magic than having it innately; therefore the wizard method of learning and preparing spells might be a better fit. There were a lot of secret codes going on too, such as...

If I were playing in such a game, I'd like to see magic reined in -- maybe even forbidding evocation spells. But there was a lot of powerful magic in the stories too that I would like to see come into play eventually: polymorph, powerful curses (e.g. the nidhing staff), illusions, and of course...

I couldn't find any class with Planar Binding on their spell list. :-)

5e does provide a mechanism for stacking concentration spells: potions. You could hand out a formula or two as treasure and let them spend the money and time making them if they really want them.

This old poll popped into my mind tonight, and I thought I'd write a scorecard for what made it in. Quite a lot, actually! (YES) Intelligent and Ego weapons 62.65% (YES) Strongholds 60.24% (YES) Cursed items that look like good magic items 56.02% (YES) Morale for monsters 55.42% (YES) Morale...

I'm working on a more granular rarity scale that resolves some of these issues. It will be ready for sharing in 2-3 days. Stay tuned!