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Don't worry! You don't need Elves. People will still call them "elf-games". And Satanist. And many other things :D

At least two days, no matter how you cut it, more if the DM mandates the minimum rest time be applied between "work days" That minimum was based on the highest level spell to be memorized (i.e. 12 hours for 9th level) and you needed a 1/4 hour extra per level of the individual spells. The first...

Do a word count and get back to me on the volume of information. Reorganize and strip it down and it will still be long. That's just imho, and we apparently disagree on that. And that's OK :) Sorry, I might have been thinking of someone else. No, I was. My apologies. The game I figured out...

I'm not saying it couldn't benefit from reorganization. I'm saying that no matter what you do to it, the sheer volume of information people require from the PHB will prevent it from being "easy". If you cut classes, races, spells etc. it will be met with "outrage" from the people whose favorite...

And I agree with him. I think it could be a bit easier... but easier is relative. Anything with the pile of information in a PHB is not going to be "easy peasey". You could streamline it, provide sidebars / flowcharts etc. but the sheer amount of information which the bulk of fans want in the...

I'd say drop all the races (insert different name here) in the PHB. Information about the races role in the game, relations to other races, cultural / environmental niche and details like that might be a good fit for the DMG. I tend to view the setting as the dominant factor in what races are...

I have used social class backgrounds (based on race and class) and nationality (in my setting) going back to 1E / 2E. I connected Background Skills / Non Weapon Proficiencies from 1E and 2E to social class origins. Players either picked their background or rolled on a chart based on their chosen...

From my cold dead hands! And that's when the fight really starts :D

I've had players who didn't want to know too much about the world. I usually involve them by having them "build" what they should be most familiar with, their homes. I look over the PCs classes, backgrounds etc. and come up with something they would all have in common. I'll tell them, for...

That's in the 1E DMG, page 39. I got this puppy out of the box of 1E books the other day :) edit In original D&D it was a bit... undefined. The Greyhawk supplement (1975) gave a minimum and maximum number of spells that a magic user could know based on Intelligence. I took the minimum to be how...

Really? I'm just saying the price of your high level power is being weak at low level. Seems pretty straightforward to me. To get to the promised land you have to labor in the low level trenches of vulnerability.

Any band which titled an album "Big Lizard in my Backyard" is good for a module :)

I'd say Sleep or Magic Missile. Shield was good (for them) and other spells had some utility (Read Magic). Smart players kept them around for when they turned that corner and got 3rd level spells. Magic users went from weaklings to wonders at about 5th level. That was the price of that power you...

No, he has a chance. He just needs to keep Shield ready, and more importantly hide behind the meat shields in the party :D A first level magic user was good for a one shot spell (hopefully Sleep) and being a pack mule; no armor = ability to carry a lot of stuff. This assumes they were a smart...

It's part of numerous titles. By itself it isn't a title. The point being there are other choices, say "ecclesiarch" that might be better. People have to know the definition / usage you have before they understand what the point is. I'd say, state it and find fewer arguments and more...

Patriarch was the term in question, but patriarchy certainly relates to it. In short it's an academic usage of the term (patriarchy as an oppressive male dominated society), becoming more widespread. To an extent. I have 80 students taking History B-17A this semester (U.S. History to...

That dark rabbit hole is not what I'm talking about. At the core of it is a matter of definitions. When two people are arguing about a term with different personal definitions they are talking past each other about different things. My objection to the use of terms like "patriarch" has nothing...

Arch is a part or numerous titles. Monarch, patriarch, matriarch, hierarch, archduke, archbishop, ecclesiarch, and so on. It indicates a position of power or influence over something. It has other meanings as well of course, but the above is the use in this framework. So if you object to...

So... Patriarch / Matriarch? edit As for the use of those old titles to set up NPC types for 5E, why not? I prefer NPC classes myself, but then they have been a thing (either in the Strategic Review / The Dragon / Dragon) or in later editions (3 / 3.5) for a long time.

I don't think anybody, except perhaps you, thought this was "a significant barrier" to new players. Just an interesting example of numerous minor barriers, and one that is just blindly accepted by the experienced user base. And yes, everything is easier when you understand the basic flow of the...