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I think sidebars with advice on what changes to make for each level would be cool. And how common should be a common magic item etc.

Not even the gods of evil would allow such a monstrous abomination to be born. Humans, elves, and orcs obviously have sufficient common genetic heritage to produce offspring. But don't mate an elephant and a pig and expect to get a piggyphant.

Yes, a more accurate description for sure. A world with the Circle of Eight is not low magic in the traditional sense. Also, I agree that the amount of magic found in monster lairs has always been ludicrous.

I think you misunderstand Greyhawk's version of low magic. The PCs can still be magical but the world isn't. The PC cannot pop along to the local wizard school in the village to stock up on potions. Nations have a court wizard or two, and some of the larger nations even have wizards among...

I limited the raise dead/resurrection spells to priests of the gods of death. Nerull might return you life in exchange for another life (material component another intelligent creature who is sacrificed as part of the spell) and Wee Jas will return you to life in exchange for a suitably...

Yeah, Tiamat was a real world goddess so Gygax didn't 'make her female'. Also, she was less powerful than Bahamut because the evil dragons were less powerful than the good ones. It wasn't a gender thing. With regard to female strength caps, 1e was not like 5e, because you rolled for your...

Facebook, depressingly. I think perhaps I see the discussions because I weighed in on some of the debates about the Little Mermaid, the Marvels, Madame Web, and She-Hulk. It's also quite interesting to see the level of discussion about polarising figures like Amber Heard or Meghan Markle...

D&D was in a quasi medieval setting based on pulp fantasy tropes, fairy stories, myths and legends. There were a lot of sexist tropes in those stories - the women tend to suffer and the men tend to rescue - and many still criticise Disney for making its princesses too independent even today -...

It would break bounded accuracy. The advantage is that it can be worn if you have a lower strength, I guess.

As long as they don't try to stomp on Anna's incredible map and heraldry projects, I will be happy.

I wanted my shadow sorcerer to get an update too. I have missed shadow magic but it has not escaped my notice that the illusionist class feature to conjure phantasmal creatures is basically a version of shadow monsters. Maybe something akin to that, costing a reduced spell point cost is doable.

Basically yeah. Wizard and cleric spells were not bundles of status effects back in those days, they were spells that had appeared in fairy stories, legends, classic movies, and religious texts. I loved that you could point to the origin of a spell. But because wizards in those stories were...

I think minor at-will magic would have been enough to make low level wizards playable. As it was you had to spend a level 1 spell to gain 3 cantrips which did largely nothing. Being able to halve damage from missile attacks would have saved so many wizards. It cut both ways though. How many...

We didn't so much avoid them. We usually started with two level 1 characters each and one of them was usually a wizard. The wizards just didn't last that long. No at will magic and AC 8 - 10, they usually died swinging a dagger somewhere between levels 1 and 5. 2HD for rangers at level 1 was...

Yeah we usually had a fighter then a fighter-thief, fighter-magic user, cleric, and sometimes thief. Magic-users and monks just kept dying. Rangers were cool if you could qualify. Paladins and druids were very rare on account of the charisma requirements. Assassins were more common...

Is there design space to customise battlemasters more along the lines of particular fighting techniques? Possibly special enhanced battlemaster manoeuvres that you get if you pick a silo of standard manoeuvres might be cool, so if you pick 3 out of the various warlord manoeuvres, you gain...

I think it is possible to play a version of 5e that fits with the traditional play style of a bunch of martials adventuring with one (possibly multiclassed) spell caster. I think they should address how to achieve this in an official sidebar for guidance. There is a lot of variation in most of...

Would it be a sensible compromise to only give the warlock the third attack akin to the War Priest so that it requires a bonus action?

3e Tome of Magic had some great flavourful shadowcaster spells that you might be able to tie into invocations maybe? They fitted into at will, short rest, and long rest from what I recall.

My character is exactly this and I have been mixing and matching to try and retain the flavour. I ended up multiclassing into sorcerer but even there, there are just none of the classic shadow spells in 5e. What's the word on Eldritch Blast? Class feature based on warlock level or class...