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So it's from Critical Role? I didn't know that. I find it sort of annoys me as a player. I can see how it might appeal to many, but it almost feels anti-climactic. These days if I'm going to describe something I want the desription to matter in some way.

I think Goliaths could definitely fill the halfling's slot. They haven't even replaced halflings yet and we already have threads about how no one plays them and they don't really have a niche. So they should fit right in.

Whatever it is you think I was implying I wasn't.

Midgard is a setting that actually does something with them. In fact, now I'm curious if Midgard does something interesting with halfings - since I'd consider Midgard as basically the gold standard in D&D settings of recent time.

I've yet to actually see a Dragonborn being played (and that included 4e). Not that it means anything.

Modrons have always been terrifying. The fact that they are often shown as cute or funny has never been an impediment. Kafka's writing is in a comic mode.

Obviously halfling monks have gained a mastery of ninjutsu so complete that no one even knows they exist. Which obviously means that secretly they control the world.

Someone should write such a game. It would probably do well.

No. But when I was running a game for players I didn't know I just banned Warlocks, and it would probably work to do it again.

I reckon there'd be a lot more interest in playing forest gnomes if they could actually shapechange into small beasts and not just speak with them. Such creatures are often depicted as able to change shape in folkore. Talking to beasts was probably enough for 1e, but in modern D&D, it's...

Grease specifically is fine balance wise because all it does it make it slightly easier for the PCs who do lots of damage to do that damage. Accuracy is already high so advantage is not really as much as a big deal as it may sound (unless you're fighting something overlevelled or with unusually...

If you played one of these characters why would your character be a (willing) servant of hell? The gnomes made the bargain out of desperation and necessity. Surely the obvious character hook is to play a character seeking to find a way to both void that bargain while also ensuring that Baba...

I think they're more tragic than they are 'edgelord'.

Wrong thread

I think it helps to say to the player "say, on the off chance this campaign really takes off, everyone really gels and it just goes on and on and becomes a campaign that everyone just wants to come back to... ...How do you think you will feel about still playing Baby Groot in five years?

Wizards don't need to maintain their 1st level spell slots. The low level slots need to disappear as they level up, so they are spending higher level spells if they wish to have this effect. (Or if that seems counter-intuitive it's not that they lose slots, it's that their slots upgrade - like...

The issue here is that it means a specific thing and sounds weird out of that context. It's not, so far as I'm aware a word that has an afterlife apart from it's meaning of slave soldier in service to the Ottoman Sultan. (Surely it's not that obscure?) c.f. Myrmidon, a word that was used a...

There's a really interesting taking on Gnomes in Kobold Press's Midgard Setting.

How many of those references to Dwarves say they built something in the past?

And no doubt a higher percentage of players and GMs read the mechanics than the background lore. God knows I haven't read most of the lore in the PHB, or if I have it's just sunk into the morass of background knowledge. I certainly couldn't tell you what specifically what it says about Dwarves...