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Does it need to be a commodity? The Road of Kings or Road of Princes, works just as well, as reference to all the lands passed through rather than to the commodity. Religions travel along trade routes also, so it could be the Path of Prophets. You could pick a commodity that sounds exotic or...

I personally don't like rolling dice more for the principle of it, rather than because high stats are an issue. After all you can also end up much worse than the default array (Every single time I've rolled up a 5e character I have.) There's also the fact that when ability scores start...

Yes. This sort of thing is key to a successful dungeon I feel. Memorable dungeons are built on layers of time and metaphor.

Feats. I hate rolled stats, and if I'm playing a class system I'd generally rather lean into the classes than try and break them. But it's not all or nothing with feats. Allowing feats does not mean you have to allow all feats. There's a few feats I'd be really reluctant to ever strip out...

I don't really care if you like it. That was just one particular approach to the problem, there were a bunch of others in the same post I'm just sick of people saying the Fighter can't have Fighter appropriate social abilities and then complaining that there are no examples of such abilites...

5e really was an exercise in moving goal posts in a lot of ways. They finally gave Fighters access to more skills, but then they made skills far less impactful and gave the traditional skill monkey classes expertise to compensate.

Are they? Is the existence of an Underdark really any more justifiable then any other D&D trope?

Acolyte: Cleric the background. Outlander: Ranger or Barbarian Urchin: Rogue. At the very least if the Fighter class is meant to be independent of any background, then it ought to get an extra background to make up for the absence of background in it's class.

The other thing I'd add is that a dungeon doesn't even have to be a physical place. It could be: The palace of a dead or sleeping god on a demi-plane entered by an appropriate ritual, the palace is collapsing slowly into a more and more labyrinthine structure as the magic that sustains it runs...

I'd suggest the following references: Eyes of the Stone Thief: by Gareth Ryder Hanrahan Thirteenth Age (Shows what can be done with the living dungeon and how it intersects with the mythic underworld idea.) The Parlainth Boxed Set (Earthdawn) or Vor Rukoth (4e): The Parlainth boxed set is Robin...

How often have you seen players come to the table with a character inspired by Harry Potter?

A Song of Ice and Fire did have a massive impact on fantasy. It might not be at quite the cultural level of Tolkien, but it transformed fantasy. You can see the change in back cover blurbs. Before A Song of Ice nd Fire everyone was a new Tolkien, afterwards they're a new George R.R. Martin...

Class variant: Smite Evil. - Cross out Action Surge on your character sheet. Instead write "Smite Evil". There. Done. If you want to play a Paladin, you play a Fighter; take the Acolyte Background, Take Magic Initiate Cleric. We can get rid of the Paladin class now there is no need for it...

This solution takes too much time.

Oh for gods sake! Just admit you dislike the idea on principle. It's D&D, fun and game balance trumps realism by a factor of 100 to 1. What about Bards - when they go to bardic college to they have special warrior training sessions? (In case they need to deal with jealous partners maybe?)...

Eh. Clerics are full casters and get 1d8 hit-points and armour, Long gone are the days when this was because they traded off spellcasting. Bards also get 1d8. !d8 is basically the default level for everyone. Wizards and Sorcerers get less, but that's not really for good design reasons...

See here then. That was the third time in this very thread I gave this example.

Maybe they're noble at heart.

The irony here is that the idea that you have to explain where the Dray comes from is something of a spoiler and enshrines something in canon you might not want enshrined. If their origin is a mystery in the setting, then why not let a mystery be the explanation for their existence? I'm also...

Stances were a really good idea from 4E, that would be good to bring back. They were simple enough Essentials, so it's not as if they were especially complicated. Here's some ideas: Guardian Stance: When you hit en enemy while in this stance you may may use your reaction to make a melee attack...