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If you are willing to put in all that extra work, then cool. Glad it works for you! I personally don't have nearly the patience to do all that extra work for which to me is no appreciable gain, LOL! I don't care nearly enough about any of my game worlds to worry about stuff like that. Bad...

Then don't buy them. It doesn't matter if you do or don't.

But they don't. So why get worked up about something that one cannot change? That's a waste of energy. Rather than spending time complaining that the mage NPC has a couple magical effects that aren't PHB spells, one would be better suited using those 90 seconds to just change the statblock to...

🤷 Well, I see the game as completely full of these inconsistencies, so I can't get worked up about one more. I mean after all... look at almost every single magical trap or the dozens upon dozens of magical items that don't merely replicate a spell that appear in all the published adventures...

Needless to say, I disagree. But that's fine.

If it really mattered that much to the player that they get this "magic spell" that the NPC had that they didn't, then I'd write it up the effect as a spell and let them have it. No big deal. And if I felt the spell needed "re-balancing" or "re-leveling" or any of that stuff as part of writing...

I can understand the desire or want to have more / different NPC statblocks, and there's nothing wrong with that desire. But I personally also think there's no reason why any (general) DM shouldn't be able to or want to go out and get others elsewhere if WotC didn't provide it. Such a simple...

This is where I would usually tell my players that the three core D&D rulebooks are not the end-all-and-be-all representation of any world's reality. The spells and magic in the PHB are not the only magic that exists in the "world" or "setting". How do we know? Because if it was... no spells...

Yeah, but so what? So they come here and complain about it. That's what places like this are here for. Nothing wrong with complaining about it, just like there's nothing wrong with other people coming in to say why they think their complaints are kind of silly. As a veteran player (general)...

Unfortunately I think too many veteran players out here have this odd need or desire to always want to "play RAW" for whatever antiquated reason. And if the D&D game they want to play isn't supported by the current books they want to use... then the writers of said books did something wrong...

I disagree. Because I do not think in this day and age we can assume new players are that stupid. First of all... I do not think most new players are going to have nearly the same sort of issues with "NPCs look like PCs" that so many of our veteran players here are so annoyed about. THEY want...

I'm saying you can't speak for other people as though what you say on their behalf is in fact true. Because that isn't "discussing" things, it's just more or less white lying. You know your opinions on a subject. You can and should give your opinions on a particular subject, because indeed...

Best case scenario with things like Warlock patrons is that the player works with the DM to find ones appropriate for the setting the DM is using and subclass the player has chosen. There's no reason why a DM needs to go out of their way to insert a patron the player just invents... but by the...

Well, if you can only go off the experience you've had... why do you keep trying to speak for every other DM out there? This is what you said further up... How do you know how many GMs don't know about the fixes or refuse to consider them or might consider them but focus on other things? You...

Worrying about balance is overrated. Make an NPC. If the party decides to attack said NPC for whatever reason, then the NPC might die, might be a good fight, or might kill a PC or two. All valid options. But worrying about trying to hit the "might be a good fight" bullseye every single time...

You've had two entire 5E playtests to try and get WotC to make you wanted and they didn't do it, and then you have had over 10 years to do it yourself if you really wanted it that badly or go find someone else who HAS done it that you could then use. None of that has happened. I'm sorry that...

In the PF game I'm playing in, one of the players has a pair of human Sorcerers... a draconic and a fey. And their PCs have evolved throughout the campaign to become more of both. So the bloodline thing does lend itself to interesting stories if one follows it along. Unfortunately many 5E...

What kind of help do you need? Help from people to get WotC to actually do what you want? That's not going to happen. If you want something in the game... you put it in yourself. It's as simple as that.

I agree with you on this. The original 5E14 Sorcerer made it seem like one got sorcery from two different ways... either they had the blood of a highly-magical creature (a dragon) within them and thus that highly-magical creature's blood allowed the person to manifest magic... or they could...

Well, I hope you have successfully worked out your solution and have instituted it into your games. There's no better place for them! :)