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I'm running a 1st to 20th game with the Player's Handbook ranger - no hacks, no house rules, and no subclasses or spells from other books. The party is at level 8 at the moment, one of my players is playing a Beast Master, and neither of us have run into any issues yet. She's having a blast, and...

My advice for playing the most optimized character you can, especially with those stats, would be to just single-class paladin. Prepare a variety of control spells with that 20 charisma, and just be a two-trick, melee and support spellcasting pony. I don't know if you have a subclass picked...

Multiclassing is an optional rule.

Oh man, the number of times someone with an 8 strength has asked me if they could climb up a cliff with Dexterity (acrobatics)... I do pretty rigidly keep difficult situations encountered while climbing, jumping, swimming solely within the purview of Athletics, but since I do Acrobatics so...

I heard an immense outcry from a few folk when they learned they'd be losing their lightsabers, including one who said his character would literally become unplayable if he lost his sunblade, and i was so confused by that. How? How do you manage to build an entire character around one magic...

They took non-magical armor off the list, from what i can tell. The only TP-to-gold option is 50 gp for a treasure point.

Those poll questions are a tad biased in tone, but no - i'd really prefer not to have to accommodate for Eberron's particular flavor in a game i'm running that's set in the Forgotten Realms.

My parties almost always take at least one short rest, and we usually get two in per long rest. I flit between using the standard rest lengths and the "gritty realism" variant from the DMG for rest lengths, choosing which depending on the campaign - always with the aim of making sure there's...

True, but it's not "new". It's a prequel. The canon it's working with and establishing more of is two editions old at this point, maybe even three?

Kalashtar can't get perma-advantage to perception. That feature can only apply to Insight, Intimidation, Performance, and Persuasion.

It's not a disruptive item at all, but it is technically not an item that is supposed to exist. Mithral armor and +X armor are separate items, so i reckon this is just housekeeping.

True, but you can obtain spell scrolls with treasure points, and if you need to be raised from the dead, you can have that scroll cast on your behalf for free. So while a raise dead is prohibitively expensive if you are paying for it with gold, it is only 4 treasure points at any level. And...

Currently both the games I run we are all women, and it's so refreshing. I'm not opposed to the idea of having non-women at my table, but i'd be lying if i said the bar isn't higher than it was for them now.

I mean, there was the Nentir Vale, 4th edition's default campaign setting, in 2008. That was fresh and new and challenged a lot of the stale assumptions and people reacted so strongly against it that i don't think they'll ever try making a new setting ever again.

Fire in the Blood? Yeah, of course it is. Erin Evans worked with Ed Greenwood on the details, and it was published by Wizards of the Coast. Her series is mentioned in the Dungeon Masters Guide and one of the books provides the header quote for tieflings in the Player's Handbook.

A mountain dwarf monk who wears armor and fights with a greatsword.

Transsexual & transgender elves were already canon in my games and settings (even the ones set in official settings like the Forgotten Realms) As are trans humans, trans dwarves, trans orcs, trans tieflings, etc. Some of my players are trans, so of course they can find themselves (and people...

I hate that Skills being decoupled from Abilities for the purposes of ability checks isn't a core rule, but a variant one. That's it really.

Wisdom and Strength. They need to maintain a presence on the battlefield, first and foremost. Strength to resist physical crowd control, and wisdom to resist mental and magical crowd control.

For the last game I ran and the game I am preparing to run: no, I do not allow variant humans. I do allow feats, just not variant humans. Standard humans, while underrated, are incredibly robust and powerful, and my players have a lot of fun being those humans too. I honestly haven't seen...