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Hasbro tried a merger with Mattel and it didn't work. I doubt Hasbro wanted to be acquired by a bigger company if they lost the creative freedom or the controll over the IPs, and today Disney isn't in its best moment. Microsoft? its own videogame studios can create new franchises from zero. Elon...

To say what is wrong is not enough. We should suggest other options to fix or improve. And we have to explain the reasons, for example I can say I would rather 3.5 Draconomicon because paying less I had got more pages of crunch, player options and monsters. The IPs based in TTRPGs work in a...

Somebody would be happy with only the update of the crunch and the unlocking in DM Guild. Do you remember the book "the little prince"? WotC doesn't want to sell us the "picture of a little lamb" but "the picture of a box that contains a little lamb inside". DS is post-apocaliptic but not too...

Hasbro would like collabs in D&D like Magic: Beyond Universe but this isn't so easy. Most players aren't going to buy a new starter set and most of franchises can't be adapted to D&D easily, even most of isekai animes the main characters usually are broken or overpowered for the D&D standars...

Maybe the campaign played by the characters from "Stranger Things" could become a new canon D&D setting. Multiplayer online videogames are a risky bet today. If a Power Rangers-Fortnite collab has been possible, maybe there are possibilities for a D&D-Fortnite. I guess most of you live in a...

I would like subclasses could be chosen at level 1, to feel my PC is special from the first moment. Maybe the solution could be something like an "origin feat", some bonus if you have joined to some guild or you belong to some clan or noble house. It would be mainly a bonus for certain social...

If a player wanted to start like a templar who only to be wanted to be honest defender of law and order and later he opens the eyes and rebels against the system the DM should allow it. Why a SK-patron warlock who rebels against her previous patron doesn't lose her spells? Maybe this warlock...

Shardminds are psionic living constructs. I am afraid they weren't wellcome for lots of players for DS because if they don't need food and water to survive then this could break the power balance. My suggestion is to add some handicap. Free sentient constructs aren't allowed in the urban areas...

The magic from "Ars Magica" was "verb+name", for example a fireball would be "(I) create fire". It wasn't class levels or spell-slots at all.

There is a premise that interests me quite a bit and that is that of heroes gradually ascending towards divinity. The "aspirant" would be a little like the living idols from al-Qadim but working like the "spellpool" from the prestige class "Mage of the Arcane Order". Maybe a low-level believer...

5e doesn't nPCs with class levels, I guess because enemy spellcasters spend all the spells in only one encounter and this could break the power balance, but I dare to say in 5e factions whose agents can be "different" are wellcome. I guess if WotC wants to add some touch of metaplot in the...

"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape". Some tyrants are enoughly smart to pretend to be the defenders of the freedom and saviors of the people, and more one believes him. In the real life some...

The metaplot should be a source of inspiration for new stories but there is a risk iconic characters to become the stars and the rest of heroic groups to fall into the oblivion. Today with internet you don't need to spend money to know the metaplot. And this becomes obsolete if there is a new...

Maybe the 5e will be softer but this shouldn't mean to betray its original essence. Let's use this example, the comic "marvel zombies" where our favorite supeheroes eat people. We know they are one of the gorest titles published by Marvel. Could they appear in the Disney+ animated show "What...

It is understandable that authors express their own views in their works, but compared to others, I do not feel that I have spent my money to suffer propaganda that tries to make me feel guilty if my own opinion differs from that of the author. Maybe D&D isn't 100% ideologically neutral but...

I guess the original message of the DS from the 90s was we have to be responsible with caring for the environment because future generations will suffer the consequences of our actions. Comparing with others D&D has been a relatively ideologically neutral, and I would rather this to be like...

The Athasian genasi were canon in 4e: ember, magma, sand and sun The ancient rhustili didn't need biopunk technology to survive in the dessert but the rhul-tan from the Jagged Cliffs could investigate with the lifeshaping for example with a machina that purifies the water. This detail may be...

Now I am thinking about a fantasy punishment used by the SKs. The criminals suffer a special dark ritual to become elementals, and these used to animate magitek machines. The ritual doesn't work so good with the souls of innocents because after a short time of "penance" soon they recover their...

We could see a "Wanderer's guide of the Shatered Lands" with a chapter about geography and the city-states, other chapter about PC species and the rest a monster compedium. Other option could be a generic sourcebook about post-apocaliptic campaigns and Athas would be only a chapter. This would...