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This is what I was how I was reading that as well. Essentially making double weildling a separate thing/ power. I am not sure why this is a problem. Bonus actions are not a problem at my table. The different mechanics for spells with roll to hit/save/hp thresholds cause more confusion.

There is a lot of interesting work here. I liked the flavor text under the Spriggan. The only thing missing is custom rules for crits to the knee.

I also like the nut shells for Confusion. But we dont use really use components - they dont feel magical to us - so it doesn't come up in play, even though it is fun to seem them in a read through.

Totem Warrior. The decision process is either rage on or rage off. You dont even have to think about looking at the armour section of the PHB!

I will look into this. We dont use UA in my main game. Thanks.

We run them RAW and the maths works OK but we do run into the bag of hp issue whereby many of monsters lack a bit of oomph. I think the diversity of abilities could be greater and have a few more surprises in combat.

For me this kind of kind of thought is primarily about making the fighter (and other martial characters) more tactically interesting. I am not particularly interested in realism. I would rather link to to a class ability than a property of weapons. I just think that fighting styles for fighters...

Thor is not a barbarian, I reckon he is definitely a high level tempest cleric. Iron man - an artificer I reckon Captain America is a warlord! Bring back that class ASAP :)

Agree exactly with this. We used SC in a 4e campaign from 1st to 30th level and they were an important way to push the story forward (often in ways not intended by either us or the DM) in both diplomatic and (especially) exploration contexts. While sometimes we meta gamed and cottoned on that a...

Surely you could find some hobbits outside Hamilton! But yeah they are great games. I really liked the story in NVN2, especially the concluding fight where a quarter of my party joined the other side.

Isnt the divide between Heroic Fantasy and Sword & Sorcery as much about morality as magic? Sure S&S has low magic connotations but there is also tones of grey rather than black/white morality, and moral decisions are more about personal codes than cosmological stakes.

I play 5e in a campaign that is run by the book by a kind DM with WOTC modules/adventure paths. And yes, I think it is somewhat easy. However, my group's capacity to do sub optimal things means that a TPK is always a just a cascading series of bad decisions away. By biggest issue with 5e is not...

A mix of both is important because every ranged PC needs his or her meat shield! But the the big advantage of ranged is the ability to choose where the damage goes, it makes focus fire more effective, which I find satisfying for some strange reason.

Good idea. I have to say though that everyone in my playing group (including the DM) fails their concentration check to make our characters make their concentration checks from damage. We are really bad a remembering this rule.

I think the 70% issue can be addressed by better thought out subclasses. I have never understood the spell casting ranger archetype: the idea of woodsman having to cast a spell to find plants or animals is just really strange. But I think spell casting can be an optional subclass element like...

It could be done with D&D I guess, but yes there is a large gap between the high magic style of MtG and the way they have sold D&D in 5e with a lower magic tone (than 4e anyway) and a focus on the history of D&D IP and mechanics.

Good luck! At this point is may be easier to add 4e elements (a tactical module if you will) to 5e than the other way around. I think aside from adv/disadv, another element I would borrow from 5e is rewording minor action as bonus actions, ie you only get a minor action if you have a power and...

You need the right mechanics to back the kind of story you want to tell. I was thinking that I was G2 on this scale, then I thought about some of the vagaries of some 5e rules/rulings (stealth rules for eg) and realised that I am a G4 deep down. The beauty of 5e is that it does scale well...

Interesting. Does an axe really give you a parrying benefit IRL? But I like the idea that different weapons could give different kinds of benefits. I can see a long sword giving a defensive bonus (I am not sure about two handed weapons - they seem kind of wide open on defense) but I could see an...

We keep going until we run out of Long Rest resources or all available monsters are dead! It depends a fair bit on context and how/if the DM runs wandering monsters etc - if there are dangers around then sure we might want to keep resources in reserve.