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Degree is a factor, but I can argue that even a local military could have specialized techniques they learned for specific situations. For example, the the Borderwatch guards frequently fight against orc raiders on hogback, they may gain abilities that give them advantage vs orcs and to dismount...

First, bold to assume all possible factions or cultures are available, or you would gain the features of them. For example, you can claim heritage from a Vistani tribe, but you will never gain the same prophecy or Evil Eye abilities NPC Vistani have. You can try to emulate them with spells, but...

$150 is already a steep buy in for DMs. You're shooting for $200 plus?

Bold is emphasis. A drow can be a unique cleric of Lolth that has abilities a PC cleric wouldn't have. I have no problem extending that logic to other classes. An elf swordsman who dedicated 200 years to the art of the blade can do things a PC elf isn't able to do. The assassins of the...

Bullocks. I've seen 5e players expend every resource and lose and I've seen AD&D fighters solo dragons. The only time I see OS players too weak to muscle though is if the DM is gimping them or you are playing Basic Red Box RAW. Again, I won't argue modern PCs aren't more powerful, but I don't...

I beg to disagree. At levels 1-4 I will admit that OS PCs are far weaker than their modern counterparts, but come about 5th level OS players usually have enough power to start muscling though any reasonable challenges. Magic items, better gear, and third level spells usually start evening the...

Never really liked her. She felt very tryhard. I didn't mind she was a woman in gamer space or used her sexuality to gain fans, but I never shook the feeling she was in it for the wrong reasons. When all the stuff broke about her and her husband, I can't say I was surprised. Did she ever...

I find this notion of OS players needing to be creative and clever while modern players just spam widgets to be a bunch of grognards getting high off their own farts. Modern D&D can be creative and encourage clever play while old school players can stand around lost in a room trying to find a...

The issue of course was that the spells were often not placed correctly in relation to class access, creating things like druids losing access to reincarnate while clerics gained it. In fact, you could design specialty priests who lacked many of the fundamental spells to even do their job...

I'm fascinated with this. There is no ability an NPC can have that a PC cannot? No Vistani with the gift of plot device prophecy, no dragonslayer or witch finder with abilities to hunt certain monsters at the cost of others? All offshoot subraces (drow, derro or Cynidicean) must be PC options...

It's basically this. You can make a thousand D&D clones with different names and have each one play differently from D&D and people will love them all, but make one of those clones the "official" D&D game and people will cry bloody murder about the changes to the mechanics, tone, feel, and...

I still don't see how you combine a scout, wilderness warrior or nature caster into one class without a.) feats, b.) powers, or c.) talent trees, but its your hypothetical 6e.

Can I just point out how hilarious there comments are in a thread about what you would want in 6e?

I can't see how this works. You might as well say "replace the fighter, rogue and sorcerer with a dungeon focused class that could go combat, exploration or magic based."

Same. I can absolutely see agents of the sorcerer kings using conquest paladins, Sk warlocks, shadow monks, and assassin rogues, etc as agents for different missions. Allows for a variety of different NPCs types to battle and the ability to build PC Parties if you want to play the baddies instead.

Why Not Both .gif I've always been a fan of more than one way to skin a concept, so the Legions of Templars could contain scheming magicians who swore pacts to the SK and your fanatical warriors who swore an oath to them. Your Tarkin/Vader breakdown.

Oath of Conquest is right there...

To be perfectly honest, most settings benefit from a Year Zero continuity. TSR pushing Metaplot changes to Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Planescape and Dragonlance did a lot more to damage those settings than help them. I don't think of many people who look on the The Greyhawk Wars, Grand Conjunction or...

It was a 5e adventure path. It wasn't overly fatal and the whole thing ended at 9th level. People dropped in combat but healing made sure no one died. The bulk of the casualties came from starting with a potential pool of eight players and only having five by the end due to real life issues...

3d Color printed. Which is why she was $40. I don't have a pic of the actual printed out one. Suffice to say they are expensive for one character which is why I don't make one for just anyone.