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4e definitely had various growth options throughout an adventurer’s career (or at least at regular intervals). 3e had prestige classes, but my experience with those was that most prestige classes were not so much “choices at higher levels” but rather “something to plan from level 1” in order to...

I think the point is for magic to be less abusable, not less cool. If the spells are broken, no amount of fixing the wizard will solve the issue.

Echoing what @Mistwell said: I wouldn’t touch the wizard as a class, I would nerf/rearrange the spells themselves.

"Tasha's pet thing" is just the format they seem to utilize now for all secondary characters now (be they artificer steel defender, druid spirit companion, revised ranger animal companion etc.) whereas "pet" acts on its own, on your turn immediately after you, but requires your bonus action to...

revisit and rebalance certain feat, revisit and rebalance certain spells (including BF concentration tags), and update the beast master to Tasha’s pet class mechanics. The rest was fine as is

I don't know anymore what kind of setting WotC should publish. Mainly through the PHB, D&D aims to present material that can cover a wide spectrum of fantasy sub-themes and sub-genres, catering to as diverse a crowd as they can. With each passing year, D&D gets broader and broader in scope, to...

Perhaps they have been visible/collectable by all, only, no one has been able (or tried) to do anything with them. Some take them as curiosity, some weirdos collect them and have all kinds of esoteric theories about those. Someone might actually have it right. Maybe you need to be bitten by a...

I like having both classes, I find them both relevant and distinct. If we have to eliminate something however, I’d go the other way. Eliminate the wizard - it now is a sorcerer subclass, the one that knows more spells by having a spell book.

Wasn’t there a gestalt option in the DMG? As for leveling, I’d simply divide the character’s XP by the number of classes it got, which bring the gestalt PC 1-3 levels behind for most of their adventuring career

As other posters have said, a world with no friction is pretty hard to conceive as it would shatter most of our frames of reference and just boggle our mind. It's a bit easier to imagine in space - in absence of gravity and atmosphere - where the effects of friction are limited in the first...

The artificer sounds like a good starting point to built a gish class that isn't just a fighter-y wizard or a multiclass. Some spells, cantrips, and because of its (rather awkward) half-caster-but-rounded-up-instead-or-rounded-down clause, access to magic from level 1. Infusions are a good...

King’s Dilemma is a board game that plays a bit like a choose-your-own-adventure book. Players get to vote on a aye/nay question, which leads to different storylines (kept in sealed envelopes) depending on the outcome of the vote, bringing new agendas to vote on, etc. It plays as a campaign so...

oh yeah, we had one all-drow campaign with the Menzoberanzan boxset! It... didn't end well.

Propositions of all-dwarves one-shots or short campaigns come up regularly, as they have for as long as I remember (the other recurring idea I’ve seen is all-thieves/rogue parties). I’m not sure why dwarves specifically, but I’ve heard about purposefully all-dwarves parties a lot more than...

Not sure if I ever did.. maybe? Now that I’ve seen a real total eclipse however…

I think it’s a situation like when you return to your small hometown after a long absence, you find that your town has changed. Some things are there as you remember, some things are still there but you see them differently now, and some things are no longer there at all.

Bring back THAC0 and negative AC. Voilà!

I just wanna add, using LEGO stormtroopers as a tag for a discussion on innovation vs conformity and originality vs familiarity is spot on and clever on so many levels. Kudos for that!

Interestingly, among our group, we see this as a feature rather than a bug. Some of us have our character "type", play on recurrent themes, and create scenarios that can be predictable for those who know us. That's cool; we know it and use it. Chess is a noble game and there is no shame to turn...

While I try to bring some "new' into my games, I've learned that familiarity is one of a DM's greatest ally, that predictability makes things easier to telegraph, and that repetition and consistency allow for tighter focus. Balance is what I am for. Most of my best work, like most of my...