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I want to do the things these characters do: Firestarter (create and control fire, including immunity to fire eventually) Professor X (telepathy, empathy, I’d prefer mind control be considered inherently monstrous and evil but I know that isn’t gonna happen so it’s in too, illusions by way of...

Star Wars Saga Edition Force Powers (but 5e style spontaneous casting, not the ‘you choose Move Object 2 times so you can use it 2 times’ paradigm) combined with perhaps 3-5 psionic skills, and invocation style Talents, on a class framework that is a mix of the warlock and monk. So you spend...

I mean this is why I always chuckle at the notion that in a world based on the rules, casters would rule. Like lol in a world where wizards can cast Charm Person and Dominate Person? Really? Nah. It would be legal to kill spellcasters in most places, before they would rule anything.

One of the only archetypes I want to play as a psion that isn’t already a subclass is the guy who makes constructs of psionic energy, like a bow or a sword and shield, and fights with them. Throwing stuff is cool, but damn come on let me just shoot psionic energy bolts.

It’s still active, FWIW. And still fairly fun if you have a few friends to play it with. They put Sharn in the game a few years ago, and they keep updating it with new content. Neverwinter is a decent MMO, but it’s not really similar to NWN.

Imagine Soul Caliber, but an open world MMO with contained linear stories for each Origin (character), where the fighting is literally just Soul Caliber fighting mechanics, and you can earn rewards by taking on the role of minions of Nightmare and try to kill heroes in PVP.

Yeah totally all that nostalgia in the…Hit Point Dice, Weapon Masteries, D20 Tests, Emanations, Sleep being a saving throw vs unconscious, Orcs, Goliaths, and Aasimar, as PHB species, races being called Species, Wizards having multiple healing spells, not to mention all the subclasses that were...

Yep. Magical Captain subclasses could be things like teleporting defender/controller type with support teleports as well, and an elementalist that adds elemental effects to ally actions with a 10+ ft emanation.

Yeah thematically the spirits bard is closer to a witch than the 5e warlock, IMO. Of course, the 5e bard base class isn’t related to anything except the D&D 3e And later Bard, so…eh. It’s more rogue than bard. /tangent

Like the Chef feat means human professional Chefs are more common than in history, and human soliders and sailors and knights are heartier as a result of the fortifying properties of well crafted food. Okay. Not exactly world breaking. And again, there is no consistent rationale to all wood...

Humans can kill with sharpened sticks but we still improve our weaponry as frequently as possible. And only two types of Goliaths have extra damage. But even for those two, a sword is still vastly better than a rock. The majority will have utility cantrips. Prestidigitation is unthinkably more...

I despise the notion of PCs being completely different types of creatures from their kin, which this POV necessitates. If all dwarf “heroes” have stonecunning, but not all dwarves in general, is “heroism” a genetic trait? Are all PCs mutants or chosen ones blessed by the gods with weirdly...

Fair, but not being able to see anything or perceive as if seeing past 30ft is already a huge restriction. No reason they wouldn’t know where a bee is within their heightened hearing and smell range.

The scaling is too much, but before that point I like it. Also the scaling is odd. Why do they need to be touching the same surface, if they are using hearing to perceive their surroundings?

In my game, Crossroads, dragons are either mortal, and more like… more diverse Pern dragons that can take humanoid shape, or they’re immortal and like lung in essence. Evil greater dragons are rare, but terrifying like fallen angels. All dragons are tied to the world, and reflect it in some...

I’ve little desire to play any of the new variants, and I refuse to run them as giant descended, just as I refuse to run Dragonborn that way. They’re both independent species. But I have no issue with running Goliaths of all types as simply a species with many presentations due to a primordial...

30ft teleport twice a day? You still need stairs and doors. Maybe higher walls in defensive architecture. Not much else.

Both have great ideas! Thanks. I’ll poke at the idea more next few days.

The original D&D Ranger was a warrior, not a subclass of anything much less the thief. What are you on about? Ranger has never been a rogue subclass that I can recall, in anything but video games.

Lol people who dislike meatgrinder CharGen don’t need to be in control all the time, or we wouldn’t be playing TTRPGs in the first place. See and that is what I want more than any specific mechanics. I want a well made “old school dungeon crawler” using relatively simple and rational mechanics.