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Valid-ish complaint, or at least a common one. There really isn't much difference between a CR 0 commoner, CR 1/8 guard, CR 1/2 soldier, or a 1st level character. It's not really until level 5 that we see a dramatic increase in effectiveness. Up to that point, we are mostly adding HP. I can...

Combining lineage, class, background, and backstory should give every PC a much broader base of knowledge than I tend to see from casual players. The idea that a former mercenary wouldn't have a grasp of basic tactics for dealing with common monsters, or that a mountain dwelling hermit isn't...

I did this in a homebrew once. 4 gods total. 1 each of L/C/G/E, but there were a half dozen or more distinct religions, as well as splinter sects and cults, for each entity. It was marvelous.

But they had green skin. 😅

Tipper Gore, is that you?

I agree, but im not sure where you are going with this.

Oh, man. I didn't even touch torture. I was more focused on what fell into the realm of Neutral, with a couple notable exceptions. Blatant Evil does have its place, I play Dark Sun after all, but even most heroic parties aren't going to spend a lot of effort digging into why an evil race of...

This is funny. I was thinking of this exact example, but from the perspective that it only stopped most of the violence. Not all. Sure. A small win. It could be part of that, but it doesn't have to be. Powerful adventurers could force a cessation of hostilities in a number of ways that...

Ending the violence is a nice little win, but if you didn't solve the poems that led to the violence, aren't you just facilitating oppression? How good is that when you boil it down to basics.

Gary Gygax will always be loved for bringing D&D to the world, but he hasn't been relavent to a discussion of rules or alignment for a couple decades, at least.

1. Adventures that involve any factions should have things that matter to those factions. It does not (usually) mean that the PCs acted "correctly." It means that they acted in accordance with that faction's ideals. The Knights of Solamnia and Andropenis should have very different methods of...

If you are looking for a nuke-equivalent, I'd be inclined to suggest something like the Orbs of Dragonkind, a Sphere of Annihilation, Tomes of Golemn Manufacturing or similar. They all make for great arms race type scenarios.

Check out the Planescape setting. It is right up your alley

IME it's new players that come up with off the wall ideas, although I do have that one guy who still does it after decades. Crushing creativity because rules is rarely as much fun as letting something play out with dice and using advantage/disadvantage to play a role. The reflected lightning...

Alignment is a great descriptive tool, but as anything else, it fails miserably. The days of "but that's what my character would do," alignment restricted classes, Helm of Opposite Alignment (or whatever the hell it was called,) failing paladins, and all the other associated garbage that came...

2d6+17 a few times per round (at advantage) is great damage for most levels of play.

For Floki, id go Trickery Cleric/Oath of Ancients Paladin. Or maybe, just fighter, ranger or rogue with a dash of Archfey Warlock.

That's entirely fair. I'd be on the side of allowing no racial abilities to be used, but the reverse could be a lot of fun if you are running a campaign with the intention of letting things get a little crazy.

To quote Nick Fury "...but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I'm going to ignore it." Why? How is this not a physical characteristic of the race? It's freaking cheetah-speed.