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Personally, I've long thought that carousing and living it up in the grand old sword & sorcery style should have some positive game effect. In 5e, maybe it grants you Inspiration? Or grants you temporary Luck points? But only if you squandered a king's ransom during your downtime.

There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of rhyme or reason to which spells get the ritual tag. For example, the cleric spell Forbiddance gets it, yet the rather similar wizard spell Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum does not. Ritual spells are heavily clustered toward the lower levels, too. No...

Hmm. By 'piercing & bludgeoning' do you mean it does one die of each, or one die that is considered both? I suspect you mean the latter, in which case things could get weird with resistances and vulnerabilities. For example, the skeleton is currently vulnerable to bludgeoning, and I've been...

...Huh. You're right, it's not in there. Weird, I thought for sure I'd seen it. Hold Monster and Dominate Monster are in, though. And in both cases, they're 3 spell levels higher than the 'Person' versions.

Historical druids are said to have given up literacy (except for Ogham) as part of their religion. Since barbarians are often going to be Outlanders, maybe the illiteracy should stem from that background instead. Glad you like it! Yeah, no kidding! The urchin and outlander might well be...

I like it overall, but I'm a little dubious of Quicksilver Tongue. You're basically changing Charm Person into Charm Monster, a level before anyone can get Charm Monster. At the very least, I would require the expenditure of a 4th level slot. You could just replace, say, Confusion with Charm...

The base 5e rules assume that all characters can read and write every language they know. For a variety reasons, I would like to change that. There are three levels of literacy: Literate, Semi-Literate, and Illiterate. Literate people can read and write the script of any language they can...

I like this idea. Though I think the Psychic Warrior could easily be a subclass of Fighter instead. I could also see folding Psychoportation into the Kineticist.

It just occurred to me that paladins should probably use a similar system to clerics, else multiclassing them will get a bit wonky. Thing is, how many spells known and Favor points should they get? Since paladins are half-casters, maybe that's the way to go - divide their paladin level by two...

I think the sorcerer can stay the way it is. They have a radically different spell list, they don't have to worry about pleasing a patron, they get metamagic, and they get a bloodline. IMO, that's distinctive enough. The druid is a stickier wicket. 2e's approach was to make them a type of...

I grant that a little common sense on the part of the GM goes a very long way. And I grant that one doesn't need a bunch of rules for everything. But in this case, all the tools are already present in the game, they just didn't use them. It would have been easy to add, "Immune to the...

There are some oddities about resistances and vulnerabilities, for sure. I'm currently a little dissatisfied with the skeleton and zombie. The skeleton ought to have resistance - or maybe even immunity! - to piercing damage. Stabbing a skeleton is just a dumb idea - or ought to be. Zombies...

I think this makes a lot of sense in principle, but I also think it won't happen, for two reasons: 1) They already floated this as a possibility, and people hated it. 2) The sorcerer spell list doesn't seem that suitable to a psion, at least to me. And if they rework the spell list, they're...

Sigh. You are, of course, correct.

Careful, there. CR doesn't work the way it used to. The CR 2 Berserker is definitely not level 2. CR 2 means he's a significant threat to a four-man 2nd level party!

I've long thought the cleric should cast like a sorcerer rather than like a pseudo-wizard - their god granting them specific abilities as 'gifts'. It seems really easy to do in 5e, too: Give the cleric a Spells Known column just like that for the sorcerer. Remove the Channel Divinity uses...

Thanks! And what's their alignment these days? Imps are actually in the PHB, precisely because they're infernal-pact familiars. Though oddly, they're CR 1/4 there.

I suppose. It also seems weird that Devotion paladins can turn fiends but clerics can't. Sigh... Can't really argue with that. What I'd really like to see is a return to the 2e spheres for clerics. Or perhaps best of all, a sorcerer-like cleric who has Spells Known primarily from his main...

What's the CR on mephits? I'm wondering if they would make good familiars for warlocks in an elemental pact I'm pondering. Oh, and another question about slaadi: What creature type are they? Aberration? Fiend? Monstrosity?

They have their domain spells auto-prepared. I was proposing letting a feat do the same for another domain's spells. Also, some domains have spells that aren't on the cleric list.