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Man, thanks for both replying in good faith guys! I appreciate the sentiment of that last bit. Custom lineage as "I'm an elf, but my elf starts with better stuff than your elf" is not something the game needs. I think defaulting everybody to custom lineage would avoid that. But, from your...

DM: You find a +1 Chris of Movies!!! me: Ooooooh, does he glow with magical power? DM: Nope me: Does he have any special properties? DM: Nope me: Does he have an important background that's relevant to the campaign? DM: Nope me: Does he-- DM: Look, he's just a generic +1 Chris, do you want him...

Apologies if I'm misrepresenting your viewpoints guys, but I'm generally confused which direction the criticism of custom lineages is coming from. 6ENow!, you seem to be stating that PCs can be expressed through role-playing, lineage options are unnecessary, and therefore lineage options are...

I'm not suggesting that players should only play custom lineage. I'm suggesting that encouraging them to play custom lineage by default would have some cool advantages. If a player strongly prefers to play a lizardfolk with natural armor, a standard lightfoot halfling, or a cold+heights...

The new Tasha's custom lineage is one of the strongest PC options published--pick a feat, potentially choose an Ability to start at 18, have darkvision. Why not have it be conventional practice that players always build a custom lineage, regardless of the 'race' they want to play i.e.: wanna...

But the flavor is bland, isn't it? Consider the summon undead and animate dead spells. They're the same level, they both create relatively long lasting undead minions. Animate dead has flavor in spades--to the point that people argue about whether using it makes you evil--but clunky and niche...

I've skimmed several threads, reviews, etc. that mention the new summoning spells, mostly positively, and finally got around to reading all of the spells themselves. ...I don't get it. Why on earth are there nine of them? As you've calculated, they're all about the same CR when cast at equal...

For a backline full caster, the goblin's bonus action disengage is amazing--like, bananas good. Fury of the small, like you mention, works with spells as well--though it's by far less impactful than the disengage.

Creating compound skill/tool proficiencies for medicine/healing kit, performance/instrument, animal handling/land vehicles, and sleight of hand/thieves tools makes intuitive sense to me. There is a lot of conceptual overlap between these skills and tools that makes each one individually less...

Come on now, Genghis Khan only uses sneak attack as an army feature. He doesn't need rules cheese to get advantage on a ranged attack.

Yeah, as some others have said, what you're describing sounds like a background feature, kind of like the criminal's criminal contact feature. It also sounds a little bit like, conceptually, what an assassin's support personnel do is analogous to what the rogue assassin subclass does with its...

I voted yes, but not as described. This is the thing to keep in mind about paladin divine smites: they are a bad use of spell slots as compared to, say, bless but are an AMAZING optimization of the action economy. Smite spells, on the other hand, are a situational use of spell slots but an...

/commence to tar pit myself in a pedantic and unnecessary internet argument about how European history informs the verisimilitude of a fictional place You guys are right about the maps; Medieval maps generally don't display clear borders. But that's not @tetrasodium 's main point. That point...

I'm not sure if anybody brought this up already--I only read pages 1, 2, 11, and 12--but my first impression is that the new favored foe is much better integrated with the ranger's other mechanics than hunter's mark is. "When you hit a creature with an attack roll" is way better for rangers...

Magnificent! Just magnificent.

Why not do all four! Idea: Elves use a modified version of the simulacrum spell, with sentient bio-matter replacing the snow & ice component. It allows them to have unlimited active duplicates. As part of the 12-hour casting, the (usually unwilling) sentient creature liquefies and reassembles...

re: defilers being stronger than other casters. You're right of course. Player rules don't need to correspond to setting background. @Snarf Zagyg covered that pretty well in one of many Greyhawk threads. I am of the opinion that the uniqueness of a setting comes across more strongly if they do...

That is a beautiful turn of phrase which, in my opinion, perfectly encapsulates the essence of Darksun. I think this discussion would have benefited if that line were part of its starting point. Your comment exposes something noteworthy. Its quite curious to me how many posters have mentioned...

Yoon Suin is a brilliantly flavorful setting. A snippet I liked about one location: "The city itself is a beautiful but haunted place. The nasnas who populate it are silent, shameful things which do not associate with outsiders - or, seemingly, each other. And many of its great buildings - its...

Oh my dear god! It's magnificent o_O