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Post-apocalyptic survival and low-magic: I'm SOLD!!! I've always wanted to run a campaign where you could throw LOTS of dragons at the players. Not just the typical dragons from the MM either - lots of variants and varying levels of power. I've had a campaign concept for a while that actually...

I love anything that mentions Chaositech so you have my attention. This is a great idea. Trust me, I'm a huge fan of Innsmouth-esque secret cults but something a larger scale is incredibly frightening. Immediately though of something like Thay or the Necromongers from Chronicles of Riddick. If...

I love the feel and tone of the Witcher. Honestly, I like my campaigns to trend that direction. It's the classic "points of light" campaign. The world is scary and brutal with small "safe" zones interspersed. You have two options for running dark & gritty setting: with "fluff" or rules. With...

Yup, it's a campaign killer.

That's a pretty sassy comment. Z certainly focuses on combat for is reviews but I have no doubt he has a solid grasp of 5E balance and mechanics. I don't always agree with his assessment or even his review criteria but I always learn something from his posts. I do agree with his take on the...

That sounds fine, within reason of course. If Tasha's has shown us anything, it's that 5E is incredibly modular. Bounded accuracy has taken care the numeric balance so much of the features are fairly interchangeable. I'd allow a cleric to choose domain features/spells from multiple domains of a...

I have an original copy. I was fascinated by this module when I was a kid.

Well one person thinks they suck and another bans them because they are OP. Sounds like they are just right.

Start with druid, swap wild shape for the Wild Companion familiar option in Tasha's, customize the spell list a bit with some thematic spells from the wizard/warlock spell lists (Bestow Curse, Hex, etc), take a circle like Land, Spores, Stars, etc. Voila.

Go for it. I like the idea a lot. There was a discussion on exactly this a little while ago.

Most of my gaming budget these days is spent on terrain, miniatures, and board games. Terrain and minis are definitely used for D&D but other games as well. I buy an occasional RPG book/pdf but my book-purchasing has slowed over the years.

I agree that some degree of "system mastery" is required for feats, but that certainly isn't unique to the playtest, nor is it unique to D&D. That said, the final 5E feat system has its own host of problems, which are more egregious than an evolution of the 3ed/Next framework. With all games, a...

Other things I like: Faster feat gain: levels 1, 3, 6, 9, etc Skill improvement No "kitchen sink" feats - the feats were more like a revamped 3.5 than the monstrosity of a feat system we ended up with. Much easier to balance. I certainly don't like them all but the foundation was much more...

Published but I don't adhere to canon and change things as needed. The setting solely provides context for the players' choices; it's not a set of requirements that must be adhered to.

Been browsing through the Next files again because of this thread... I really like that the base Fighter class had Battlemaster maneuvers. That would have opened up so much customization for any number of archetypes. That said, the Next Fighter probably underwent the most changes of any class...

Agreed. The melee features could easily have become a subclass, but the mechanic of the sorcerer changing and gaining more abilities as they spent their sorcery points was awesome.

The playtests certainly weren't organized very well, that's for sure. I started going through each one picking out what I liked for a possible 5.5 version but the project lost steam. Someday!

Bards and sorcerers did both show up. The warlock never did though. The bard was towards the end in a couple of the playtest packets but the sorcerer only showed up once and it was fairly early on. It was awesome though. Had a unique mechanic and was quite different then the wizard. It wasn't...

Honestly, I like 2dX or dice pools systems better than d20 but you need a completely different modifier system and TN system.

I'm ok with changes like this but it has to be combined with limiting the number of short rests allowed per long rest: 2 short/long is a common house rule. Then I would use Arcane Recovery as the baseline.