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No, the concept just sucks for table-top games. It provides offense, defense, increased action economy, and slows combat down for everyone else. There's nothing remotely balanced about it, and I can't recall an edition where it was.

I think a better solution would be just not use Variant Human and let the normal human be the racial choice for those who want to have more control over the ABI.

I think these people are just attached to the name "warlord."

It's not really something that can be balanced in d&d... The "value" of any given ability isn't measured in absolute terms, but rather in relation to the other stuff that ability is going with (or not going with). *edit* The only way it could be balanced is if you group the abilities into...

Now imagine if there was a suddenly a one-handed weapon for those STR based fighters that did d10 damage... See, by making an entire class of weapons stick to one dice type and then having a single exception use a better dice type, you've rendered the bulk of options strictly worse. Why even...

Right, but those motivations require actual input from the player at some point. For the last 10 years, I've encountered player after player that literally won't bother doing something that their character sheet doesn't explicitly state is possible. They seem to treat RPG's as a board game...

That would go against the general theme of 5e. I don't think many people are wanting to go back to the days of 40 specific weapon types with varying degrees of effectiveness against different armor. Finesse melee weapons should be d6; let the player choose how it looks or if it's s/b/p...

Rapiers being finesse d8 just means there's no real choice in weapon if you make a finesse melee fighter. It should have just been rolled up into the shortsword and let the player skin it as a rapier if they really want to. Of course, this is the game system that thinks "studded leather" is real.

Ideally, relationships are the core of a story. Everything else is meant to frame and challenge those relationships. The problem with RPG's is that your average player is totally incapable of actually roleplaying. They can react "in character" when prompted, or give a quip using a funny...

Probably ran into problems figuring out how to translate text with multiple meanings and intentions for individual words (like "target"). I'm half joking... but only half. It very well could be a rough thing to make work.

It's a play on Watergate, and originally used in a slightly-ironic manner by comparing relatively trivial "controversies" to the very real and serious Watergate scandal. Like most things in the internet age, it quickly spiraled into a generic meme that everyone uses so often that it's now just...

He's trying to build a really crappy rogue.

Specifically, the short rest style casting mechanics with feat-like enhancements (incantations + metamagic). It would mean Sorcs are the rapid-fire type caster class that doesn't need to do a lot of pre-planning and can focus on blasting (something warlocks are naturally good at anyway)...

With 5E, I basically never care about ability scores. They aren't interesting and don't really help shape a character anymore (other than mechanical bonuses). I'll never forget my 2E fighter that rolled 18/93 for strength, but I can't even remember what my last character's primary stat was...

I think sorcerers are a solution looking for a problem. In 3e, they were designed for players that wanted to throw spells around, but didn't want to deal with the -- pardon the pun -- booking and planning involved with a wizard, with the tradeoff being less versatility beyond killing people...

Whatever you decide on, just make sure it gets attacked so at the very end the characters can all turn to the camera and say something cheesy like "here we go again!" and charge into battle as it fades to black...

Donjon still seems easier to use, but hopefully things smooth out a bit.

The cleric in our group has it and it's pretty awesome. As a GM, I've come to view it as a free steady 3-6 hp healing per turn since he's always putting himself in harm's way. Might not sound like a lot, but it adds up quickly. It also seems to scale with levels pretty effectively, and is...

Intentions are a big part of it. Players often choose the most effective "min maxed" option even though they consider other options more interesting. With 5e, this usually happens with feat or ability selections, but also with character "builds" that involve multiclassing for mechanical...

All this fancy software, and literally all I want is a searchable PDF of the rule books with tablets in mind. Nova Praxis, for example, has an awesome digital copy of their rules.