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With shadow blade, you can have 4d8 + 2d6 + cha with no invocations, or 2x Cha with one. All with advantage in dim light. With Devouring blade, you can have 2d6+cha up to three times in a turn, for a net of 6d6 + 3x cha, but only with three invocations. And for those extra two invocations you...

But it's not rare Many do not. Because there's a distinct worry that new dms will see a stronghold and think "the only interesting way to use this is to take it away from the players."

The mechanic here is "dms shouldn't arbitrarily use this against players." Hardly a major limitation of dm agency.

That's what I'm getting. Let's face it, lots of dms see anything not a class feature as an avenue to punish players. Background npcs are just there to be hurt to "motivate" pcs, but never ever ever to be in any way helpful.

weird workaround: have your bladelock take true strike and then you don't need thirsting blade. Great if you plan to use shadow blade often.

When comparing Greek and Roman gods, you're also often comparing two very different time periods centuries apart - we tend to learn older Greek myths that were written 500 years before the Roman versions were written down. I'd probably lean in on the Roman's tendancy to loot gods form conquered...

I had thoughts along these lines a while back, but I went in a slightly different direction: the base idea was "what if your race was worth a whole class level?" which led me to relate each race to one or more classes: Dwarves were initially fighter-types (more focus on defense), though...

On the other hand, Eyes of the Rune Keeper is gone.

I like the choice, but I'd limit it one of two ways: 1. By patron. Archfey are doing it for amusement, so the better you negotiate, the better the deal. Charisma. Old Ones aren't even aware of you; you're trying to understand them. Intelligence. Etc (I could see genies using constitution.) 2...

Races of Stone isn't on the poll. It's my favorite individual book. Entire poll is invalid :P

depends on the penalty for not having enough strength. If it's just a movement penalty, then every cavalier who can afford it wears it - but only the strongest adventurers wear it while caving.

But they’re telling me that I’m having fun, even though I think I’m not having fun, because they know better than I do what I enjoy.

It’s happened to me more than once. Sometimes people don’t make sense.

It's extra annoying when the players tell the dm they don't find crit fails fun, but the dm disagrees an tells the players that they (the players) do find them fun.

Just to fill in: 3e rangers were still mostly warriors, with extra skill points, an animal companion, and a few spells. The fighter got extra feats. Aside from some variance in how useful specific abilities were, rangers were pretty close to paladins in structure. 4e rangers were non-magical...

Another method I’ve heard of: You pick stats in tiers before rolling. Say I’m thinking of playing a druid. I put my stats in priority order: wis, then con, dex, int, str, cha. I actually only need three tiers. The top two stats I roll 5d6 and keep the best 3. So probably really good numbers...

Well it is the DMPC

Sure. It’s realistic, but people get upset when paladins don’t prioritize intelligence.

They just want more people to play with

Cool. But you're also not arguing that not wanting those things is the one correct way to paly dnd and anyone who wants those things is wrong. Take away whack-a-mole by just not letting people get up when dropped to zero will greatly increase TPKs.