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Nice! I missed this Kickstarter--probably would have backed it if I'd been aware at the time. Just curious, why is the 5E PDF more expensive than the Level Up PDF? Does it contain more information or is it just that Level Up is expected to be less popular?

Haven't caught up on the whole thread yet, but are you thinking of this, by chance? (Video cued to appropriate scene. Skip to 33:51 if that doesn't work.)

My last session can be summed up by this drawing, which one of the players dashed off: All the players rolled on the carousing tables. When we put all their results together, we ended up with a story where the barbarian and fighter won huge amounts of money from a gambling house run by a...

Yes and no. The mining of disposable pop entertainment for cultural critique has become an exponentially more routine pastime in the 21st century than it was in the 20th. That sort of thing happened, but pop culture wasn't given the cultural weight that it has now.

Are we allowed to vote for one of the MtG settings featured in "Plane Shift"? I'd love to see a more thorough writeup of Ixalan, maybe a bestiary.

Nice! I'm bookmarking this for possible use in my Descent into Avernus campaign.

Not bland subclasses. Bland classes, because they'll be so heavily modified by portable subclasses (and, in your expanded version, prestige classes as well). I don't hate it as an idea for a game somewhere. I've just been explaining from the beginning why I feel that it works against some of...

I'd rather have fewer, well-defined and flavorful (official) subclasses than a bigger but blander array. For D&D, at least. For infinite mix-and-match, I'd rather just go with a classless point-buy system. I don't have to imagine it. I've played D&D 3.5 and Star Wars Saga Edition.

You could work in gem dragons for extra economic shenanigans. Maybe there's no actual mining in this world! (So what would be the stereotypical profession for a dwarf, in that case? Brewer? Stonemason?)

Haven't played 3.5 extensively or recently enough to comment on how the fighter and wizard were designed. Honestly, this is going to come down to what you want from D&D, I guess. I personally like the system where a subclass belongs to only one class, refining and intensifying it. If you think...

Fixed feat slots that reinforce the class fantasy and refine it into a more specific archetype, hence, subclass. Portable "subclasses" that are designed to work with multiple different classes won't reinforce and refine the base class fantasy--quite the opposite. They'll tend to de-emphasize the...

Wouldn't that layer be feats?

I feel like making subclasses that would work with any class would also work against class fantasy. It might still create a fun game, but it wouldn't be a game with strong niche protection, which has always been one of D&D's hallmarks and, arguably, strengths.

Why, though? What do you gain by making all the advancements happen at the same level for every class, apart from consistency? Sometimes it makes more sense with the class fantasy to have things kick in at different levels: some classes have it baked in from the start (sorcerer needs to know...

I ran season 4 (the Ravenloft season) as a home campaign. It was very successful, but I did quite a lot of massaging to make it work--partly because my group plays in a world where Barovia is just a place on the map, not a separate demiplane. I wrote up my experiences in this thread, but I need...

Lolth seems like she should be tops in a category, but I'm not sure what the category could be. "Evil god(dess)" has lots of contenders, and arguably Tiamat fits that one as well. Is "spider" too narrow to be its own category?

In addition to the issues with naming that others have already mentioned, I think WotC has moved away from making books that are just player focused or just DM-focused. They want to have something for both groups in each supplement.

Why do you assume the puzzles won't make the cut?

I'm looking forward to this project!