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A very…complicated topic, but since it’s being broadly discussed in the context of RPGs as a whole, I’ll give my two coppers for what it’s worth. Nudity/sexual content: From a conceptual standpoint, there’s nothing wrong with it. Whether it’s gratuitous or not is up to questions of context...

Potentially but not really. This also definitely stems from how advantageous numbers of creatures are in 5th edition, creating creatures of 'equal power' would probably be just as disruptive in other ways. Plus, it's one of the last holdouts for a real summoner option, and I'd rather that stayed...

The first two seem fine to me, provided the animal can only relay information it itself knows (lay of the land, people passing by etc.). That said, you might have to adjust the agricultural traits of the orcish people; it seems like their hunter-gatherer stereotype would be inhibited by that...

Not a bad video by any stretch, but I wished he had saved the waxing about the edition change for another video and focused on more on practical ways of transitioning 4e concepts to a 5th edition game, doubly so since Dragons (his example creature) are probably some of the best 5e has to offer...

Do you mean Savage Attack, not Relentless Endurance? One possible option off the top of my head would be to give them the ability to call on spirits/ancestors/whatever to aid them in a given task or provide them with information or direction. Might take the form of a minute long rite that...

Well…Quickleaf and Saeviomagy pretty much articulated many of my thoughts far better than I could myself, but for what it’s worth: Investigation skill inclusion is good but should go further, at the end of the day perception is still the more valuable skill by far, and is more useful in...

I disallow multiclassing in my game, because I think it was handled sloppily in this particular edition, and as a result is used more for overpowered dips than any real result of character arcs. Maybe if I was starting a game at level 10 or something I'd allow certain multiclass characters...

I'll echo the call for stances, although I'd caution against their implementation willy-nilly. If they can always be toggled on and have no real downsides for doing so (or if the player doesn't mind consistently suffering the downsides that may be present) then they're really just a feat by...

I believe if you use roll20 for games as well it has a built-in function to play music, either continually or upon loading a new map/area.

The fact that interested parties can use social media to engage in modern day witch-hunts is not an indictment of the strength or validity of the viewpoints they demonize, merely that they have no other means of refuting them besides lashing out. Those ideas and beliefs can emphatically and...

The phrase you're looking for is "honesty" not "negativity". There's still a great amount of help to be found here, and a lot of extremely knowledgeable people. Facebook and reddit are both crap for actual discussions, facebook because you paint a giant target on your back for anything...

Chase rules are there, but it's pretty bare-bones and doesn't work that great. Due to most monsters having huge con scores, they're very hard to wind, and losing them outside of that is all stealth checks, of which only a small number of players seriously invest. If you have a strength based...

Yeah, this is pretty garbage really. Chaos pretty much took it apart already, and the problem here is that the math is so bad I can't even really test to see if the concept works to any reasonable degree. My campaign could definitely use some good mass combat rules so this a bummer, but just...

The answer to your question about how many fights start at a mile is "a lot more often with this option". If the wizard is willing to nova for it, then even large groups of enemies can be decimated from afar. You've also hit the nail on the head when you say neither team is really going to be...

This is one of the many problems with the loremaster though, if you simply refluffed those spells on an actual necromancer, then they run the risk of being handicapped when fighting creatures resistant to necrotic. The loremaster just switches to lightning or radiant and carries on.

A lot of factors go into making a monster book worthwhile for me. One is simply volume of monsters, how much bang am I getting for my buck. The other is how well the monsters are designed, are they balanced? Do they bring something interesting to the table mechanically? Are they something...

Hawk Diesel and Hemlock have really brought most of the points I wanted to make to bear, but yeah, in my opinion there’s little to salvage here. From a conceptual point of view, this guy just exists to both steal the sorcerer’s thunder while simultaneously fixing a huge number of wizard...

You could likely incorporate the draining crystals part in one of two ways; 1) having it be a continuous save-ends effect for the victim, or 2) requiring the wielder to maintain concentration while the shards drain life from the enemy.

A well-intentioned attempt by wizards to give players more conch options. I'm honestly unsure, which is kind of nice in and of itself. More magic items/support for purchasing or creating them would be nice, because while I don't particularly need them there are certainly tables that want them...

Eh. I think 3.5 and 4e were just accelerants on an already burning fire. I didn’t play much of 2e before 3e came out, so maybe you can correct me on this, but I was pretty certain that internet communities and resources for D&D at that point were pretty scarce, and most of the scene was driven...