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While I would like them as well, I doubt we'll be seeing more invocations. Pretty much all the other caster classes that have been previewed so far have simply had new ways to expend spell slots or curated spell lists, and I can't remember any new spells being released, which I think invocations...

Given that most githyanki are inter-planar jerks, you can probably rule out more races that are considered good/normal societies. Anything resembling aberrations is right out as well, for obvious reasons. For my money, (and apologies, I'm not familiar with that campaign) my money would likely...

The goblin grind would be a more helpful metric if we could agree on the particulars, but many of those features just don’t cut it, really. So a barbarian rocks a combat where he rages, what about the other estimated 5+ combats that day? Yeah, the rogue has sneak attack, which isn’t always a...

Alternatively, they can be fantastic aids in creating a living, breathing world full of the unexpected. Not all random encounters have to end in violence, they can be an easy way to introduce NPCs, limited-offer shops or resources, otherworldly geography, or future adventure sites. They’re also...

I’d love to hear how, exactly, they are so underpowered. Aside from level 1 being incredibly short, as has been noted many times on the forums, the few gimmicks the other classes get aren’t exactly spammable. Most classes, in my experience, get by in the early levels with a lot of basic...

Not really a fan of this offering as much as I was the Artificer. For one, I find it weird as others have mentioned how they seem to be nudging the sorcerer towards a pseudo melee role, which it still can't fill effectively with their minor HP bumps and such. Also strange is how none of these...

Aside from campaign specific options that Tony beat me to the punch on, I think PrCs still have a lot of potential for concepts that are somewhat niche or could broadly be used by a number of classes, which would otherwise necessitate a lot of very similar sub-classes being added. I think one...

Translation: Strahd is cool until he actually tries to engage the party in combat, then he gets blown to smithereens. If this was just one poster’s experience I’d take it with a grain of salt, but there have been a plethora of testimonies here and elsewhere that Strahd is extremely fragile, and...

This is pretty good, though the attunement thing is odd, in the sense that it’s more a justification for yourself more than anything, because without an in-game explanation the players are still going to be puzzled by his large item list, if they’re made aware of it at all. This is fine to me...

This is what I was getting at earlier in the thread when I said they just disguised things that are essentially similar/identical. Hell, your descriptions themselves are the same justifications posited by people defending 4e: “At least in 5th the fighter can only do his second wind and action...

I'll add my voice to the crowd echoing support for Kobold Press. Didn't really know much about them when I backed Tome of Beasts, and it blew me away how good it ended up being. I backed their cults supplement as well, so if that is of comparable quality they'll likely have a dedicated fan from me.

Voted vital. Not trying to edition war here but I think 3rd edition was the least balanced of D&D, and I hated that edition by the end, because even my group of players (who rarely visit forums) had realized that caster supremacy was undeniable. This is largely because it doesn't matter if...

I've taken the opposite approach to what many have listed so far. The actual mechanics of dying are the same as listed in the book, but once you're dead, you're dead. No resurrection magic outside of Wish/True Resurrection, period. I found that people take threats more seriously, which might...

There are several problems with this really. First off, most of those descriptors should be on the DM side of things, and you could organize the MM in 5e as such and the players would never be the wiser without either peeking in the book or the DM divulging that information. Mearls and co...

Blue: Wingclap, Thunderclap, Lightning Burst, Push+prone on basic attack Green: Tail sweep, luring glare, mind poison, ongoing poison on basics In 4e dragons get more abilities the more they age, which continues to highlight the differences between species, and that's not getting into...

No problem, hope it helps in some way. It doesn't have to be the same value, it just has (in my opinion, of course) to be a threatening value. There's a fire demon in Tome of Beasts somewhere in that CR neighborhood and it has a fire aura of 2d10 IIRC, which seems like a better option for...

No. The lore and world behind shadowrun is great, the rulebooks are some of the worst I've ever encountered. They have a dizzying number of rules, and many of those are in direct contrast with each other, with little to no guidance on how they are to be resolved. Some, like the 5th ed. addiction...

Some thoughts, in no particular order of importance: Your fiery grab looks like it works well, but it's not clarified if the Immolith gains extra bonus actions from having people held, since it's not making the additional claw attacks. It sounds pedantic (and is) but I could see nitpicking...

I second what frogreaver said. However, I still voted for more crunch. Even with 5e's more streamlined and simplified approach, there's a lot of ground and archetypes yet to be covered and expanded. I'm also always interested in DM focused crunch, like monsters and items. Wizards doesn't really...

yeah... I feel like with you numerous criticisms of the game, you of all people should know that popularity =/= good game design, which is exactly what the default ranger pets fall under, for a variety of reasons ranging from lack of believable independence (the pet just sits there unless...