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Or, instead, they could talk it over like adults, and if necessary the player in question can bow out. The X card only increases 'fun' for the perpetually sensitive, at the expense of literally everyone else at the table. If the group is having fun running a game leading into a body horror...

I would loosely describe it as having some aspect of the racial kit be attractive to a player no matter their class choice. For example, in 4e Eladrin had a short-range teleport as an encounter power (short rest). This ability was good on pretty much everyone, unlike abilities that are...

And in that same sentence I also requested "broad mechanical viability" which clashes with being heavily slanted for a particular role. The half-orc could likewise keep much of its distinction (damage dealer/berserker) simply by adding a few rules for how their features can also apply to spells...

It's a good solution if you want people to never bother grappling, I guess. You already have to give up an attack to attempt a grapple, which prior to 5th level can take a PC's entire turn essentially. Even if you succeed, it just sets their speed to 0 and little else. Sure, you can knock them...

Since I'm in an uncharitable mood, I'd say "The races they already released, but done correctly." which is to say I'd like to see an overhaul on the race options to make them more distinctive to one another, as well as focus on more broad mechanical viability since some races like Half-orcs are...

2 out of 5 rating for Tome of Horrors 5E I backed the kickstarter for Tome of Horrors quite a while ago. I'd never purchased anything from Frog God Games prior to this, but they seemed to have an acceptable pedigree and I had a really good experience with Kobold Press' Tome of Beasts (lot of...

I would be surprised if anyone did. I loathe the concept but what I detest an order of magnitude more is the half-arsed implementation of the idea. WotC should have been far more experimental in something designed to change the playstyle of a character to that degree, but they were too...

It's disappointing because it IS a rehash, just from one of their sister franchises. It's a cynical corporate move to try and cross-pollinate their fanbases. This is the opposite of branching out, while simultaneously making no (known) progress on any of the more classic settings. Overall quite...

It's been said multiple times but yeah, it's Hypnotic Pattern. Even if half the targets succeed in their save, they'll still need to waste their action shaking awake the others that did not, assuming they're intelligent enough to take that course at all. For those that don't, it's one of the few...

People underestimate the usefulness of the humble Driftglobe I think, as people have already said an endless torch is nice in and of itself in games that track light sources, but daylight 1/day is surprisingly potent. There are a huge number of monsters with sunlight sensitivity that can be...

Borderline OP. Moon druids will always be ridiculous because they have full spellcasting, which is quite strong in and of itself, on top of incredible utility/survivability. While their beast form damage does drop a bit, it's by no means gone and can also benefit from riders that the beasts...

Eltab mentions a few good reasons to seek out the place, but I think a large number of other characters might shy away from it on account of it seemingly being very far, pretty dangerous, and not really offering anything to show for it. You might consider mentioning some form of exploitable...

Sadly this poll is missing the most relevant category, "being named Dualazi". I went with Game knowledge as a close second, though, because I feel like ultimately a lot of the other options can only effectively stem from that. For example, I would cast serious doubts on a person's ability to be...

As much as I can manage, yes. I haven't hammered out an exact science to it yet (and such a task might not really be feasible) but I try and do what I can to indicate both narratively and mechanically that players shouldn't feel obligated to behave a certain way to more effectively advance their...

Nope. I tend to keep serious elements of gender/sexuality out of my games because it's not the time or place that's appropriate for those discussions, and this option also runs the risk of involving political discourse, which is likewise discouraged at my table. The risks vastly outweigh the...

I'd say their batting average is closer to 1/2 really. Volo's was really good, I personally found Xanathar's to be largely garbage, and so far Mordenkainen's is shaping up to be 50% amazing (new monsters) and 50% awful (needless/useless static lore). Plus, the continual habit of including...

I tend to award XP based not only on the difficulty of the task at hand, but how much thought the players put into conducting it. When they're interrogating a noble or sleuthing up clues against a cult, if the players discuss the ramifications, thought processes, and lore considerations for...

Love: Modular items (or items with lots of differing uses/abilities), and also powerful consumables. One of my recent favorites to watch my players experiment with is the purple ioun stone. For those that don't have their books handy, it can store up to 3 spell levels from anyone and the wielder...

Are there any new magic items/materials from other planes? I remember in 3e I think the nine hells had their own variant of steel, for example.

Like many others I'll chime in on the size issue, being that I don't like it one bit. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that if/when these get released, they'll have similar disclaimers about the races in Volo's with regards to potential balance issues. Assuming that is the case, I'd...