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Swarm druid would be a big one, assuming the eventual fungal druid they are working on gets fixed to a reasonable degree. I also second Lylandra's request for a chronomancer, I've always loved that thematic pairing. I'd really like a good strength rogue subclass too for thug-type options...

Spore druid: Awesome thematic potential, but the mechanics are all over the place. Using your reaction like that is stupid and should just be assigned to a bonus action, and the range is incredibly gimped off the bat. Likewise, the symbiotic wildshape buffs your melee damage, which is still...

It's in the opening statement dude. "New Agenda Publishing is a consortium dedicated to promoting diversity in the RPG community through our hiring and choices." It's right there, at the bottom of the OP. Emphasis on "Hiring", meaning they will be giving undue weight to a persons race, gender...

Voted Hate it, which is a little harsh but ultimately justified but the dearth of other options over the course of the edition thus far. Which is a decision I was all on board with, assuming it included the all-important caveat that when expansions were released, they were extremely high...

2 out of 5 rating for Xanathar's Guide to Everything Xanathar's guide to Everything is the first major rules expansion of 5th edition, and like the books that came before it aims to split the content of the book so it is aimed at DMs and PC's alike. As such, I'll be breaking down each section...

You know a company is destined for greatness when their opening announcement contains nothing other than a racially-charged opening statement and no product information or teasers of any kind. Then again, with a name like "New Agenda Publishing" at least they're being pretty transparent that...

No, he proved that the exhaustion penalty on the berserker is indeed needlessly punitive and that even with its absence the subclass does not significantly outperform its peers. It's a reasonable piece of supporting evidence to the argument that has been espoused for a while that the berserker...

Will probably back this since I can always use more monsters and FGG seems to have a decent rep around here, and the wannabe inquisitors trying to derail the thread only encourage supporting it. Hope it ends up being good.

Absolutely agreed, and I cynically feel like these spells are being put forth to offer the most meagre of offerings to people who want their own fortresses so that they don’t actually have to write sensible rules for them. Probably because most of the unpalatable ones are high level spells...

I would love to hear examples of how you think Thieves' Cant can 'destroy' a campaign, or how it's really valuable at all, since I don't think I've heard of anyone even mention it as a ribbon ability, let alone a significant class feature. At best it's a low-level means of conveying information...

This is for all intents and purposes incorrect. While there are some factors that can't be accounted for, there are a huge number that can be compared and with a reasonable degree of accuracy. Furthermore, many of your examples illustrate that point; yes a paladin is good in ravenloft, but...

Late response to the thread, but I think the key difference here is that you can stay in wildshape for hours, and if you're a moon druid (which, let's be honest, most druids are) then you can heal your temps with spell slots. I've played two campaigns with moon druids so far, and it has not been...

I do not, mostly because savvy gamers will notice then that you can queue up multiple smites on a single swing, and then have impressive nova potential along with the status effects of spells like Banishing Smite. The real problem is that for a large portion of the game, the rider effects aren't...

I doubt this would change much of anything really, the first one is still a hit against the more strength-prone heavy armor users, and the latter fix I can't see the point of because in all my years of playing D&D, I can't remember a single time when a player wore armor they weren't proficient...

While I definitely agree that Shadar-kai are not elves and should not be retconned as such, I actually hope the response to this UA is simply negative across the board. In a thread posted by Yaarel, they tally up that there will now be 12 variants of elves in the game with this UA, and that is...

This is the correct response, the complaints can and should be dismissed out of hand. It sounds like you did reasonable diligence in researching the culture in question and at least from your anecdote it doesn't seem like the NPC was played in a demeaning way. If these things are true, then what...

This is only really a valid strategy if you are looking to curate a long-term reviewer that will recommend future products to you, which is valid of course, but it's not nearly as applicable in the broad sense. You say you'll check out what they're reviewing, but that basically means buying or...

This is a disgustingly manipulative trick that gets played out all too often these days, and essentially boils down to “do what I say or you didn’t listen”, when that is not even remotely close to being true. As I believe Mistwell remarked earlier, you can listen to someone’s grievances and...

For me personally, I want reviews that are quantitative and analytical. Like you, I typically have little tolerance for poorly constructed initial impressions or general responses. I want to know what the thing in question is, what is sets out to do, how it accomplishes (or fails) at this, the...

Not in particular, but your topic did give a brief burst of inspiration, I think I'm going to work on some homebrew rules for Greater Attunement. This will add/modify some items to be able to devote multiple attunement slots to achieve greater effects. For example, a Flametongue might give...