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The description they gave for monster design sounds decidedly more 4e than 5e. "We've moved away from strict monster construction formulas based off type and Hit Dice. Instead, we start by deciding on the creature's rough level and role in the game, then select statistics that make it a...

For level 17 maybe focus on the fact that thugs aren't just bullies, they're tough SOBs, or at least by level 17 they should be. You've got them smacking people around, now let them get smacked around and shrug it off with a contemptuous sneer. Maybe some combination/variation of: * you have...

It would make sense to perhaps have planar distance interfere with the "divine intervention" ability rather than spellcasting. If you're on the opposite side of the great wheel from you god and you ask them to personally intervene, that might be more difficult than when you're in their...

It is due to a curse after all, so maybe its not entirely up to the player to act fully CHA 1, it could be the curse causes others to see and treat him as CHA 1. Essentially, his opinions have no weight, his presence is not noted or desired, his actions are not appreciated or acknowledged...

My experience seems to be reversed from the popular vote. At the weekly adventure leagues I've played in, I don't think I've ever been in a party that didn't have a Bard (occasionally multiple bards), and most of them have had a monk. On the other hand I've barely ever seen rogues, certainly...

I've always wanted to see a sort of divine skill class, sort of a fighter is to rogue as paladin is to [this class]. The 4e Avenger isn't right at all because it was just a divine striker, all combat little skill or finesse. Pathfinder has the Inquisitor which is sort of in the right design...

The general template seems to be concentration (up to an hour) and as part of the spell you can protect your square with a blood circle of protection. you summon creatures with their own initiative and their own actions. the variations seems to be: Barlgura: attacks any non-demon, no further...

Oh yeah... At least those spells "hide" it a little better by offering you more manageable numbers of higher CR creatures.

Nothing like summoning 32 demons to gum up game for a while (Conjure lesser demon, at 8-9th level). That just seems like reckless spell design (which I assume is what they want feed back on). It is certainly possible to have clever ways for a good DM to handle it, but for many games it seems...

It lets you force the DM to give you a trivial amount of gold for roleplaying your bard in a tavern. And that will make you feel like a rockstar, and the DM will be happy you're roleplaying for once, so its a win-win skill.

I think forgotten realms has better name recognition, especially to people that got into D&D in the late 1990s-early 2000s, and so even if the first three adventures had been greyhawk, I think that forgotten realms could very likely still have had a larger piece of that pie chart than greyhawk...

For me it was looking up "running" in the index that highlighted the problem rather clearly (at least I think that was it). As I recall, looking up 'running' tells you to look up 'dash', looking up dash tells you to look up 'actions:dash', looking up actions leads you to the page number for...

The whole meta-narritive that leads to "fire is more often resisted, so fire spells need to be noticeably more [fill in the blank] than other types of spells" never sits right with me. especially since it seems to amount to "fire gets more, others get less" far more often then fire is remotely...

Mechanics-wise: an acid-dragon sorcerer casting fire spells that are retooled with acid damage should not be any more powerful than a fire-dragon sorcerer casting those same spells in their original form. So from a balance standpoint, it is probably not overpowered to do this. Flavor-wise...

Goblin and satyr.

It could be that the choice in skills appears now in backgrounds because they are finding many players or DMs are using/requiring out of the book backgrounds. The idea seems to me that originally backgrounds were supposed to be heavily "Make your own" so little choice within a specific...

The warden was a really neat Idea in 4e for me. Tougher than a barbarian, flavorful primal attack powers, and some interesting versatility (kind of), a pretty darn solid defender. Things that would make a warden to me: -d14 hitdice :P -Choices about becoming even tougher, a better protector...

I very much like your improvement to giant killer, it resonates with correctness. I hadn't realized that not every spell class gets rituals. I agree the ranger should, and I think all of them probably should too. In general, very even handed and stout suggestions. Thanks.

I can see both sides of the argument, and in these cases I try and line it up with the "feel" of the system. This is of course subjective, but I think developing a cohesive feel for rules can help make judgement calls more satisfying. I'm still getting a 'feel' for how 5e (for lack of a better...

So the gaming store where I've been doing D&D encounters has a decent number of people who want to play encounters, but aren't ready for 5e yet, so I've DMed scourge of the sword coast and now Dead in Thay in 4e. For Scourge I just made monsters based on the 4e monster math (with reduced...