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I do wonder exactly how BG3 oriented the Baldur's Gate section will be.

Whenever I see the phrase “OC community” I want to post a gif of Adam Brody as Seth Cohen.

Sure, but Pun-Pun was really an issue of a problematic core spell (polymorph self) turning every monster book into a possible player-facing splat. That wasn't an issue with specified player-focused splat material. Yes, Nightsticks and Divine Metamagic were problematic, no question. (Although...

A bunch of psychic knowledge-seeking dragons having a secret reason to ally with a group of humans seems like a natural story hook to me.

Sure. Preferences are of course preferences, de gustibus and all that. I would note only that my earlier post #585 wasn't really about preferences; it was more pushback against the conventional wisdom that splatbook bloat was the ultimate cause of 3.5's noted balance issues. My personal...

<shrug> I prefer later 3.5 precisely because it's moving in a flavor direction towards the then-impending 4e, and away from classic AD&Disms. I'll take warblades, binders, and beguilers over fighter, wizard, and cleric every day of the week.

If there’s a specific concern about chain-chugging healing potions, you could always add some sort of “potion toxicity” rule. Like ingesting more than 2 potions within a minute poisons the character or something.

I don't think Ansalon has any sort of ethnic identity. It's a fantasy world; ultimately I don't see a reason not to pursue an idealized "colorblind" cosmopolitanism for all the races in the setting unless something like real-world ethnic tension is a theme within the setting. DL has the...

I think a point of contention is that for a lot of us, adhering to the Elmore art simply isn’t that important. The character descriptions are only loosely sketched out within the book text itself, and that’s really the only standard a live-action adaptation should make a good faith effort to...

“Should be” doing a lot of work there lol. I hope the cast looks pretty much like the cast of Sinners.

The second one, of course.

Character descriptions like skin color and hair color are meaningless when you’re adapting a non-Earth fantasy work to a live-action adaptation. Just cast good actors!

I'm starting to think it might actually just be simpler to never add constants, and just build dice pools. Stat progression is 0, +1d4, +1d6, +1d8, +1d10, +1d12. Proficiency starts at +d4 and goes to +d12.

To be fair to @Retreater, if that's the normal level of tactical acumen the party shows, it's not a big surprise that they're also TPKing all the time. The rogue is the big offender here; if you won initiative on them, why not just use a ranged sneak attack and move away? Rogue should never be...

If you wanted to make it simpler, but also more fast-paced, you could also just gain the benefits of a long rest only when the characters level. 7-8 challenging encounters per level is around the average for my groups. I'll also add my normal caveat that powerful abilities (like spells)...

Yep. Strongest classes in 3.5 are wizard, cleric, druid, psion, and artificer in some order. Get rid of the PHB, get rid of XPH, and don't use artificer (other Eberron stuff is fine), and you've got a system with a ton of versatility but none of the Tier 1 abuse of standard 3.5

I mean, even if 5e had a coherent cosmology of "power sources" (it doesn't), 5e seems to lean pretty strongly towards class being more methodology and not a 1-to-1 linkage between class and power source. 5e fully supports having a primal or arcane themed paladin, instead of divine.

"Not gonna like" or the related phrase "I gotta be honest here" are both used as points of emphasis mixed with some humility. It's presenting a narrative of "I know I might come across as a little silly, or not very serious, but what I'm about to say now is actually something I want you to know...

Honestly, the best way to power down 3.X is to not use the PHB (outside of core game functions like skills). Only using books from 2004-2007 is much more balanced than PHB games.

NGL = "Not gonna lie"