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I would always just wing it on the Wealth stuff in d20 Modern. Some scrutiny of the damage mechanic might be warranted. I would tend toward using a massive damage threshold, with maybe some adjustment to allow for knockouts. Keep it optional. It could be justified on the grounds that the...

I have no idea how well some of these setting reboots would sell. My guess is that no one under 40 would be pushing for another Greyhawk or Dragonlance reboot, and every time they do one, half of that group thinks they did it wrong. Obviously, when I'm talking about a product like UA 5e being...

You may be right, but I look at the vast new audience of D&D players in the past ten years and see this as something very accessible to them. By comparison, something like Dragonlance is not going to be easily approached by the casual or newbie gamer.

Just looking at Urban Arcana, which is somehow 17 years old. That right there, 100%, should be a priority project for WotC, as a D&D campaign sourcebook. And as a D&D sourcebook, it should be 100% compatible with the existing system. My current thinking is that real world "mundanes" could...

Right. Although it's tempting to experiment with letting a familiar advance as a sidekick.

Yeah, I guess I'd have no objection to a lighter staff that's a finesse weapon, but I would be reluctant to set that work with PAM. I'd just work up a magic staff that uses Int instead of Str. You could sell a lot of those!

Well, that's one way to come at it, but so much of the sprite's combat effectiveness requires those poisoned arrows . . .

I love staffsingers, especially if you think of it as just an arcanist martial art. Sages and various minor magic-users learn the basics of staff fighting, and a few melee-friendly cantrips, the same way a modern-day desk jockey might take a self-defense class or do a little tai chi or Tae-bo...

What would you do about a sprite sidekick's supply of poisoned arrows? Weirdly, the basic MM sprite doesn't have any skills or proficiencies to back up the flavor text about how they brew these poisons from simple natural ingredients. At least some sidekick classes would get around that, and...

How about an awakened gazer sidekick? 1000 pounds of egomaniacal abomination, squeezed into an eight-inch sphere.

Thought it through, did some research . . . blink dog warrior, all the way. Speaks Blink Dog, understands Sylvan. 10 Intelligence, but will still play fetch because the people seem to enjoy it. Take the defensive combat option --- blink and bite, blink and bite. Probably needs to invest in...

Actually, that blink dog sidekick looks better and better. 10 Intelligence, speaks Blink Dog, and understands Sylvan but not Common, so maybe some communication issues with the rest of the party, and maybe the ridiculousness of a human / humanoid trying to speak Blink Dog. As a defensive...

A few ideas I'm knocking around . . . 1. Using the sidekick rules . . . a sage. I've had the notion since I first read about sages in the 1e DMG. Take all the Intelligence skills, and the default in combat is that he dodges every round and uses Help as a bonus action as much as possible. Do...

Don't Expert sidekicks still get a Help-boost? I really like the notion of a purely sidekicky sidekick, who just dodges and helps.

Moon Knight? And there could be a bit of a Feywild vibe here, both because that is described as a realm of perpetual twilight and because of the association between fey and states of transition/borders --- crossroads, edges of the forest, etc.

That tavern the party gets in the Waterdeep setting? The whole campaign shifts to focus on running a small business in a fantasy world. Bob's Burgers meets Lankhmar. I have some kind of Fringe-meets-Johnny Quest-meets-Buckaroo Banzai thing percolating . . . globetrotting adventure and science...

And bladesinging. Think about that. Same mechanics, but imagine that it's a tradition of self-defense staff fighting practiced by blind wizards.

If I understand correctly . . . Tasha's Cauldron will introduce a new fighting style granting blindsight, and a feat that allows any character to take a fighting style. According to the SRD, "A creature with blindsight can perceive its surroundings without relying on sight, within a specific...

I always wanted to play a very old dwarf who still thought it was first edition, and insisted that there's no such thing as a half-orc bard or a warlock or a dragonborn.

Just reminding everyone that giant goats are Challenge Rating 1/2, and therefore can be played as sidekicks. They are stubborn, sure-footed, and non-picky eaters. You can ride them like horses. They are extremely loud. If you're running a Ravenloft campaign, your goat sidekick can be named...