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How are you defining "exploiting the rules"?

It was an ecosystem largely built on their land that they had opened up to the public themselves. - They weren't expecting people to build large commercial properties competing with them on their own land when they did so. When they tried to reel back in some of the rights to their land, they...

Path of the beast Barbarian only gets one of these abilities that they choose each time you rage. So you get either tail, or bite, or Claws. You'll get three claw attacks at 5th level if you pick claws for that rage. There are options for dragonborn to get flight at level 5 by virtue of their...

Only amongst the Rogues subclasses however. The S-Tier Rogue subclass is not S- or even A- Tier when compared to other classes, particularly casters. Most of the reason that it is considered one of the best Rogue subclasses is that it gets spells. Ideally we would want the Arcane Trickster to...

Publishing a work under the OGL permits you to use the Creator Content Badge. These display the iconic WotC D&D ampersand symbol. It would be entirely possible for a work covered by the OGL to be associated with Hasbro by the public. Indeed, since most people aren't going to have an in depth...

There is no reason that, if in 2035 something that was OK in 2020 is viewed as hateful, the OGL wouldn't restrict it. What will serve to limit NuTSR's content in 2024 will work against hateful content in the 2035 as well, as long as WotC can make it stick.

What would likely happen is that the stuff that people were generally satisfied by probably would not change much, just as we've seen. However rather than the more directed changes that we've seen in things like Dragonborn and Ardlings, where the changes were informed by the written survey...

So, if person A puts in the money to research to develop a new product (including all the lines of research that didn't turn out successful), gets it certified and put through the safety checks, it is fine for company B to then start manufacturing and selling that project at a greater profit...

"Arcane Half-caster" covers a multitude of concepts. Unless this is to be purely a form-filling exercise, something more specific may me needed. This was the start of a rough draft I did of the Swordmage as an Artificer subclass: D&D 5E - Giving the arcane gish an identity.

I think that the issue people are running into is the difference between D&D jargon and natural English use of the word. Intimidate in D&D isn't necessarily just scaring someone. It is scaring someone into doing something specific that you want. A low-charisma thug is someone people tend to...

I'm not seeing the need TBH. I do not view spellcasting in stealth is not a vital part of the Ranger toolkit. If you want to play some kind of outdoor, guerrilla, stealth warrior without spells, you can do that, but if you want the power and utility of spells by playing a Ranger, you should be...

Unless it is part of my actual campaign plot, the only time I will deviate from published lore is where it is contradicted by the actual author of the setting. However, this is an Eberron game. I would probably feel differently about a more generic world like Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms.

While I'd like to see the power and versatility of high-end casters reduced a little, this is an awkward and fiddly way to go about it. I'd prefer the current system. Although the thought strikes that one way to reduce the power of Wizards while keeping their flavour and historical...

The Rune knight is a class with Giant-themed abilities. The Goliath is a Race with Giant-themed abilities. The existence of one, does not prevent the existence of the other.

More that the issue is the fundamental systems of what spells themselves can do. I feel that all casters have this issue to some extent, it is just more prevalent in the Wizard because they get to use more spells. Arcane recovery is most definitely not "nothing else". With casters such as...

In overall class design, the wizard is not problematic: it is a fairly well-designed class. The issue that I have found is that spells are very versatile and powerful, and Wizards are Best at Spells. Wizards get brought up as the main example in martial vs caster discussions because they are the...

If I remember rightly, all "humans" with the Mark of Finding have some orcish blood. Just not always enough to qualify mechanically as a half-orc.

Not many groups play where spell conservation is important. If you only have a couple of encounters a day, then putting a bless up then smiting on crits and primary targets gets you further than having spells left at the end of the day. Also remember that a smite is guaranteed damage, which...

Mechanus is a plane devoted to order and balance. It has no real artificer/steampunk connection: the closest its gets to that are the turning cogs that are a representation of Order in it. Inventing (creating something new) an item that changes its form seems pretty anti ethical to Mechanus. If...

Anti-magic effects are rare, and Paladins rarely have spells dangerous enough to want to counter or dispel, so the actual rules interactions that distinguish spells and other abilities shouldn't be an issue most of the time. Most buffs like Bless or Heroism could be flavoured as inspiring or...