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The Three Musketeers doesn't have the fighter vs wizard problem though. My point is that any solution to the power discrepancy of magic vs martial that gunpowder can provide will ultimately be disappointing to the people who have a problem with the discrepancy of magic vs martial.

Well if what people like about fighters is the swording, then making them more effective by giving them something that makes swords irrelevant isn't exactly the fix they're looking for.

shudder Please no. I don't even trust WotC to be good stewards of the property they own, let alone anyone else's IP. Fantasy Flight is still a thing, even if they aren't independent anymore. I'm fine with them licensing it out if they just want to stick to making card games now, but I'd...

Sounds like Dragonstar, and I already have Dragonstar (not that I would mind an update, I just wouldn't want that update to take the place of Spelljammer or Planescape).

There are differences. If wizards are rare, then they have better things to do than be living artillery for some jerkwad noble. If wizards aren't rare, then for every spell in offense, there is a defense. Cannons can't really be defended against other than by changing how fortifications work...

Interestingly, it was really more of a black and grey and grey calling itself white setting. Most of the good guys being self-centered dicks was kind of a big element in the original trilogy, and in the second trilogy, the priestess in the party was an arrogant snob.

It'd be a shame if they couldn't be. Empowerment is a fantastic thing, but there should be room for overcoming adversity for those who feel comfortable roleplaying such things. For that matter, succeeding or failing at overcoming one's own flaws should be on the table as well. Not saying that...

That was one of my favorite d20 games, and I still have all the books for it. I'd love to see an updated version of it one day. I remember trying to implement mecha from the d20 adaptation of Heavy Gear.

I'd rather they not "fix" the races (other than the gully dwarves, and mostly I'd "fix" them by ignoring their existence) but rather use their quirks as an excuse to experiment. They're already halfway there with their kender write-up. The way that the deviations from D&D norms work in...

They don't really. Not to that extent. The source of power thing is all fluff, so changing it doesn't change the game mechanically at all. Granted, they almost certainly will cleave to the core rules even to the detriment of the setting, but that's just because WotC has very much been going...

I'm fairly certain that if I want a 5E Dragonlance setting to be unique or interesting in any way, I'm going to have to take any material WotC publishes as a starting point, subject to heavy revision based upon TSR era material. As usual.

Sentient vines that wrap themselves around a "skeleton" formed from fallen branches or whatever other light structures they can find. When living in proximity to tool using races, they often commission specially made frames for better mobility. Sentient moss that grow onto and into the bodies...

In my opinion, that question itself is the problem. I'm of the opinion that worldbuilding hats shouldn't be one size fits all. Dragonlance already has its own cosmology and doesn't need to borrow from other settings or meta-settings. I'm fine with explicit meta-settings like Planescape or...

I'd make it semi-narrative in nature. Largely, it'd be similar to the UA article, but instead of being purely random, I'd word it as the kender pulling out an item relevant to the situation (with perhaps a chance as to whether it's detrimental instead of helpful). Whatever the item is, it...

Well the astral plane - especially in the context of psionics - is the plane of thought. So you're basically saying that a psion's thought construct is constructed of thought stuff.

I'd vote for the kenku (they've been in D&D for over 40 years, so I think they're traditional enough), but that would probably face resistance from a different direction since they're basically a stand-in for the Japanese tengu. Personally, I think they're just kind of cool, and I like them...

Crafted by a group of adventurous taxidermists.

A pair of trousers with pockets dimensions A treant seed A broken clock that will accurately answer a single question about the indoor room it sits in twice daily A small sack of gold coins that can be used to track any coin removed from it. Each coin can only be used once before losing its...

Honestly, I think it takes either good fiction or at least well thought out world building that incorporates a race. Or it takes something as simple as "dragons are cool." But just releasing a book with a bunch of races with short write ups isn't going to do it for me, which is why I never got...

Worth noting that 2E tieflings were nothing like the theme park devils with quirky names that 4E/5E present. A 2E tiefling was just a human with some fiendish ancestry, and every one was unique and often passable as human with varying degrees of effort. You could have a tiefling that didn't...