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They are on par with the ones in Heroes of Faerun. Make of that what you will. They are flavorful, but many are limited use to 1/rest or prof per day. Most could stand a few more uses per session. I could see using some, but if you are an optimizer, you'll probably pass.

The orcs are reframed as nomads, wandering without a homeland after the bad deal made to Gruumsh. Many are pressed into service by evil rulers or resort to banditry to survive, but others trade, herd, or act as mercenaries.

Well, for starters it creates the biological essentialism argument that a dwarf born an orphan and never having contact with other dwarves would still instinctively speak dwarves, have an affinity for axes and hammers, feel an connection to dwarven gods he's never met, and probably will speak...

Close. We're still using "dwarf" as a culture though. There is no "dwarf" culture. There is Mythral Hall or the Great Rift of other lands with high dwarf populations that have cultures that people might regard as "dwarven" but other species who grew up in Mythral Hall would have those same...

Maybe we can go further and make all dwarf PCs the same class. Like a dwarf class you have to take. Same with an elf and halfling class. That works for you?

What would work is to clearly define it as a macro to micro level. I am a dwarf (species). I grew up in Waterdeep (culture). I am a blacksmith (background). The first defines my biological abilities (size, speed, senses), the second defines the world I grew up in (religion, language...

I want some of those horror UA subs first. I'm torn between a shadow sorcerer, necromancer wizard or undead warlock.

A place can be savage. A people should not. I don't get the hulabaloo. We have a Savage Attacker feat in the PHB. People can use context to determine the difference between "the Savage North" and "orcs are savages."

Essentially. I'm suggesting that some setting (most likely Forgotten Realms) is the explicit setting of D&D and the supplements and adventures all use Faerun as the default lore. So you can have a book like Tome of Foes that talks about elf culture using Faerun as the touchstone rather than try...

Better idea, fix save-based scaling DCs to be EITHER Prof OR Ability score so that they don't require massive save scaling to stay relevant.

1 species, 16 feats, 3 backgrounds. Plus 5 monsters. Alacarte*, that's 25 x $2.00 = $50. $40 if you skip the monsters (who are rather cool IMHO). * Yes that is a dhampir joke

No, I'm talking about how the D&D core books are left "setting neutral" because they are trying to sell you seven different settings and they are all covered an inch deep. The PHB can't explain elven culture on Faerun because it's trying to hard to create an elf that works in Faerun, Oerth...

FOR EXAMPLE. I'm saying if you want to take a full audit of how often the game calls for a particular saving throw, you better open the Monster Manual alongside the spell chapter.

Sounds like power creep. Unless you are removing those extra proficiency from classes.

2014 I can see, but WotC didn't use that because they were still trying to push the multiverse. The elf section doesn't talk about sun and moon elf culture, or strongheart and lightfoot cultures for halflings. We get some human ethnicities but they are divorced from the lands they dwell in, the...

But you have to root those cultures in the world. For example, gold dwarves are more isolated, have a great warrior culture, worships the dwarf God of war, have waged a war against aberrations and speaks the languages under dark species, that makes sense IN FAERUN ONLY. But you can't put gold...

For the best unfortunately. The only people I trust less than WotC when it comes to balance is the community..

While true, it's important to note that there are non-spell abilities like grapples or mind blasts of monsters that also target weak saves (just as there are non-magical effects that target strong saves). Just using spells isn't a clear indicator of how to balance saves.

That seems like either a madcap romp using the BoEF or an actual rule in FATAL...

Really? Pray tell which? Greyhawk? Forgotten Realms? I could see the argument for that in 2014 and the Realms, but even then the core didn't give enough info to develop cultures with. Unless you are referring again to "elf" being a culture and we're back to where we started. Might as well give...