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In my ideal world, short rests would be 5 minutes (or even 1 minute) with no cap. This would require some rebalancing for warlocks; at a rough cut, chop their spell slots in half and add a restriction that when you cast a spell using a warlock spell slot, its effects end immediately whenever...

It would be some very rare scenario, probably involving a feature of the environment; e.g., there is a door with a broken lock which the party desperately needs to close and lock before a boss monster comes through. In which case, the bladesinger player realizing "Wait, I can cast mending at...

Crossbow Expert does specifically override the loading property. That is literally the first bullet point of the feat: "You ignore the loading property of crossbows with which you are proficient."

Normally, when you cast a cantrip, you have to abide by its casting time: 1 action (which must be the Cast a Spell action), 1 bonus action, 1 minute, whatever. The bladesinger rule allows you to ignore this restriction and cast a spell in place of an attack. It would certainly be reasonable to...

It worked just fine in 4E. Enforcing two short rests per long rest can be done without variable-length rests (which are never going to happen in core D&D, and which I would never use for all the reasons @Mirrorrorrim lays out). I've been doing it for years: You leave long rests at 8 hours, set...

Agreed. The fundamental problem with short rests isn't that players need more incentive to use them -- it's that they require a calibrated level of time pressure. Too much pressure, and you won't take a short rest because you don't have time for one. Too little pressure, and you won't take a...

Props to the OP for including "Go back to the World Axis" as one of the poll options. As between Olympus and Arvandor... divine domains coexisting on the same layer is normal across the Great Wheel (except for the Abyss, where every two-bit demigod and demon lord wannabe has four layers and a...

Re logistics... I'm imagining an adventure where the PCs have tightly limited supplies and no easy way to recover them. If you run out of arrows, your bow doesn't work. Run out of food, you starve. Every day and every battle, your resources dwindle and it's a race to beat the villains before you...

Now that idea I like. If wizards had a very limited set of prepared spells -- like, fewer than a 2014 sorcerer -- but could swap them around with 1 minute of study, it would really heighten the wizard's flavor while at the same time putting reasonable limits on them. Yes, you are the king of...

Yes, the multiclass rules are still a hot mess.

None of us has those charts. Wizards doesn't publish that data. So we proles have to use the proxies available to us.

Agreed. I would like to see a lot of these invocations changed to "You have this spell effect continuously active on you. It can't be dispelled." This version is definitely headed in the right direction, just needs some more polish.

This is something they realized on the Magic: The Gathering side a while ago; I think Mark Rosewater has an article about it somewhere. Players generally try to accomplish the goal put in front of them, using whatever they believe to be the most effective means. If those means are tedious, they...

The new rule is written the way it is for a very simple and obvious reason: It allows you to create a character of any ancestry you like, without having to devise mechanics for splitting up or melding traits from the parent species (which would be a balance headache, take up extra page count...

If you don't intend to base your decision on reviews, and also have not absolutely decided one way or the other, then no accurate answer is possible and you're left with picking the least-wrong option. I wish people would stop inserting unnecessary qualifiers/explanations into poll options. It...

Cutting corners on the core of the brand, in order to hit an arbitrary release date, is what would be insane. It looks to me like a sensible strategy to maximize the total amount of development time. Get the PHB stuff squared away first, so you can release that at the tail end of 2024 and still...

@Charlaquin said this was "jumping the gun," not that it was "dumb." It was @Umbran who asserted, incorrectly, that Charlaquin was calling you dumb. You may disagree that it's jumping the gun, but maybe we could stick to what was actually said?

Out of the options given, I picked "yes" because it's closest to where I am, but that choice is not set in stone. I will buy the books unless the design takes a wild screeching turn from where it currently seems to be headed, or WotC does something like try to kill the OGL again. Of the changes...

If the answer to #2 is "no," then the answer to #1 is wrong.

4E hybrid classes.