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Honestly, the impression I get is that pretty much all the ubiquity of the Heroes of the Lance is in the nostalgia banks of people my age (coughmidfortiescough) and older. I’ve just started up a Dragonlance campaign, running it for a group assembled from a Facebook ‘looking for group’ post...

I've seen that done many times in 3rd party products. Kobold Press does a bit of it, for instance. I suppose the main exploit case is using multiple Counterspells in one round and completely shut down an encounter with magic-heavy enemies. But often i've seen restrictions on what you can use...

The hammer of koscitzche (?) is a cool concept though. If it was me, I'd just ask my DM if I could take a custom variant of Repelling Blast that worked with my pact blade instead of my Eldritch Blast.

Yeah, I was recently considering something like this for my paladin's 12th level feat. Maybe pick up Riposte or Brace to try to get a bit more damage output, another chance to smite in a round is a pretty big deal. Obviously as a paladin you can only take one of superior technique/martial...

A fighting style and a feat seems to me like a huge investment to be able to use two maneuvers per short rest.

The extraordinarily limited nature of Superior Technique (and the Martial Adept feat) baffle me, I have to admit. Magic Adept gives you two cantrips and a 1st level spell, there's fighting styles that give you two cantrips (and all cantrips scale as you gain levels, and are of unlimited use) -...

Blindfighting is pretty handy for a drow or tiefling who can drop Darkness on themselves. Hell, it's even useful for a drow in bright sunlight - if they're sufficiently close to the enemy, they can just close their eyes and remove the Sunlight Sensitivity penalty.

I'm not allowing reckless attack or rage damage with Dex, after some thought. I think he's more likely to go elk or eagle style, for extra mobility and because they fit the character better than bear. I haven't played with this guy before, but so far he's shown a willingness to bypass some of...

Silvara was the dragon i was referring to in the above quote. In the Chronicles novels she sticks to the silver-haired female wood elf form, firstly because it's a long-established role that she was trying to maintain, and later because the guy she fell in love with fell in love with her in...

I was reading an old Dragonlance novel recently in which a dragon was experimenting with what humanoid forms she could change into. She could certainly choose some details of her humanoid appearance, but was frustrated because she could not become less than conventionally attractive, even when...

For what it's worth, we did session zero yesterday. The inspiration is clearly a Warhammer wardancer. After reading all the input in this thread (thanks everyone), I was ok with the player choosing to go dex-based. Str 12, Dex 18, two short swords. He went with eladrin rather than wood elf...

That's not quite true, at least for those portions of Williams' tenure at TSR which are post-Gary. The narrative of the events leading up to Gary's ouster from TSR certainly are largely based on he-said-she-didn't-say, but that's not the be-all and end-all of Williams' tenure. There's been...

It's a cool idea. Especially appropriate for a fiend pact, where the patron would EXPECT his warlock to tempt people with little bits of power in exchange for favours. The implementation is very very weak though.

Oh yeah, definitely. The subclass is borderline overpowered on its own. I was never even considering allowing both it and rage bonus damage to Dex attacks on the same character.

In general in D&D, and in this campaign in particular, I mostly view abilities at levels over about 14-15 as pretty much academic. 99% of campaigns won't get that far, and this one I certainly intend to be winding up in the low-mid teen level range.

That was my impression. And the DMsGuild subclass I linked in the OP has a 6th-level ability that costs an action to apply disadvantage against all incoming attacks for 1 minute - I have some definite balance concerns about that one. Still, I think the player is fairly intent on playing a...

Fair question. Wizard, warlock, warlord (the Kibblestasty one), and one undecided at this point, possibly paladin. One of my main balance concerns is if i houserule to make Dex attacks work with rage etc, the barbarian might end up TOO tanky, and to seriously threaten them I'd have to use...

There was a (now-deleted) Facebook post in official Kobold Press channels that said something like ‘we’re no longer in the business of making gaming material out of someone else’s culture’. There was then several offers by Asian writers to contribute. I’ve got no idea where, if anywhere, that...

Depends on the campaign, really. Here's the character creation house rules for the Dragonlance game that I'm starting up this week - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DzcJHVcBdBhUKlBeYhIay8o7ZSH9O8v5/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116758860872678777448&rtpof=true&sd=true There's a mix there, race...

That was my concern. But pretty much all finesse fighters/rangers etc already do that anyway. It’s not exactly seamless because barbarians don’t get a fighting style, so he’d only be doing base weapon damage with a off-hand weapon unless he spent a feat to get the Two Weapon Fighting style...