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if you have an issue with circus troupe parties, how much better do you find it when the troupe is an accurate sample of the setting's populations? like, if the world is filled with harengon, firbolgs, genasi, autognomes and centaurs as the majority of population, does that take the edge off the...

this does however presume a degree of willingness to abandon whatever the existing plot/setup was going to be (or to of not had any in the first place i guess)

i'm not saying other classes shouldn't have competent skill access, it sounds like the 3e fighter was underfunded in it's skill access, i'm just saying that the role of the 'thief' class has traditionally often been the one to excel in both competency and breadth in their access of a system's...

in a built for 5e setting, i feel like most major settlements ought be populated by at minimum three different species,

although i've been referring to the class as the thief i'm more referring to them as their role as that 'high-skill class' you're mentioning,

yes, a fighter or mage could use skills, but in the same way that a fighter of thief could learn to use magic or a thief or mage could become strong combatants, they could do that but they wouldn't be as good as the other class, the point is they're specialists, a greater portion of their kit is...

If there were rules written to screw casters about as much as fumble rules screw the martials I’d expect them to say something like ‘whenever you cast a spell above 1st roll a d20 no modifiers, for every spell level above 1st there’s a cumulative 5% chance your spell explodes in your face for...

Except they’re not doing that, because there isn’t a ‘wings’ or ‘gills’ cantrip and it is never even vaguely insinuated they’re altering their bodies with magic, they fly and breathe water respectively by having physical adaptations they are born with, expecting a species to constantly be...

honestly the main elf subspecies probably do make more sense as cultures than subspecies, then for actual subspecies you could go with a land-sea-sky dynamic with eladrin(maybe they also get to steal +5ft from wood elves), sea elves and winged elves.

i think it lines up fairly well with the theme of the conversation, a better point of what i said besides pointing out the double standard is that yes you could do it, and you could find a justification to make it 'realistic', but would that be a fun thing to do? and the answer for the majority...

i really think species should be designed with enough mechanical depth and features that if you removed all description of the characters besides what it is they're doing/is happening to them they would still be distinct enough that you could still tell from the average fight what species each...

and it makes sense to me that trying to sculpt the wild energies of more complex and higher level magics would have a bigger chance of backfiring and in worse ways but magic rebound tables aren't exactly being made commonplace are they? wizards don't have a progressively better chance to reduce...

just because you can only play in one setting at a time that has no relation to why people wouldn't want more settings to choose from, more settings offer more themes and concepts to play with, different settings can have their worlds focused on different things and have different dynamics using...

while true, i feel that if they do make a 5e setting i really feel they need to give it a distinct flavour of it own that's more than just 'classic sword and sorcery fantasy land' again, i fully admit i care very little about lore but of the settings and places i do know anything about, well...

FFX is the game that always first comes to mind for me when referencing the series personally, it being the only major non-handheld entry i've put significant time into, but if we're including artificer and 5.5's guns that entry feels pretty apt with magic and tech both being prominent in that...

i could see a '5e setting' going in a very Final Fantasy direction, that tends towards modernistic high magic multiculturalism settings, with a good splash of magictech or even just straight up tech often thrown in there too, please give us default artificer. even if they're not PHB player...

i don't see why still being in that 'background lifestyle' would thus mean they shouldn't have the mechanical features of said background, if anything it makes more sense to me that they should have them.

okay, but that's not because it doesn't make sense for them not to have them, that's just on you and everyone else who neglects their NPCs lifestyles.

Good thing this is 5th edition then and 1st is entirely irrelevant to the discussion

but the things i mentioned didn't come from neither class nor levels, species and background are things i would fundamentally expect every 0th level character to have(barring perhaps background for very young children), you can't exist and not have a species, how can you live your life and not...