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Armpit Fiend Eldritch Qanon Melf's Minute Mediators Pass Without Face Tenser's Fleeing Disk (it runs from you after you summon it)

I don't even know how to respond to this. We have rules so that the game is 'fair' (for whatever difficulty the players and DM agree to) and it's not just a playground game of 'nuh-uh, my monster is totally immune to your spell!' You think the rules should reflect the fiction? Sure, I agree to...

Bows might since a full draw puts more energy into the arrow than a partial draw.

It's not a contradiction. I'm saying that in-universe there's no difference; the difference only exists in the game mechanics. In universe there's no such thing as a spell called Arcane Burst, it's just an abstraction that this the Archmage did (or failed to do on a miss) that much damage with...

There is no narrative distinction! The whole point is that there's no such thing as an NPC or PC in-universe. Why do some NPCs have things PC rules don't replicate? Because it's convenient for gameplay. The DM can justify it through the narrative however they want, or change the NPC stats if...

Okay, that is certainly one way of interpreting what I said. Not a way I'd consider good faith, but a way, certainly.

Genetic mutation, quirk of magic, chosen by a very picky goddess, made a dumb deal with a demon that nobody else was stupid enough to make...

It's a neat teaching aid but I think it would be a pain in the butt to maintain for a long term game, as a physical product anyway. It would be neat to have something like this as a 'beginners mode' version of the Character sheet on D&D Beyond.

I'd probably use an existing stat block like the Bard, Legendary from Monster Manual Expanded 3 (CR 8, but its got low HP and I can knock off the Legendary Actions and it'll be fine.) Or Edgin Darvis from Honor Among Thieves (CR 5) Or just make one myself:

Just to backtrack for a moment: a proposed solution to the Multiclassing issue might be to raise the requirements. For starters, each class gets two ASIs like Paladin, Monk, and Ranger: one at 15 and one at 13. Each additional class you add causes these numbers to increase by +1 (maybe +2? Not...

Somewhere between the A5E Turnpike and the Daggerheart Causeway.

I mean I'd wager there are Paladin players who don't like the nerf to Smite.

You know I'm also unhappy with the change to Counterspell but I feel like this is an unwarranted level of salt over it. 😅

Since people are giving more specific thoughts: Species should have been Ancestry, but the options are fine. I like that Cthonic and Abyssal tieflings are core, I like having multiple Goliath lineages even if some of them have off-putting pastel color schemes. Not a fan of how backgrounds have...

Seriously. The Ricochet weapon action in TOTV had me considering making a sling-based fighter but then I realized that 1d4 damage just wasn't worth it.

I've seen way more PCs die in 5E than I ever did in 4E.

Surely that can't include Coutnerspell.

Yeah it would have to be built from the ground up with these things in mind, including the ability to disable things from the compendium that you don't want.

What if I say they have notes about how they did it but they're the indecipherable, idiosyncratic scrawlings of a singularly gifted savant? I get wanting consistency but there are some things PCs just shouldn't have access to. Just as there are PC abilities that NPCs shouldn't get, if for no...

Makes me wish there was a generic 5E VTT engine where I could take a grab bag of what I like from every version of the game.