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Gnomes, like monks, will be pried out of my cold dead hands. Huh.. I've never played a gnome monk before.

With the approval of the creators, I would hope! I wish there was a tier between the 19 and 11 item bundles because I want most of what's in it, but I already have your MME in both PDF and Roll20.

Please. Like it or not, there's no denying that dogwhistling racists will latch onto any changes WOTC makes to grift. Even if they'd never heard of Dark Sun prior.

While it was not a player character, one of my favorite stories elements in my Dark Sun campaign was a Templar of Tyr who still had her pact blade and magic from Kalak even after his death, and how one of the PCs was constantly butting heads with her but also slowly working with her to unpack...

I don't think that's the point. The point is WOTC probably doesn't want to have a setting where chattel slavery is such a prominent aspect of the setting. Retconning them to be serfs is a metatextual choice but it's also entirely justifiable within the fiction for the logistical reasons.

Basically this, and it goes for the Warden, Avenger, and Invoker as well. The general problem with trying to take what was a class in previous iterations of the game and fold them into a subclass in 5E is that the design space for the core class will always crowd out the parts that many fans...

Keeping it isn't a hill I care to die on, just like slavery... but it's not like Dark Sun was saying 'Eugenics is good'. It was a thing that happened and there are people born of it, but I never got the sense that it was meant to be anything but more evidence of how the society was evil and...

Elves have always been terrible! They beget terror.

I mean... with 4E you don't have to. The designers already did that.

There isn't, but the game has open content and a wiki for it is being slowly put together.

I can't speak for people in general but I find them fine in a vacuum. I like how Tieflings and Goliaths have been expanded with new lineages. Out of the context of WOTC-created material, they're kind of underwhelming when other 5E variants and games like Draw Steel are doing interesting stuff...

Huh. In my experience, low damage and longer fights makes things feel like a slog. The most exciting fights I've ever run or played in D&D are ones where both players and monsters were hitting like a Japanese truck sensing an otaku in the road. The tension is higher when you have more risk.

I feel like the sentiment itself is unwarranted TBH. Plenty of nerfs did go through for the new PHB. Action Surge no longer allows spells, Divine Smite eats your bonus action, and busted spells like Forcecage got nerfed. I think the bigger problem was the accidental (?) new OP stuff like Conjure...

If you're willing to go for some classic games based on older rules, you also can't go wrong with the Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced editions and the two Pathfinder games, Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous.

Whatever the players want. Strongholds, spaceships, armies, luxury resorts in fantasy Penzance...

I think 5E levels are fine. I'm playing a campaign converted from Pathfinder and the loot in that is so excessive it's utterly ridiculous.

Possibly! My weapon loadout before the game converted from A5E to D&D kind of locked me into the Hurricane subclass and it kiiind of feels like something that was playtested at lower levels without considering how it scaled at high level.

He does, but even his natural abilities as a martial artist surpass most D&D wizards. Granted it's not entirely a fair comparison given that blowing up the moon was a very early feat in Dragon Ball. I'm just using it as an illustration of how power scaling in D&D could be different. If a high...

Oh hell yeah!

Sure, but if you can snipe a sparrow dead with a longbow from 100 yards then who is more powerful? Or think of it like Goku and Babidi. The former is a very powerful spellcaster but I don't think anyone would describe him as 'stronger' than Goku.