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Another trait/limited ability idea: A Sacrifice I am willing to make When the BBEG is attacked, as a reaction, the attack is instead directed against a minion adjacent to the BBEG or the attacker. Optional (Recharge 5-6): Treat any hits as critical hits, but until the end of the attacker's turn...

I liked the 4E take on them. IIRC, they were still lucky, but in the implied Points of Light setting, they were commonly found at and on rivers, traveling with boats, transporting people and goods. They will meet many different people from possibly all walks of life that wish to use their...

There might be power set similiarities, but also stark differences - because that book doesn't describe the guy getting into armed fights a lot (armor or no armor, he isn't beating people with bludgeoning instruments!), and dealing with dungeons or dragons. I don't think he canonically hurt...

I am no DnD 5 Expert, but I would actually see this less a question of teleport and more a rule of line of effect for spells. Generally you can't target stuff without line of effect, can you?

Regarding the question of what to do when the government agency gives me a task I refuse to do: I would say that any government agency working with me would need to be careful not because I think my power would corrupt me (but it might, I don't know!) to do terrible things, but because they...

But isn't that inconsistent? On one hand, an extra +1 or +2 in battle - where you make a lot of attacks - doesn't matter, but an extra +1 or +2 on checks you make very rarely matters a lot? And it even only applies if you're the one called on to make these checks. The Rogue is still going to...

The "trick" is that the impact on balance is however felt the most in combat. Because it still is a signifcant part of the game, and it can kill the character if the party is bad at it. Your correct if all characters can roll for a single check, you can easily have the situation that the guy...

My personal experience tells me different. It takes surprisingly little attacks to figure out a monster's likely AC, one guy misses, the next has just 3 more and its a hit. The DM doesn't need to reveal DCs or ACs for that to become obvious. Pathfinder 2E is always about that little +1 that...

I think I only played a Halfling once, but I have no recollection of how long or what the adventures were. I played a Kobold Sorceror for a Ptolus campaign. Manobarax was fun. I don't remember if I ever played a Dwarf, I might have, but no specific memories of what that character might have...

Well, he became Starfleet Captain and did he ever return to Iowa? I really had to, didn't I?

Do they have a miniature giant space loxodans on their back, and a miniature giant disc on their backs, with a miniature small sun circling around it?

I kinda want to see what players would do with that. Why not be all superheroes for once? I guess multiclassing will become a lot more attractive...

I think that kinda represents a move from the players always fighting a monster, versus the characters fighting against other people? I don't know if that was always the case, or true in all campaigns, but I think most combats in games involve fighting against opposition that are vaguely...

Even though I have heard about the roots of D&D, I never internalized them! Though I still thought - Fireballs are kinda like grenades, and was something for that to be some kind of wizardry-alchemy thing maybe for a lower-fantasy setting.

Keeping on a secret identity (especially in our age), have a regular job, and still find time to deal with crimes? That is really a hard ask. Unless I don't need much sleep with my superpowers. Regarding weakness, though: I think if we assume the real world, but something like Kryptonite and...

Oh, good point, another quintessential Wizard that isn't actually a Wizard, at least not like D&D has them. One could argue that the D&D Wizard might have been misnamed. Where do Fireball spells even come from? Is that part of the Vancian legacy? I don't think Tolkien or Wizards from folklore...

Ah, the "but Gandalf, the quintessential Wizard character that most fantasy fans know about, isn't a Wizard, but a Majar, so you shouldn't use them as inspiration for your Wizard class!" approach. It isn't always relevant...

Yeah, that sounds a bit... unlikeable, calling people out as munchkins (which seems to be used more as an insult, I don't really know anyone using the term positively, except maybe in fond memories of how silly they were back in the days or something) just because they like an edition he doesn't.

As an example - If you use D&D to play a low-fantasy world, and disallow or restrict people to no or half-spellcaster classes and only humans are playable races, I understand the rationale for it, but I think you'd lose a lot of variety in the game that is needed to make it feel as rich as...

That might be true, but if no one else asked for this, why worry that more would do it then and it sets a bad precedent? Maybe the topic is really too hypothetical, too much assuming "it's just some random dude on the internet asking, not one of my actual players"? I don't know. What's also...