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I would diagnose the problem a little differently than others: while it's pretty well understood what the vibes of a ranger are, the actual implementation can involve a lot of things. For example, I think rangers need access to all of these: 1. Archery 2. Two-weapon fighting 3. Druid magic 4...

I'll have yours then.

The other big benefit of Pact of the Blade is using charisma to attack - which you can sidestep via true strike but I wouldn't for two reasons: 1. if you multiclass, you'll miss out on the 5th-level damage bump everyone else is getting 2. I don't like changing core features partway through...

My first thought was a game of cards. But really any kind of simple entertainment makes sense. I guess it depends on how much detail you want to have - poker is fine if you don't really care, but you could go nuts and have them playing a waifu deckbuilder if the pcs bother to check.

“That must be a strange tavern.” “It’s the Mop and Bucket… the one we’ve been trying to keep the Princess out of.”

Because then all other races cannot have features any better than a feat and a skill point. Which barely captures what elves traditionally get, let alone more powerful races like genasi or centaurs. If level adjustment isn't an option, all races must be balanced, which is highly limiting terms...

The more common pushback on B/X race-as-class isn’t the existence of limitations but the limitations not making sense from a worldbuilding perspective. Moridin has no clerics? No halfling has ever dabbled in magic? All elves have the same balance of magic and swordplay - but Wood Elves never...

I think the best way to have your cake and eat it too is to have different classes for each race: humans are fighters, clerics, rogues, wizards or monks, but elves are bladesingers, rangers, high mages or... clerics of elven gods (each god gets their own class though.) [Elves were one of the...

And for an elf - do they remember where they were when the heard Archduke Ferdinand was assasinated?

I realized I could make dragonborn and kolbolds two subraces of the same species, but at that point I'm feel like it's more "taxonomy shenanigans to fit an arbitrary limit" than an honest attempt at the question.

I struggled a bit with this one: Obviously the most popular species need to be there: 1. Human 2. Elf 3. Dragonborn 4. Tiefling To skirt the rules a bit, I'll include half-elves as a subrace of elves, and make Tiefling a subrace of Planetouched - which lets me squeeze in Aasimar as a core...

The most recent data seems to be 2023, which had dragonborn in third place. I would need some real evidence to believe they’ve dropped below fourth.

Given that dragonborn score very well in broader surveys, I think this says more about ENWorlders than it does about DnD players.

And then when new players join, they're spoon-fed everything regardless of whether they need it (as new players, they probably don't know how much they want to be spoon-fed anyways, so they don't object because they don't know better) and develop the habit of waiting for the dm to spoon-feed...

And? Like don't play with unreasonable players, don't play with controlling dms. It's not rocket surgery. If you meet a player who won't compromise, move on. If you have such an issue with every player - it might be you.

If you want to keep slots at all levels while giving away free upcasts, you're going to need to find a way to make running out of spells much more common or just tell your players not to play non-full-casters. Wizards are already considered the strongest class in 5e*, with the only real...

Another thing I've noticed: when discussing player agency and dm agency on fora, we tend to try to find a "just" answer that applies in all but extreme scenarios and respects absolute values and rights and so on. In real life, in 99% of cases, both the player and dm have at least moderate...

I think this is where the pushback is coming from you not liking the "leader role" in 4e - 4e "leaders" generally only gave other players free stuff, they never forced you to use your actions in certain ways. They might change circumstances which could change what options you might choose - but...

And to realize as a dm that if no one want to play in your game, that's on you to deal with.

Phase spider are the first thing that comes to mind when I think of ethereal monsters and they're monstrosities. I guess the answer is "not according to the game rules" though of course you can always homebrew.