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I'm pretty satisfied with what is core. Blade singer would need to be reimagined as it is too powerful and dance bard fills the archetype well. War mage is uninteresting to me. It has similar issues to fighter subclasses not having flavour. Order of scribes is an interesting thought but I...

I believe in 2014 an "attack" was defined by being an attack roll but now it is not as clear Though under "attack" it still says make an attack roll with a weapon or unarmed strike. Then under unarmed strike it gives 3 options and 2 aren't attack rolls so yeah could be more clear. The main...

You don't make an attack roll if you grapple or shove. The opponent just makes the save.

Pg 376 top right under unarmed strikes. Bull rush and shove aside are no longer things as far as I am aware though. But then if you shove prone I think you can then move past? I need to look that up.

You could also do the same for species and even classes. Just pick and choose what sorts of abilities you want for your unique vision.

At that point just don't tie them to anything. I really like that they used the design space of backgrounds to make them impactful. It is much easier for tables to play without them than it is to make them from scratch.

It provides something with narrative weight that I prefer and for those who don't prefer it they can just assemble the background features however they want. It is win/win. I think backgrounds are my 2nd favourite thing about 2024. The first being getting rid of unnecessarily complicated...

There is a distinct difference between an entity choosing to provide something to the character and the character manifesting their power themselves through their belief.

D&D is a class based system. Why have them at all? Because a lot of people want to embrace the class based system. I highly dislike point based games. I want buckets that represent something in the narrative. And if people don't like them it's super easy for them to just pick and choose...

That would be like making a walking check. Most creatures have climb speeds that are equal to their walking speed. It works like swim and fly speeds. They can just do it.

Would you do the same for species? Have players look at the species and pick out the abilities they want?

That raises a fun question. How would a party appraise a magic item? What do you compare it to? How do you know exactly how hard it is to make if you haven't made it before? How do you determine how useful it is? Seems like these are things for the party to answer if they are interested in...

In Ravenloft moral and immoral actions have a special power and consequence to them. It is the demiplane of Dread so it has its own rules of reality like other planes. So I don't see it as The Dark Powers granting the spells in the way that their god would but rather that the nature of the...

I think it is fine for just breaking into a solo to be riskier than playing an instrument. This is probably why Dance bards get adv. to performance checks when dancing to keep them on par with other bards who play.

One thing that works in 5e's favour is that unlike 3e it does not try to create rules that apply to everyone. The rules are specifically for the PCs. The DM is free to give whatever powers they like to NPCs for example. I see the GP cost as a simplification of the process of finding the...

I'm happy for item creation if the ingredients are rare enough that they can't easily be bought because there just isn't enough of them. It's kind of like finding a magic item in pieces at that point only with a cooler narrative.

I'm glad the rules will be in there for the people who want them. I was very relieved that they weren't in 2014, esp. for purchasing, to get away from the 3e mindset of magic items just being mundane, albeit expensive, items.

Books are sitting in a bit of an odd design space. They give +5 to relevant study checks which sounds a lot like what advantage provides on passive checks. I assume at some point they decided to remove all passive checks except perception from the PHB and then still had the books. And then...

It's fine for any 1 character to have super high AC. When the rest of the party dies they will soon follow. If the entire party concentrates on having high AC then they will lack some abilities to handle situations that other parties could. The nice thing about balance in D&D is that...

I also think at this point a lot of people now associate charisma with the fiction of warlocks because they have been playing them like that for 10 years. I actually had a session 0 yesterday and one of the players made a warlock. He didn't ask but I let him know if he wanted to play int he...