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I like your revision regarding the maelstrom feature. What you say about keeping the spells below 6th level makes sense; 1st - 5th level spells are the standard limitation. [I have a crush on those investiture spells and keep trying to sneak them in where they don't belong, so I need to be...

Although I've been concentrating on getting Primal Forms into a reasonable draft form, the ideas from @rgoodbb and @cbwjm quoted above have been moving around in the background of my mind. I do think that cbwjm's original ideas for the 6th, 10th, and 14th level features are good as they are, but...

This use of the Healer feat brings the mending cantrip to mind. In some groups it can be used to help a living construct to recover hit points. Perhaps it can also be utilized to repair damage to undead servants.

Still working on the primal form feature, I've eliminated the Max. CR and Example columns from the Primal Forms table, keeping the Limitations, and added your idea for the Ocean's Rage and Storm Raven primal forms at levels 4 and 8 (respectively). Per your concern about the extra attack action...

Taking a look at possession as described for the ghost (MM147), the ghost does not gain its target's knowledge, class features, or proficiencies. That confirms your idea that it would need to be much more powerful, and a deity fits that requirement. So, what if the paladin became a pawn between...

I was 29 (and D&D was 10) when I first sat down to play the game. Mind you, I kicked myself then for having not started playing it when it was new. I didn't pace myself well as a DM over the next 4 years (trying to create too much game world information) and burned out. Couldn't keep my mind...

That's Mumblety-Pegs. Great suggestion!

I'm working on getting this Circle feature more in line with the descriptions in Wild Shape, and find myself in need of other some feedback on what I'm working up. Primal Form At 2nd level you do not gain wild shape. In place of wild shape, you gain the ability to use your bonus action to...

Btw, thanks for the reminder of Return to Oz, with that performance by a young Fairuza Balk. If you haven't heard it, several years ago, with the band Armed Love Militia, she wrote and recorded a song called Stormwinds. It's well worth a listen.

What a delightful character concept! Warforged? The 13th Age version of the warforged is the gearforged. Unlike a warforged, the gearforged are entirely metallic. All their knowledge is encoded on metallic ribbons that spool within them. The ribbons can be switched out, thereby fully or...

Working character backstories is my favorite part of the process, so I will not be sending any of my PCs/NPCs your way. Still, I want to applaud you for this. So many players are not inclined to create those histories, for whatever reason, so I'm really happy that you're stepping up to the...

I made the same mistake in taking Resilient more than once in the first months after 5e debuted. The majority of feats are limited to being taken just once; only Elemental Adept can be taken more often. It wasn't just Resilient that I had to back-up on: I'd also taken Magic Initiate more than...

Investigation = Gather Information = Investigation. Different terms, same thing. Another way I think of it: Investigation works with Insight and Perception. I usually think of it as it applies to solving crimes: Wisdom (Insight) may be needed to develop an understanding of possible motives...

I like it. One of my favorite PCs in my 4e days was a dwarven Storm Warden. That guy might just see a conversion to 5e now. Grazie, cbwjm!

Kobold Press put out Midgard Heroes for 5th Edition (from 13th Age) that includes a PC race option for a type of ghoul called a Darakhul. From the supplement: "In the lightless depths beneath the ground, an empire of devouring ambition grows and plots and dreams. Its citizens call themselves...

MichaelSomething - Channeling West Side Story - Dude, this is brilliant!

One pan to rule them all, and in the darkness fry them.

The ultimate singing bard: Mighty Mouse (the cartoon, that is). And he did it singing opera.

A thing to remember about Unearthed Arcana play-testing options is that they are frequently unbalanced in being somewhat more powerful than official options. The game designers use the reviews and their own testing to adjust anything needed for balance. It tends to whittle down UA classes a bit...

DM's Guild has an offering called Tavern Games. It has some rules for gambling in general, plus billiards and darts. In other words, typical bar games. I suspect that you're just looking to briefly describe what game they're playing, and not looking for actual rules. Just think of the sort of...