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To Mike "Talien" Tresca, Thank you! I greatly appreciate the work you've put into this.

Character class has a role to play in the Investigation vs. Perception choice, and a PC's relative levels of Int vs. Wis. Not everyone is going to have high stats in both of those. Many PCs are going to have one of them that's better than the other. Even untrained, such characters will simply...

Whenever designing variable traits, the best designs I've seen have included in the trait description the specific trait that the variable trait would be replacing. That's a necessary element to keep the character balanced.

Check out the Southlands Heroes for 5E from Kobold Press for a take on a different application of the desire for a leonid race. Originated for the Midguard take on the 13th Age platform, the sourcebook includes a Werelion race. The werelion, like your idea above, seems a bit overpowered to me...

My impression is that the RAI are meant to reduce the ticks o' the clock in combat encounters; every additional action that a player takes on a turn likely increases the length of time it takes to play the encounter. Time's not a problem if you give your familiar a Wand of Death Stars, although...

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For this link, especially, thank you!

Regarding the variant rule for Warforged and Rust Monsters: 1) A rust monster's attack only affects nonmagical ferrous metal armor plating, as per the MM (I assume that is already the intent). 2) You might want to consider giving weapon attacks advantage against the warforged character...

Changes in canon involving how a race is perceived, it seems to me, is akin to changes in propaganda when nations go to war with each other. When America entered WW I, for example, Germans all-of-a-sudden went from just being another group of people to being monstrous. I suspect that this...

My own preference is to consider them as sub-races of the same Fey race.

Around the time that the 5e Player Handbook was first coming out, Remathlis had posted his own ideas for a number of player races. You might want to take a look at his thread (it still exists): http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?361168-D-amp-D-Conversion-Races#ixzz3CwFd8iCM There's...

If I recollect correctly, the Tallfolk halflings were inspired by Merry and Pippin in the Lord of the Rings; their exceptional growth was a side effect of the time they spent with the Ent, Treebeard. Other than that, there wasn't any difference with other hobbits. I don't have my old 2e books...

To all the DMs out there running games and making up their own stuff, I just want to say "Thank you!" for using your superpowers for Good. — (((Chris Perkins))) (@ChrisPerkinsDnD) October 15, 2016 Tweeted in Sage Advice.

The shading is excellent - dark enough to clarify, not dark enough to obscure.

You're right. I'm overthinking the action mechanic. What was in my mind was the idea of retrieving an item during combat. Some things will be at the top of a backpack, others will be lower in it, taking moments longer to get at. I have a tendency to pull complicating factors into play, even...

Perhaps applying advantage/disadvantage to a retrieve item check, depending on where it's been stored?

In the 5e Players Handbook, Chapter 6, page 168.

I always like the detail of placing items in specific containers/locations. A point of interest: you chose Strength in re Encumbrance as a threshold for extra items. I tend to chose Dexterity in re "retrieving items" as the critical consideration. That puts us in that apples and onions...

I like the feat idea. Simply make it Pious Initiate, using Magic Initiate as a general template, limiting the choices to cleric Domains and spells, rather than any other spell-casting class. The PC taking this feat gets two cantrips, one of which must be the bonus cantrip granted by the Domain...

I built a half-orc bard who favors his human ancestry in appearance, used the race's +2 Str simply to raise the PC's Str to average, maxed Cha to the extent the rules allow, with Int & Dex sharing 2nd place. This is on the Standard Array point-buy. I stole/adapted the rogue's Mastermind...