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This is a double-edged sword: if you make a race "the best" at X, depending on how you go about that, it can lead to 3e-style optimization. And frankly leaving that firmly in the past is for the best. Ideally, races would have benefits and drawbacks. Specialization leads to defects in other...

Giraffes are not rabbits.

Pointing this out is not a rebuttal, nor does it make the complaints raised invalid.

The most ethical use for a time machine would be to go back to whoever started this meme, and quietly remove them from the mortal coil before they can do so. As for how to consider Charisma: in my mind, Charisma is self-actualization and proactive spiritual defense, as opposed to Wisdom being...

I don't think I've encountered that personally, but that's anecdotal so not relevant. I will point to FF7's Cloud, though, as being indicative of some kind of "person wielding a weapon they really shouldn't be able to" archetype being a thing. At which point a feat that allows you to do that...

Cats are not dogs. Halfling strength is, like most things, probably a normal distribution. There are weak halflings and strong halflings, relative to their mean -- but that curve will amost assuredly be different from half-orc strength. A weak half-orc is probably around the same strength as a...

...ah, I missed the context. I am also fond of non-spellcasting rangers. Again though I don't think using 4e for comparison is terribly useful. Fighter and ranger occupied different and specific niches in 4e, in ways that can't really be replicated in 5e without a lot of changes. You probably...

That certainly is an assertion you can make, but it's not one I'm going to believe. 4e had a radically different class design philosophy from literally any other edition. Attempting to compare elements of any other edition to it is going to be largely unhelpful because of that.

It's hard to have a conversation on this topic without acknowledging the difference between the two. I was specifically thinking of recording movies shown on TV when I was a kid -- access wasn't an aspect I was considering, by virtue of that being the only example I was thinking of. So yes...

This stance requires that said copyright laws are ethical to begin with, which -- at least in the US -- is far from a given. Not to mention that the issue of copyright has never been about consumption, but distribution. You absolutely can record movies shown on TV for personal use, you just...

Get off my lawn.

That they spent money on improving the book isn't an argument against it being a cash grab. What's the one saying, you have to spend money to make money? Making it more appealing to buy makes it more likely they'd see a positive ROI. That's the cheese. But since you're apparently going to...

Which is the more effective mouse trap -- with cheese, or without? Refusing to engage with modern "pop culture" is a mark of a sensible mind, in today's world. If a prospective player brings up Critical Role (or whatever it's called), that's going to make me significantly less likely to...

Funny thing about telling me to just do it my way: I don't exactly need to buy a book to do that.

My stance is informed by the fact that I run homebrew races, classes, and spell lists. I don't like it. This feels to me like a cash-grab: everyone knows core books sell well, and most of the changes feel like they just make things worse. While the situation might feel akin to the 3.5 release...

Okay... so let me get this straight. The conjure line of spells from the '14 PHB were deemed to be too much. And fair enough, I can get behind that decision. I vaguely recall a UA where the summon line of spells were introduced -- using a unique stat block for the critters summoned, with a...

So... apparently making summoning creatures balanced proved to be too difficult (and I won't judge folks for making that call, it's not exactly an easy thing to figure out), so you altered a spell that used to put actual creatures on the field to instead make an... aura that deals damage...

I get why you're calling it that, but "DMG Day" might've been more appropriate -- we already have a DM/GM's day, it's March 4th.

Are the bastion rules any good?

I'd imagine dinosaur would have a similar flavor profile to gator, which is somewhat chicken-like.