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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7546323" data-attributes="member: 6677017">So, I was brainstorming something a while ago, and I must have posted at the wrong time, because there was hardly any response. I'll bring it up here in case it's the right time.From what I can tell, there are certain specific house rules that seem popular (such as replacing GWM's -5/+10 with a +1 Strength increase) or specific things that many people feel need house rules, even if they have different ideas of how to fix them.I speculate that were all who are interested in seeing some simple house rules to address some of the most common educated complaints to start a project to work together, we could create an Unofficial D&D 5e Patch. This would be a relatively short document, but could provide a baseline that the majority can agree on as a foundation.It would allow DMs and groups who have a couple issues with the game but aren't interested in extensive house rules (whether their own or others) to take it and go.It would allow groups to tell new members, "We use the U5e Patch" and be good to go.It would allow content designers who might like some of these sorts of rules to assume their usage and tell you that in their product with a link to the patch and instructions on how to modify the product if you don't use the patch.It would help the WotC  designers by giving them another point of data if it became popular. They could ask on surveys if people use that patch, for instance, to find out how well received that sort of thing might be.Could we actually get enough agreement to put together something that a large majority of contributors would be willing to give their approval to? My gut says yes. The same gut that knew 5e was going to be hugely successful back during the playtest when many people thought it was going to be a complete failure. The same gut that told me the edition was going to be long-running when many people had the idea it would last a few years and then 6e would be out. That "gut foresight" is yelling me this is completely doable.</blockquote>

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