Finally, the Obscure Elements Poll

[fuindordm]

This poll collects ideas from the thread "Obscure elements of D&D you would love to rescue". I thought it would be interesting to poll the general support for these ideas, since it's easier to vote on a poll than write a new post.

I may have missed a few of people's ideas. If so, I apologize for leaving them out.

I deliberately left out "Bring back Setting X" comments, because lots of rule additions are usually required to support a setting. I wanted the poll to consist of relatively small rules.

Happy voting, and feel free to post more ideas here or in the thread linked above.

 

[Yora]

Tieflings are not obscure!

Why do people put them as such in all the polls recently?

 

[RangerWickett]

I think I voted for about 70% of the options. Not necessarily in the first set of books, but definitely some time on the calendar.

 

[fuindordm]

A fair point. I tried to be all-inclusive of people's suggestions from the other thread, without judging which options are truly obscure and which are not.

 

[Minigiant]

Prostitute tables and SAN damage.

 

[messy]

there should be an option for "none of the above."

 

[Glade Riven]

While I didn't vote for everything, I do think it would be legitemate to have all of the above in a splat sooner or later in some form. One concern I have, though, is it could easily turn 5e into mostly a 'port of what came before.

That would get really old, really fast.

 

[fuindordm]

[MENTION=13488]messy[/MENTION]

You're right, that would have made an interesting contrast.

 

[Ahnehnois]

Tieflings are not obscure!

Ask someone who doesn't play D&D what a dwarf is. They'll tell you it's a small person. Maybe they'll go talk about fantasy dwarves that have mines in the mountains and always use axes and have scottish accents.

Ask someone who doesn't play D&D what a Tiefling is, and they'll think you just sneezed.

Yeah, they're obscure.

(Not necessarily a bad thing)

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I probably voted for about half of them.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Prostitute tables and SAN damage.

I hazard a guess that these two things would make "disease" an included element also.