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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ComradeGnull" data-source="post: 5967696" data-attributes="member: 6685694">Bizarre, Impractical Racial Weapons: Gnome pick, I'm looking at you.  Worse though, the core races apparently used up all the semi-reasonable weapons, and the new guys on the block are left with a whip with a cheese grater/yo-yo glued to it to define their rich culture.Obvious Feats: Pick two skills at random and give them a +2.  Now come up with a clever name.  There are at least thee of these in every splatbook.  (My suggestion: Chastity Belt Remover: You gain +2 to Diplomacy and +2 to Open Locks/Disable Device)Drow:  Ye gods.Angst-ridden Heroes:  Classes/races/themes built around perpetual emo-ness for some ancient sleight.  If I see one more orphan PC who seeks vengeance against the orcs/cult/lawn tractor that killed his entire family except him, I will be forced to become very cross.  Actually, in a PbP I was in, a fellow player attempted to rile my half-orc by waxing angry/Morissey over the fact that orcs killed his parents.  I said that my half-orc's grandfather died falling down a flight of stairs and shouted curses at every one I saw.Apocalypse number 5:  A new rules rev, a new 'crisis' to run rampant across the established campaign settings.  Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms got this one the worst.  My favorite was when the avatar of Bane genocided all assassins in the world because he was angry over the transition to 2nd ed.  Someone already mentioned the repeated shoehorning of new classes/races into established settings, which is a symptom of this phenomenon.  "Oh yeah, Tiefling were always here they just... didn't go out much.  And did I forget to mention our thousand year old psionics academy?"  Speaking of which...D&D Psionics: Always clunky.  Always bolted on as an afterthought.  Other than Dark Sun, it has just never fit with any of the official settings properly in my mind.  Thrill to dozens of your favorite Monster Manual races, inexplicably restated with psionic powers!   Among wish lists for 5e one entry I've never seen is "make psionics a core feature".</blockquote>

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