D&D 5E (2024) What Should 1D&D Resurrect? +

[Pedantic]

Variable armor classes. I want touch AC and flat-footed AC back, though obviously a bit more care about how they get used would be nice.

 

[Clint_L]

Epic destinies. Hell, I'll expand that- high level material that isn't an afterthought in general.

Building on this, perhaps an entire sourcebook that is aimed at high-level play, including a few short adventures that could be plugged into different campaigns. I would be more interested in running high-level games if there was more direction given on how to do so.

So that's what I'd resurrect - a sourcebook that sort of went for what the old Master Rules and Immortal Rules covered.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Being 4e

Skill points

Campaign Setting books

 

[doctorbadwolf]

For my money…

Assassin as a Class

Swordmage and Warlord classes, though I’m not attached to either name nor specific mechanics from 4e.

Bard songs a la 3.5, but as bonus actions.

Level-gated feats to do the job of paragon paths and prestige classes.

Multiclass feats and hybrid multiclassing.

Playable Gnolls!

Class feats, maybe…

Like a lot of class stuff is abbreviated by 5e’s design. Totem Barbarian could lean harder into being transformed by invoking a spirit into themself, to become the wrath of nature embodied.

Rewrite thrown weapons to not suck.

Magic thrown items should just return to hand, as in 4e.

 

[Dausuul]

Resurrect the dedicated spontaneous casters from late 3E: The warmage, the dread necromancer, the beguiler. Give me a caster class that is built entirely around a particular magical theme, rather than being an "everything caster" with a few nods to a specialty.

Failing that, at least bring back the "forbidden schools" system from 2E and 3E. Limitations drive creativity.

 

[Tonguez]

weapon groups

 

[Jer]

The Bloodied condition.

I forgot 5e didn't have this because I still use it

 

[Scribe]

Tiny PCs.

Then again, I'm seeing a lot of things that are just present in other systems, being brought up here so...

 

[Corinnguard]

Dark Sun using the psionic rules in the upcoming Paranormal Power for 5e by Steampunkette?

 

[Parmandur]

Greyhawk, building off of the Ghosts of Saltmarsh tineline reboot.