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Last game I got to throw the gnome across a river, twice, so that he could tie down a rope to help others across. That was a fun use for a gnome.

I like using the ideas from WoW and 4e. Humans are diplomatic, have a will to survive, pick up a diverse range of skills and feats. If I wanted to put it into game terms, it might look something like: ASIs: three +1s to assign to any stat. I think this makes them a little more diverse than the...

Since this thread is now another psion class thread I'm gonna throw in some thoughts. I'd like to see one class for psionics and subclasses for things like the psychic warrior. I wouldn't want a psychic class to use the current spellcasting mechanics, it should be somewhat distinct. This is...

Dragons would be right up there, I also think the mimic represents DnD quite well, it seems to show up in various media based on the game in one form or another. Beholder is a good choice as well, I feel like illithids might also be a good choice but they have a different feel to them that I'm...

I like the 2e and 3e dragons the most.

The 2e Gothic earth setting might provide some good ideas.

I'd look back at d20 versions of the game. D20 modern would be a great start for ideas but if you can find them, the old polyhedron magazines had some cool settings, I recall it had a pulp era setting that fits that late 1800s/early 1900s feel.

The people on reddit are a minority, are you often playing in games where this sort of stuff comes up because I'm not, I've never seen one of these bloodthirsty paladins because the DnD version of a paladin doesn't have much in common with these medieval paladins that you're worried about...

I know this is a + thread, but I think this might be a "you" problem. You've read literature that simply isn't associated with how people play DnD paladins and now your conflating the two as one and the same.

For the former, I'm not too worried how they multiclass with the priest. For the latter, I disagree.

I love the concept which was why I also loved that they were thinking of aligning the levels that each class gained their subclasses as it would have made this sort of concept work so much more easily and we may have seen those universal Strixhaven subclasses in the final product. I was sad when...

I don't actually mind the bobble-headed halflings of 5e, though I do prefer the 3e halflings.

This is just my thought, they both represent the well armoured divine hero. If I really wanted to differentiate the two classes, I'd remove cleric and replace it with the priest, a lightly armoured (perhaps cloth wearer) spellcaster focused on divine magic. That's not something likely to ever...

You can have nostalgia for something that you didn't experience. Anemoia is nostalgia for a time you never experienced. I think it's cool that these old characters are being used again, I loved those colouring books of Strongheart and the others, back before I knew what DnD was, and I loved the...

People just don't understand Kara-Tur.

I think a good number lies roughly around where it is when 5e released. I could be a little less and increase as time goes on. For instance, WoW began with 9 classes and expanded that to 13 over time, I think that's a good number for differing playstyles.

For me, I think it was the cover of the rules cyclopedia. It made me want to see what was inside the book which ultimately got me into DnD.

Sometimes I feel like I must be one of the few people that doesn't play with problematic players. I usually use XP, both encounter and milestone, and normally apply it to the party rather than the individual so everyone stays the same level anyway. I've a friend that levelled us up when he...

I voted no because I'd prefer templates. Take an orc start block and it runs fine as is. At the brute template and it can soak damage, artillery template and its throwing axes at the PC's, etc. Basically, I like a baseline creature that can then be altered.

I wouldn't do the following differently, my suggestion is: Don't retcon your mistakes, just correct them and move on. When my friends and I first started playing, we made so many mistakes, rather than checking the rules I simply made a ruling and moved on, making a note to check it when we...