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I think this actually serves my point- if we know humans are capable of making bad choices when presented with options, then in a team game where everyone works together to complete the same goals there's very little reason to not make all the choices the best ones they can be. EDIT: I...

Ok granted, since nobody knows when our ancestors discovered how to make fires, but I think it's fair to say that it probably predates large settlements by quite a bit. And it's also fair to say that D&D worlds have a lot scarier nocturnal predators, and a lot more sophonts running around than...

I mean, it makes about as much sense as Ravenloft being basically made out of horror tropes and old monster movies.

Yes, that was the video I was thinking of.

I content creator I used to follow (before he pretty much stopped doing much of anything) once put it something like this: If you steal from the party, you can make them go to the ends of the Earth to get their stuff back. But you can only do it once, or your players will revolt. As for...

The ability to find new spells as treasure is, unfortunately, undercut by the divine casters. Clerics and Druids have the ability to mold their spell lists at will, and depending on subclass, can even have spells normally only Wizards could cast. Add to this the fact that consuming a scroll to...

I don't think darkvision is always useful. That disadvantage on Perception checks for functioning in dim light has proven to be a serious thing in games I've run. There are several incidents where someone blunders into a trap or ambush they otherwise wouldn't have, if they were using a light...

Going off topic: I don't like cursed items. But I suppose I should elaborate on that. I don't like items that are basically traps that you can't easily identify. I do to this day use items that have unforeseen side effects and drawbacks, and sometimes yes, divesting yourself of the item does...

Ok, I stand corrected, apparently some people did, and apparently enjoyed it. I apparently fell in with a crowd that felt such things were tedious and wanted to get back to the adventuring post-haste. And that's good for me, because I played a lot of Ultima in and around the time I got into...

Yes, though Templeton usually hurt his hand punching people, and being punched typically meant he had to get new crowns put on his teeth. You can certainly point towards each member of the A-Team having their own specialties, and times when one was obviously better (B.A. was hands down the best...

Why on Earth would you want it any other way? Why tell a player, here are three cars. One is a gas guzzler that will be impractical for anything you would ever want it to do, one is fuel efficient but has no cargo space, and the third is super fast and reliable. Pick one! Please don't attack...

I mean, that works too. If your players think Strong Orcs is best Orcs, no need to change a thing!

If that's what happens, I'd be happy with that. And you know, maybe we'll see more Tiefling and Gnome Barbarians and the like from here on out. I can only comment on what I've seen in actual games. On the other hand, I know some races are played more for reasons that have nothing to do with...

So I feel that the quintessential D&D iconic monster has to be something unique to the game. Mimics are out because they're everywhere now. Beholders and Owlbears have been copied elsewhere, Mind Flayers are fully in the pop culture zeitgeist, and thanks to Baldur's Gate, everyone knows what...

I would have preferred proficiency bonuses be more important at low levels than ability scores, where now, they become more important only at the very highest levels of play. If the level 1 proficiency bonus was say, +3, and the game was stricter about starting ability scores, I think that...

I mean, if Druids have used scimitars since the 70's, then Druids using scimitars is a D&D-ism unto itself, and changing it now would strike some people as being "not D&D" or something like that. It's the whole reason the "no metal" still exists, after all. It's not really all that logical, or...

I'm not opposed, but they already have the best hit die. So I'd have rather seen rage as a more offensive ability, as it was in previous editions, because flying into a rage and becoming a killing machine feels more evocative to me than "you get a small damage buff and can technically double...

Magic User is more likely to give you a body that lets you continue playing your class, as I recall.

Sure for example, many years ago, I was making custom lineages for a Pathfinder 1e game. I quickly ran into the problem that a race with advantages in combat wouldn't be taken by someone who wants to play a spellcaster, and vice versa. If you have a strength bonus or the ability to wield...

Simply put, as a DM, you have to make the setting reflect that, and let the PC's do what PC's do. If they really want to be a smart Orc Wizard, fantastic. Orcs need Wizards the same way Klingons need scientists- but make sure they realize that they'll get the same amount of respect as a...