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Hmm, Not my favorite style of art, but I kind of like the scene and the colors are spot-on.

Is every pose now just going to get called "marvel"? You have a guy ready to swing a sword, a woman with two crossed blades, a dwarf with an axe and shield, a woman with a mace and shield.... and it is MARVEL posing? Also, I guess adventurers never get ready for battle. No combat for...

I'd be good with either something remaking the old characters or making new ones. Frankly, the stories HAVE to change, you can't just slap a fresh animation on the old story-boards and have it go. That would be horrid. But I don't think there is any inherent problem with having the same cast...

And yet... I can't say that I agree. I have never read a single original Sherlock Holmes story. Yet, I have dabbled in making Sherlock Holmes inspired stories, based off of the adaptation. Sherlock Holmes gets adapted or re-imagined because he is the Ur-archetype of the detective. Everyone...

Eh, somethings stand the test of time, other things don't, and some are purposefully preserved against time. Sure, I can go to any book store in the USA and find Tolkien or Shakespeare. I can also find Twilight, One Piece and the most recent Brandon Sanderson novel. Kids in school are being...

That makes them sound way more interesting than most of what I normally hear about them.

Thinking about the Iconics a bit more, I think DnD is actually in a position to do something kind of fun and interesting. A few years ago I got the Sentinel Comics RPG book, and in the book there are quite a few depictions of "classic" heroes and villains from the original card game... and a...

They had stated back during the UA playtest that they included Goliaths to be a second "big guy" race to pair up with Orcs. That way there would be more than one choice available to players for that archetype.

I'm still catching up to the thread, but I was getting really discouraged with the sheer vitriolic negativity. You buoyed my mood immediately with this news. Thank you and WHOO!

We don't use grappling much at my tables. It seems other than people planning to use "cheese grater" tactics, it (and therefore athletics) just don't come up. I do agree with the investigation vs perception issue, and it is something I address at my own tables. Again though, that ends up being...

Wow. Wanna poison the well a bit harder? I can still feel my eyeballs after reading this. I'm sure you can fix that with some cyanide. Out of nowhere, you suddenly started saying that wizards should gain random spells. This would not apply to bards, clerics, paladins, druids, sorcerers...

Ooh, that's a cool idea

Yeah, I like giving out spells to wizards as treasure. And there are a handful of very powerful spells that I limit access to (Wish, clone, simulacrum, that sort of stuff)

Has the wizard not put in effort to survive and level up? It sounds like forcing them to jump through a hoop, "We know you survived, gathered XP, and leveled up and if you were like everyone else you would just get your abilities. Instead, so you can feel like you really accomplished something...

Nope, hard disagree. Taking agency out of the player's hands is a bad design choice. If you are playing a game where the main focus is dealing with an undead army, and your wizard keeps randomly getting enchantment spells that are useless against undead, that is a feel bad situation all...

Group checks are the tricky bit, because it depends entirely on the DM. Some DMs just look for an average value, others will penalize the entire group for one low roll. I have just noticed a consistent frustration that even when working to avoid them, those two skills are just too consistently...

Thinking of the new Monk design, they can already dash and disengage with a bonus action. The Monk's bonus action attack should absolutely not be allowed to be swapped, because then their level 1 feature invalidates their level 2 feature. That should be a decent enough solution to keep...

Ah, trading breadth for depth. Hmm. I'd have to consider that really hard. Most characters get only 4 skills, and it would make something like expertise in Perception common for elves. I'm not sure I would want to have people getting only two skills, but each was expertise. Partially because...

I suppose giving Expertise or lowering the DC end up having about the same result mathematically. The problem, as in a design puzzle sort of problem, is that if you offer expertise, it needs to be completely free-range. A fighter or other martial needs to be able to choose any skill to apply...

Gut says that those DCs should all be dropped by 5. A DC 30 is technically possible, but for a fighter as they exist right now, it isn't really reasonable with a max bonus of +11. And since it only raises the limit to 2,400 lbs, I don't think it should be nearly impossible for a 20th level...