Trimming a bad mechanic from 5e to improve the flow of combat and eliminate adversarial DMing posture.
Cutting Words
Category: Changing the Rules
Heward’s Handy Haversack
Unpacking D&D's magical backpack.
Size & Strength DCs
Can giants use their own doors?
Critical Fumble Fix
A solution for the interaction between critical fumbles and extra attacks.
Aarakocra Banned?
What do new Adventurer's League changes mean for flying character races?
Passive-Only Skills
Are there skills which should only function as passive skills? How passive-only skills can align player:character knowledge and assist DMs to plan ahead.
5e Surprise Round
Writing the surprised round (and condition) back into D&D 5e to avoid confusion for players with legacy knowledge.
Prosthetic Attunement
Wizards of the Coast is bringing accessibility improvements to D&D by removing attunement from prosthetic items.
Spell Fix: Avoid the Zone of Truth Torture Chamber
Fixing up an social spell so it does what it says without pushing the player characters to torturing the subject.
Blade Cantrip Changes
Examining the updates to Green-Flame Blade and Booming Blade and their new interactions with metamagic, feats, spells, and class features.
