Anything BUT whatever dumb ass 💩 WotC has recently done or is currently doing, literally ANYTHING

Ok, since we are moving on to being-made spaces...

The Market - Huge bustling area tightly packed with the strangest people you've ever seen, selling the strangest wares. Usually expect to see food that still closely resembles the bizarre local wildlife from which it's made, creatures of dubious sapience being sold for ambiguous purposes, and at least one really big guy who wants to beat up one of your group for something that happened long ago.

Thieves Den or Guild -- 

The Catacombs -- 

Apparently, all those days spent at Flying Buffalo when they had a physical shop gave me greater awareness than I thought.

So, D&D is not a perfect system. no system is. but I like to put a ton of effort into my home games, and with that comes a good bit of homebrew (I won't say a lot cause what I have is nothing compared to Dorsay's work. probably cause they have been working on it for 43 years and I have been doing it for 6). and so, I have come to the desicion that I want to rewrite the classes, races (tailored to my world), & feats of the game. so, I have a list of classes below: 

QOTD: What ideas do you have for features of these classes?

 and yes, this is a utterly blatant and unsubtle attempt at getting help with this project

So, suggestion one: Pull the parts and the pieces and the subclasses you think will work work first.

Break the mass of them into the four traditional class groups (Magic User, Fighter, Cleric, Rogue). This is important -- classes which are akin to each other will have some features akin to each other (most notably, Hit dice). Then work on them in those groups. You can absolutely use a different "grouping" as well, the point is to help create chunks that you can use to make the task not only seem manageable, but that allows you to look at them and ensure they remain distinct enough.

For example, I have a nice, neat, happy little grid for all my classes that puts them into a group of three or of six. And then I have Bards. Because I forgot to fit them into the neat little grid, and that allowed me to make bards something completely different (Bards have literal, actual muses, and that is where their magic comes from).

'tis a lot of work. and the most boring part of the whole thing for me lol

Fun fact: blackguard is pronounced "blaggard". I've known that word since I was a kid, but had literally never heard it pronounced until about a week ago.

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 (I won't say a lot cause what I have is nothing compared to Dorsay's work. probably cause they have been working on it for 43 years and I have been doing it for 6).

 I know Antonia doesn't want to be annoying about this, but I have no such concerns. She! >;)

An inventor type needs the ability to develop an ongoing and escalating arms race with an NPC. They need an experimental-prototype sort of feature that lets them do unreasonably flexible things but at a risk of catastrophic failure -- and that needs to not ruin them for the whole day because then they'll never use it.

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Getting there. 4 left.

Settling on a ring of six cities around the big one, making it a holy land. This will give a mix of "civilized" lands and then a broad ring of "uncivilized lands". Will still have all the "normal" biomes.

Sacred Numbers are 6, 7, and 8.

1. The Sea of Sand - a vast desert area of dunes and mysteries!
2. The Dark Forest - A forest that is scary and rumored to be dangerous.
3. The Frozen Wastes - A really cold place where it's always snowing. Suited for crags.
4. The Shadow Marsh - A swamp where everything wants to kill you.
5. The Volar Islands - An island that floats. On the sky, specifically.
6. A Volcanic Mountain - Wreathed in fiery smoke, hiding a deep secret
7. A Grand Old City -- Filled with monumental architecture, and ancient and holy place that the six Kingdoms war over.
8. A Mighty Maze -- A many branched mystery of magnificence.
9. A Legendary Labyrinth -- The terrifying complex of paths and patterns.
10. Meandering Caverns — a tunnel complex.
11. The White Necropolis - A city or tomb filled with undead or other spooky monsters like giant bugs
12. The Mystical Mountains -- treacherous and high
13. The Spine of the World -- a long chain of mountains
14. The Highland Bog -- a highland marsh known to be the abode of spirits.
15. The Highlands -- A great plateau, cold and rugged steppe lands
16. The Celestial Mare -- a massive ancient ship, ghostly and terrifying.
17. The Well of Souls - A large and powerful arcane thingy that makes magic in the surrounding area more powerful, and perhaps more chaotic.
18. The Badlands - An area so ravaged by war (mortal or otherwise) that no hint of the previous terrain can be made out.
19. The Thinny Wilds - An area surrounding an uncontrolled gate to another plane, warped to match the portal's destination.
20. Brilliant Woods -- A magical forest filled with fantastical beasts and abundant in magic
21. Brilliant Brambles -- a massive hedge of thorny fruiting and flowering plants that surrounds the Brilliant Woods.
22. The Isles of Myst -- Misty islands holding many secrets. Among them...
23. Cymraeg -- an island that's actually a turtle.
24. The Sea of Tears -- A shipwreck graveyard, either the lair of a monster , between the Sea of Storms and the Sea of Despair
25. The Empty Quarter -- A dry, barren desert where even sand is said to flee
26. Thalassica -- the underwater ruins of an ancient city.
27. The Maelstrom - A giant, constantly swirling whirlpool usually between two landmasses.
28. The Salt Mines -- deep underground mines for a precious commodity
29. Ancient Mines -- From They Who Came before, occasionally re-discovered.
30. The Great Jungle -- A mighty, near impenetrable jungle said to harbor fearsome and fearful foes
31. The Whispering Rainforest -- To the south a jungle of near constant rain
32. The Forgotten Island: An island where time seems to have stopped, as the island is dominated by dinosaurs of all kinds
33. The Emerald Forest: Dense jungles full of ancient cities buried deep beneath the jungle's roots, where ancient temples with hints of human sacrifice peek above it's dense, green tops; populated by the most venomous of spiders and snakes
34. Caverns of Despair: What exactly happened to the people that once called the depths of these caves "home" has been "forgotten" - and most say, the people purposely forgot it and refuse to speak of it. Whatever happened, the dread and despair that emanates even at the entrance of the cave feels like an overwhelm mist that clings to the flesh, seeps into the pores and devours your hope. The drops of water echoing in the caves, each sound like children, who cry out for their parents, long gone...
35. The Blood Swamps: A swamp that was the scene of a great, and horrific battle, that lasted for so long, that the very soil itself became red and swamp like. The battle was so ruthless that there was no time to recover the dead, and those bodies sank into the red soil... and now, this dreaded land, where this battle once took place, has turned into a swamp of crimson fluid, whose dead reach out to pull those foolish enough to try and cross it...
36. The Hollow Moon --Dyson Ring 
37. The Endless Sea -- The great Ocean around the whole of the the lands
38. The Surient Saltu -- Carnivorous Jungle --
39. Carcassia --The Interior of a Kaiju
40. The Daughter's Egg -- The Mother Ship, an egg shaped form in the heavens, always near the The hollow Moon. It is said the Thinny Wilds lead to it.
41. Stones of Power - Five, tall, grey stones rise out from the world's surface. The mystery of the stones has long been debated.  Efforts to unearth the five stones have been wrought with ill fortune for those who try to do so, from mysterious, uncurable illnesses, to fatal accidents that are freaky in nature. During certain celestial moments - the five stones glow with incredible power.
42. The Great Scar -  A cut, over 277 miles long, upon the world. Cliffs of red stone tower over a river that runs along the Great Scar, during the torrential rains that sometimes wash over the land, cause the red stone to wash into the river, turning the waters red like blood.
43. The In-Between - An environment that doesn't follow the rules, where nothing belongs, strangely barren, empty as if nothing has ever existed here. 
44. Ground Zero - Akin to a giant crater, where the rules of the world break down; emits a strange energy that causes things that enter it to glow with a strange greenish light, can cause physical mutation, sometimes madness or crushing melancholy.  Perhaps people will awaken latent psychic powers, which may or may not still manifest after leaving the site.
45. Godrood -- Towering well over 500 feet tall and 50 feet width, the largest tree known rises above its children, varying in height from a young and stout 50 feet to 300 feet tall. It is so vast, and its branches so great grew unique branches that other trees and seeds have settled and grown upon it, and by itself became a great forest within a great forest. The canopy of the massive tree is so large that it provides and has created it's own ecosystem beneath it.
46. Mare Ignis, The Sea of Fire -- a massive, molten lake of fire and lava, roughly 350 miles in length and 160 miles wide. The air around it is poisonous, but plants thrive.
47. The Voes River -- a river said to be magical and spectacular, where spirits dwell.
48. The Whirlwind: A massive, perpetual tornado that flings around several small islands that people somehow still live on, maybe it has to do with the fact that time (& therefore the flinging) is slowed down

 Underwater civilization, or town. 

 26.

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 (I won't say a lot cause what I have is nothing compared to Dorsay's work. probably cause they have been working on it for 43 years and I have been doing it for 6).

 I know Antonia doesn't want to be annoying about this, but I have no such concerns. She! >;)

An inventor type needs the ability to develop an ongoing and escalating arms race with an NPC. They need an experimental-prototype sort of feature that lets them do unreasonably flexible things but at a risk of catastrophic failure -- and that needs to not ruin them for the whole day because then they'll never use it.

 
Thank you.

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 (I won't say a lot cause what I have is nothing compared to Dorsay's work. probably cause they have been working on it for 43 years and I have been doing it for 6).

 I know Antonia doesn't want to be annoying about this, but I have no such concerns. She! >;)

An inventor type needs the ability to develop an ongoing and escalating arms race with an NPC. They need an experimental-prototype sort of feature that lets them do unreasonably flexible things but at a risk of catastrophic failure -- and that needs to not ruin them for the whole day because then they'll never use it.

 
Thank you.

 Oh sorry. I’m really stupid. 

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 Oh sorry. I’m really stupid. 

 Hey, nobody calls my friends stupid. You take it back! 😉

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 Oh sorry. I’m really stupid. 

 Hey, nobody calls my friends stupid. You take it back! 😉

 I have friends? JK, also, I don't think I've ever mentioned my pronouns before, but what do y'all think they are. yes, I realize i said yall, Im from the south.

I'mma guess He/him

You know what i love? I love knowing my heritage. Not like ancestry.com percentages, I mean knowing about the relatives who came before me. I don't know if I have Lithuanian blood because I took a test, I know I have Lithuanian blood because my great-grandpa immigrated from there back in 1897. It feels real and amazing to know the story behind my ancestry.

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Getting there. 4 left.

Settling on a ring of six cities around the big one, making it a holy land. This will give a mix of "civilized" lands and then a broad ring of "uncivilized lands". Will still have all the "normal" biomes.

Sacred Numbers are 6, 7, and 8.

1. The Sea of Sand - a vast desert area of dunes and mysteries!
2. The Dark Forest - A forest that is scary and rumored to be dangerous.
3. The Frozen Wastes - A really cold place where it's always snowing. Suited for crags.
4. The Shadow Marsh - A swamp where everything wants to kill you.
5. The Volar Islands - An island that floats. On the sky, specifically.
6. A Volcanic Mountain - Wreathed in fiery smoke, hiding a deep secret
7. A Grand Old City -- Filled with monumental architecture, and ancient and holy place that the six Kingdoms war over.
8. A Mighty Maze -- A many branched mystery of magnificence.
9. A Legendary Labyrinth -- The terrifying complex of paths and patterns.
10. Meandering Caverns — a tunnel complex.
11. The White Necropolis - A city or tomb filled with undead or other spooky monsters like giant bugs
12. The Mystical Mountains -- treacherous and high
13. The Spine of the World -- a long chain of mountains
14. The Highland Bog -- a highland marsh known to be the abode of spirits.
15. The Highlands -- A great plateau, cold and rugged steppe lands
16. The Celestial Mare -- a massive ancient ship, ghostly and terrifying.
17. The Well of Souls - A large and powerful arcane thingy that makes magic in the surrounding area more powerful, and perhaps more chaotic.
18. The Badlands - An area so ravaged by war (mortal or otherwise) that no hint of the previous terrain can be made out.
19. The Thinny Wilds - An area surrounding an uncontrolled gate to another plane, warped to match the portal's destination.
20. Brilliant Woods -- A magical forest filled with fantastical beasts and abundant in magic
21. Brilliant Brambles -- a massive hedge of thorny fruiting and flowering plants that surrounds the Brilliant Woods.
22. The Isles of Myst -- Misty islands holding many secrets. Among them...
23. Cymraeg -- an island that's actually a turtle.
24. The Sea of Tears -- A shipwreck graveyard, either the lair of a monster , between the Sea of Storms and the Sea of Despair
25. The Empty Quarter -- A dry, barren desert where even sand is said to flee
26. Thalassica -- the underwater ruins of an ancient city.
27. The Maelstrom - A giant, constantly swirling whirlpool usually between two landmasses.
28. The Salt Mines -- deep underground mines for a precious commodity
29. Ancient Mines -- From They Who Came before, occasionally re-discovered.
30. The Great Jungle -- A mighty, near impenetrable jungle said to harbor fearsome and fearful foes
31. The Whispering Rainforest -- To the south a jungle of near constant rain
32. The Forgotten Island: An island where time seems to have stopped, as the island is dominated by dinosaurs of all kinds
33. The Emerald Forest: Dense jungles full of ancient cities buried deep beneath the jungle's roots, where ancient temples with hints of human sacrifice peek above it's dense, green tops; populated by the most venomous of spiders and snakes
34. Caverns of Despair: What exactly happened to the people that once called the depths of these caves "home" has been "forgotten" - and most say, the people purposely forgot it and refuse to speak of it. Whatever happened, the dread and despair that emanates even at the entrance of the cave feels like an overwhelm mist that clings to the flesh, seeps into the pores and devours your hope. The drops of water echoing in the caves, each sound like children, who cry out for their parents, long gone...
35. The Blood Swamps: A swamp that was the scene of a great, and horrific battle, that lasted for so long, that the very soil itself became red and swamp like. The battle was so ruthless that there was no time to recover the dead, and those bodies sank into the red soil... and now, this dreaded land, where this battle once took place, has turned into a swamp of crimson fluid, whose dead reach out to pull those foolish enough to try and cross it...
36. The Hollow Moon --Dyson Ring 
37. The Endless Sea -- The great Ocean around the whole of the the lands
38. The Surient Saltu -- Carnivorous Jungle --
39. Carcassia --The Interior of a Kaiju
40. The Daughter's Egg -- The Mother Ship, an egg shaped form in the heavens, always near the The hollow Moon. It is said the Thinny Wilds lead to it.
41. Stones of Power - Five, tall, grey stones rise out from the world's surface. The mystery of the stones has long been debated.  Efforts to unearth the five stones have been wrought with ill fortune for those who try to do so, from mysterious, uncurable illnesses, to fatal accidents that are freaky in nature. During certain celestial moments - the five stones glow with incredible power.
42. The Great Scar -  A cut, over 277 miles long, upon the world. Cliffs of red stone tower over a river that runs along the Great Scar, during the torrential rains that sometimes wash over the land, cause the red stone to wash into the river, turning the waters red like blood.
43. The In-Between - An environment that doesn't follow the rules, where nothing belongs, strangely barren, empty as if nothing has ever existed here. 
44. Ground Zero - Akin to a giant crater, where the rules of the world break down; emits a strange energy that causes things that enter it to glow with a strange greenish light, can cause physical mutation, sometimes madness or crushing melancholy.  Perhaps people will awaken latent psychic powers, which may or may not still manifest after leaving the site.
45. Godrood -- Towering well over 500 feet tall and 50 feet width, the largest tree known rises above its children, varying in height from a young and stout 50 feet to 300 feet tall. It is so vast, and its branches so great grew unique branches that other trees and seeds have settled and grown upon it, and by itself became a great forest within a great forest. The canopy of the massive tree is so large that it provides and has created it's own ecosystem beneath it.
46. Mare Ignis, The Sea of Fire -- a massive, molten lake of fire and lava, roughly 350 miles in length and 160 miles wide. The air around it is poisonous, but plants thrive.
47. The Voes River -- a river said to be magical and spectacular, where spirits dwell.
48. The Whirlwind: A massive, perpetual tornado that flings around several small islands that people somehow still live on, maybe it has to do with the fact that time (& therefore the flinging) is slowed down

 
I must have missed the rules of this game, but I think I contribute interesting locales? How about:

The Library of Ignorance. An antediluvian archive filled with stacks of books of gibberish in languages long-forgotten. Beware the librarian, an ancient entity that replaces reasoned thought with silent madness.

The Forge of Titans. During the Dawn War, the primordial titans used this nexus of elemental fire and water to forge their weapons. In the aftermath, it was adapted to forge the chains that bind them to this day.

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You know what i love? I love knowing my heritage. Not like ancestry.com percentages, I mean knowing about the relatives who came before me. I don't know if I have Lithuanian blood because I took a test, I know I have Lithuanian blood because my great-grandpa immigrated from there back in 1897. It feels real and amazing to know the story behind my ancestry.

 
I am Lakota, Malian, and Dutch-English (more specifically, Frisian). In that order. Which makes me Native American, Sub-Saharan African, and Mighty Freakin White. When I was born, it was illegal in many places for my parents to be married, and thus I was born illegally. I am a member of three tribes (one by adoption), and I know only parts of my very complex family history, because by the time I cold research them, many of those who could hold it were dead.

I heard the N word often in my grandparents and great grandparent's houses around the holidays -- usually shouted at the TV while football was on (this was later 60's and early 70's). The first time it was yelled at me was in school, and I looked around for the football player before realizing it was shouted at me. Went to ask my mom, who explained what it meant.

I am a member of the Wykoff family. There is a house in NYC that is on the historic register, built in the 1600's by a couple. Their descendants over the last 400 years have occupied all manner of places and positions and the Wykoff House Association has linked all of us together. I am a native Arizonan, and I have roots recorded there going back to the mid-1800's.

My stepfather was a realtor who did the deals that developed out well over a third of Sedona, Arizona, and I have walked that area known it my whole life, and watched it grow froma place of beauty to a place of commerce and congestion.

Our heritage is one of the single most important parts of our lives. Blood quanta -- the one drop rule, the percentage of ancestry, the gene count -- is all a reflection oof the enduring and underlying racism that we live with every day -- what makes us what we are is the sum of our experiences, and much of those in our youngest life comes from those who raised us, and they determine more of what we are than anything else, though they never fully describe or proscribe what we can become.

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 Oh sorry. I’m really stupid. 

 Hey, nobody calls my friends stupid. You take it back! 😉

 I have friends? JK, also, I don't think I've ever mentioned my pronouns before, but what do y'all think they are. yes, I realize i said yall, Im from the south.

Well, now, Imma be thinkin' on it and all, an' Imma be sayin yer one o'them fancy noners, what them yankees be callin non-binary types, so ya be usin' them, thar, they, and th'all.

An 'tis not an incapacity t' perform what made the word choice, so t'wasn't no stupidity...

N'need t'pologize -- as was noted, I am unlikely to make too big a deal out of it.

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 Oh sorry. I’m really stupid. 

 Hey, nobody calls my friends stupid. You take it back! 😉

 I have friends? JK, also, I don't think I've ever mentioned my pronouns before, but what do y'all think they are. yes, I realize i said yall, Im from the south.

 

Well, now, Imma be thinkin' on it and all, an' Imma be sayin yer one o'them fancy noners, what them yankees be callin non-binary types, so ya be usin' them, thar, they, and th'all.

An 'tis not an incapacity t' perform what made the word choice, so t'wasn't no stupidity...

N'need t'pologize -- as was noted, I am unlikely to make too big a deal out of it.

 If any o' y'all need a translation o' this southerner speak, i'm ya gal

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You know what i love? I love knowing my heritage. Not like ancestry.com percentages, I mean knowing about the relatives who came before me. I don't know if I have Lithuanian blood because I took a test, I know I have Lithuanian blood because my great-grandpa immigrated from there back in 1897. It feels real and amazing to know the story behind my ancestry.

 Yeah, knowing where your family is from is really cool.

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You know what i love? I love knowing my heritage. Not like ancestry.com percentages, I mean knowing about the relatives who came before me. I don't know if I have Lithuanian blood because I took a test, I know I have Lithuanian blood because my great-grandpa immigrated from there back in 1897. It feels real and amazing to know the story behind my ancestry.

 Yeah, knowing where your family is from is really cool.

 I'm German as hell, German, English, and Dutch for the most part, I'm the whitest you could be.

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You know what i love? I love knowing my heritage. Not like ancestry.com percentages, I mean knowing about the relatives who came before me. I don't know if I have Lithuanian blood because I took a test, I know I have Lithuanian blood because my great-grandpa immigrated from there back in 1897. It feels real and amazing to know the story behind my ancestry.

 Yeah, knowing where your family is from is really cool.

 I'm German as hell, German, English, and Dutch for the most part, I'm the whitest you could be.

 Both sides of my family are from Ireland originally.