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Whereas with third party material, it depends on whether or not another person knows about said material. Not everyone who knows about Level Up collects or has read its' 3pp material. So, I can now see where @W'rkncacnter is coming from. However, having first person content such as the core...

Why not? ;) There is no commandment that says, 'thou shall reference only the source material when providing an example.' The design team for Purple Martin Games also helped design the core rulebooks for A5e. Plus I happen to like their Manual of Adventurous Resources: Complete. :) It has my...

A good example of a character gaining a resistance from a heritage and a second resistance from their culture would be a Dragonborn (with the Draconic Armor heritage gift) and the Desert Hierarch culture (MoAR: Complete). The Draconic Armor heritage gift grants resistance to the damage type...

Somewhere out there is a comprehensive list of all the 3pp's that have produced material for 5e over the last 10 years. ;) 5e might have been started by WoTC, but it has grown beyond them in a very big way.

The oddity is not that D&D is WoTC's IP. It's that some people look at 5e adjacent RPGs such TotV or Level Up and say that they aren't 5e. Both were built using 5e's chassis, and both are compatible with 5e. How can they not be 5e in that regard? Now if Kobold Press and EN Publishing had...

I don't own the 2014 PHB, so I was unaware that the disassociation of Ability Score and Skill already existed in 5e. So, I assumed that it's appearance in Level Up's Adventurer's Guide was something new that had been added. I spent the last couple minutes looking up this variant rule in the 2014...

While Level Up also attaches skills to ability scores, it's not a one-to-one connection like it is in 5e. Stealth in 5e, for example, is always associated with Dexterity. In Level Up, you can do a Constitution (Stealth) check to stay still for a long time. An Intelligence (Stealth) check for...

As a result, a lot of the smaller RPG companies have had to use word-of-mouth and crowdfunding in order to promote their products.

I like to think it is just the opposite for me. Being invited by a friend to play 5e with him and his friends is what led me to back Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition. There probably are quite a number of 5e players who have gone out to check out other systems because of 5e's popularity. 5e is a...

You'll have to ask EN Publishing what their intent was when they decided to come out with Level Up. I like to think that @Morrus et al weren't making Level Up just to fix 5e, but to make it more enjoyable for those who wanted something more from 5e. And I think they succeeded with regards to the...

Only if you are dealing with brand loyalty.

Except that 5e is not self-contained because WoTC has allowed third-party publishing companies to create their own 5e material through several licensing agreements. 5e is a Ship of Thesus. No one is trying to stop you from playing 5e or trying to convince you to try out a 5e-adjacent RPG. ;)...

Baneful Recovery sounds like a twisted version of Arcane Recovery. Instead of getting back spell slots by studying your spellbook, you are getting them back by expending some of your own life energy. The expenditure is represented by the level of exhaustion the caster receives from using this...

Baneful Recovery Disbursement

A manifestation zone to the quasi-elemental plane of lightning would be a place of constant storms. Strong wind gusts, tornadoes, more frequent lightning strikes, and torrential rain. Characters within the manifestation zone have an increased chance of being struck by lightning if they happen to...

TotV might have game mechanics that aren't present in the 5e books that could prove to be useful in a 5e campaign. Have you come across anything in TotV that you wish was in 5e?

I can see any Blue or Bronze Dragonborn adventurer visiting this lair feeling quite empowered by their surroundings. ;)

A planar manifestation zone (like the ones in Eberron) that ties to the Quasi-Elemental Plane of Lightning. ;)

Considering that elves, dwarves, halflings and gnomes are basically physical variants of humans, it wouldn't be too hard for them to hide in plain sight within an 'all-human' setting. ;)

The problem is that if anyone, another RPG company or a homebrewer, tries to fix those egregious bugbears for everyone, you then declare that their work isn't 5th edition. Kobold Press came out with Tales of the Valiant, a 5e adjacent RPG and you immediately declare without really looking at it...