Yes, Action Economy in 5e can be a real b1tch. I had similar issues with my Storm Warden (Sea) Minotaur in the same game.

The Goblin’s nimble escape would sync well with the Gunsmith (even though the disengage bonus action is still competing with the reload bonus action)

Well, Mearls et al have stated repeatedly that they’re examining other settings. Pretty much all of us would like to see the product of such examination. At least they show that they have not canned most of the famous settings as there are guidelines for adjusting 5e material to them.

Moreover, in officially published material there are direct mentions for Planescape, Eberron, Dragonlance, Greyhawk and Dark Sun. I’d agree with you on the fact that Dragonlance and Grayhawk are less likely to be have official material in 5e due the likeliness with FR.

The most probable is the next major storyline (due on Sep’18) happening in FR and maybe this will have to do with the upcoming D&D movie. The spring publication might be a manual to the planes (or something like this) with small adventures happening in some of the aforementioned settings, most (or all) of which will be older modules modified for 5e.

The common magic items are mostly novelties, but they could offer some neat roleplay opportunities.

Love those common items. They fill in such a gap for low level treasure.

I’d like to see an expanded settings book this spring or fall. Give Dark Sun, Eberron or even Planescape their own chapter – similar to SCAG. Part gazetteer, part character options. Even better, throw a SCAG sized book at all of them.

I could see any of those three also getting the setting and an adventure book like Ravenloft and the Underdark.

There has been some talking and job postings about old settings, so I think it might finally be time in 2018.

Dragonlance is my first love, but I don’t see it getting much love with it being so similar to the Forgotten Realms and Tyranny covered dragons.

It would be interesting to see a Spelljammer or something fantasy sci-fi to go up against Star Wars and Starfinder. Perhaps D&D is content to dominate with fantasy.

We had a chance to playtest both the Mystic and the Artificer with my group in an one-off adventure, level 4 if I’m not mistaken. The Mystic (v.02) was awful. Very underpowered compared to the other casters. The Artificer (Gunsmith) was not that bad. Actually, it was rather fun and the class can really bond well with the Goblin Race.

I get what you mean. The Mystic requires the creation of an entirely new system for 5e; it’s an ambitious project, one that’s going to look pretty messy when it comes out of the oven. I thought the basic design of the latest Mystic worked well up to level 9 or 10, but it still has a long way to go.

I like the basic design of the Artificer, but I think they were too stingy with the lists or spells and craftable magic items. The class ends up being very limited in what it can do. In combat, they feel like a caster that can only do cantrips (alchemist) or a Rogue without cunning action (gunsmith).

Well, it is whatever works in your table. For now, I’ve only let PHB+SCAG in the table, but this was because at the time the adventure started (Sep’16) these were the only available source books and thus we agreed that these were to be the only options. To be honest, we had also Princes of Apocalypse Player’s Guide and the Eberron races but none of the players was interested in those.

If everything goes well, we’ll be starting a new campaign sometime in 2018 and then, provided I’m DMing that, I’ll follow the PHB+1 rule. The “+1” will be the WotC published material plus some third party content. Of course, this will be done on par with the setting of the new adventure.