Recent content by Neonchameleon

Well played WotC/WizKids. Nice mini, and this change will do far more viral advertising than they could have bought with a reasonable amount of money (and watching the outrage may be fun). Glad Elmore pulled back his initial reaction.

Of course the reason for the existence of the sorcerer was literally to give an excuse to include more wizard spells in the PHB. The fact that over 4e and 5e the sorcerer has developed into a much more interesting class than the class it was supposed to be the servant of (to the point you'd lose...

The Marvel and DC universes. In the Marvel universe most of the X-men (starting with Prof X, Jean Grey, Storm, and the Scarlet Witch) would be on the inherent side of the fence while Dr Strange would be a wizard.

And I can report that there's a reason I bring up the 4e Elementalist (generally a Pyromancer) on a regular basis. It was a caster with a simple "I burn it" approach and about the complexity of a 5e fighter. And with at least two of my players it was exactly what they had been looking for...

The thing here is that I've played warlocks and sorcerers that were very distinct from other warlocks and sorcerers. With wizards by swapping just one piece of equipment (their spellbook) they almost entirely blur together.

And the way I see them, especially re: the sorcerer and the wizard is that the subclasses need to be cool in their own right. And this is where to me the wizard fails spectacularly. An evocation specialist is just someone who studies books and spends more time studying evocation spells. The...

Accessibility isn't just "handholding content". You need T1 to be easy, T2 (i.e. the vast majority of the game) to be accessible. And a lot of people already struggle with the number of spells the average seventh level cleric has to juggle.

The wizard is a sorcerer with a cool twist, that of the spellbook. Meanwhile different sorcerers have different twists; a Divine Soul sorcerer is a different twist to spellbook, as is the Shadow Sorcerer. And the bard is not a flavoured wizard in the slightest; the wizard's twists beyond being...

Why? The sorcerer and warlock are distinct in both mechanics and fiction. If we're cleaning out the redundant spellcasters then the wizard should be a sorcerer subclass. It doesn't really have distinctive mechanics other than its spell book (which is a fine foundation for a sorcerer subclass)...

I definitely do in Tier 2 Says a veteran player. And it's the overwhelmed by options. Very occasionally. Even your examples don't really work. If you're willing to squint hard enough to use the battlemaster as a lazylord I don't see this as any more of a reach. Honestly I think you need to...

This is, to me, a core problem with trying to roleplay in both D&D 5e and in TSR-era D&D. You are forced to choose your character early and after that advancement is on rails and not reflective of what you actually do. To me this isn't a problem. Defining your character at first level and so...

I think the biggest two differences between 4e and 5e are: How much of your character's abilities are inherent to you and how much are just equipment How what you do in combat varies from round to round, allowing you to emphasise what is important for your character. I'll start with the second...

They're Dragonborn. Fire breathing lizardmen first and strength is very much secondary. Goliaths and orcs are both about the strength and power.

What is my goal? And am I interested in wizard-specific stuff or general caster stuff. I'm trying for a least-changes approach here; I want to keep D&D D&D rather than to change its casting and therefore its character into some other game. I therefore don't want WFRP style casting-with-blowback...

And explicit inspiration of the fighter according to the 2e PHB. "The fighter is a warrior, an expert in weapons and, if he is clever, tactics and strategy. There are many famous fighter from legend: Hercules, Perseus, Hiawatha, Beowulf, Siegfried, Cuchulain, Little John, Tristan, and Sinbad...