Recent content by TrippyHippy

I don’t have any problem with ‘psychic’ magic using Classes. It’s all just fluff to me that an Aberrant Sorcerer or a Great Old One Warlock is classified as ‘psychic’. However, I think including psychic martial Classes is a waste of an opportunity to get some more compelling archetypes for...

Oooh....can I play a Mindflayer?

Well, I’d consider them big and strong by their description. Anyway, I think the changes in the ‘species’ is swings and roundabouts really. Half-Elves and Half-Orcs are being replaced as far as I am aware - and Half-Elves aren’t ‘big and strong’ particularly. There are dozens to choose from...

Are Dragonborn not ‘big and strong’ or have they been ommitted?

Probably true. I’m in two minds about the 2024 updates, in all honesty. While it would be nice to see some tweaks - like fixing the Ranger (is that happening?) - some of the other changes (like introducing psionic fighters and rogues as core) leave me a bit cold. At the moment, because I am...

Slightly askew question, but with the new, snazzy, updated D&D5E (Not A New Edition!) coming out soon, will WotC make the old 5E (2014) core books available as purchasable PDFs on drivethrurpg to go along with all the other previous D&D editions?

I do think that the whole need to ‘balance’ magical and non magical classes is a bit overstated too really. Not everyone wants to play a super-powered character. Wasn’t it the case that some poll showed the most popular character Class is still the Champion-style Fighter? I would just prefer the...

Not me. I would just prefer if the game stopped escalating the power at all levels generally with every new publication.

I’m not certain that D&D is contending with video games as much as people assume. D&D should set it own standards on such things as its own tabletop medium. I guess it depends on how inclusive and generic a fantasy RPG you want to make D&D. Other fantasy RPGs - including alternative forms of...

Compared to the number of magic wedding character types, that is a minuscule fraction that don’t use some sort of magic (and it looks like the Assassin will be removed). It isn’t reflective of the type of fantasy we see in fantasy books or even movies. It just feels like fantasy superheroes to me.

Thanks. Not really keen on the Psi Knight or the Soul Knife then, but this is the same issue for me as the Eldritch Knight and the Arcane Trickster. That is, I’d have preferred they included more non-magical, non-psychic, and generally non- super-powered archetypes for these traditionally...

I’m not sure if I really like the addition of Psi-SubClasses as of yet. Can somebody remind me how psionic powers work in D&D? Are they significantly different from the normal magic systems?

Could somebody tally a list of which Classes/Sub-Classes will be included in this book? I mean, it is pretty much central to the sales-pitch I’d have thought.

I don’t think drivethrurpg sales really amount to more than a fraction of what is made via retail circuits, however.

RPGs are more expensive than they have been for a while - mostly based on distribution costs - and the transitional period for D&D has slowed things down on top of this. Personally, I have enough RPG books for the most part anyway. Obviously, there is some enjoyment in collecting more stuff but...