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As an example, let’s say the party was entering a major city to meet with the duke. A major city probably has guards at the gate. Just because those guards are there doesn’t mean the DM is required to have a roleplaying scene including them. This is controversial precisely because those sort...

Depends. If the wizard has 5,000 possible spells to receive, but might only get to pick from 200 of those 5000 based on their initial concept (as per the example in post 183), I can certainly see some FOMO getting involved there.

I'm fine with that for some caster classes, but not all. Some people have strong preferences for reliability and control that should also be catered to. An ideal D&D design, for me, recognizes that a lot of different psychological types come to the table for D&D, and uses exception-based...

You could argue that, but I've also seen it argued that it's the closest thing we have to an AEDU 4e structure in 5e. I lean towards the Warlock being one of the better design evolutions in 5e, myself, and wish Pact Magic was the standard casting paradigm.

I can't speak for @Hussar, but I would (and have done this in the past) bail out of the game. I wouldn't do this in my current groups because we're all friends, but in earlier years where I've played with mostly acquaintances, I've absolutely dropped games where the sessions were almost...

It definitely is about all those issues, but I think it's reactionary; there's a certain inevitable frustration when the dominant paradigm (5e) has been so static for such a long period of time (just about a decade now).

It certainly can work. I mean, the entire play loop for casters in DCC RPG is based on the idea that every spell and spellcasting action is open to a ton of variation and randomness. But on the flip side, you can have something like 3.5 Truenaming. I feel like for most games, if you put...

I feel like this really comes down to psychological preference. At its core, not having access to character specific metagame information is disempowering. Depending on your preferences, you can find that disempowerment enervating ("I have no idea if my character concept will actually be...

It maxes out at 20, sadly. I understand why it isn't higher, but yea, I'd totally make it 50 or 100 if I could.

Page 19. What sort of monster doesn’t set the “posts per page” value to maximum? Do you like having to load pages more often??? :)

That seems like one of those classic conflicts between “rules built for play” and “rules built to create verisimilitude”. It might be realistic that your devil summoning only works 40% of the time, but is that actually fun at the table?

Because adding a class, any class, is a proxy for more central disagreements about the nature of D&D. Like "Is the game better with more crunch or less crunch?" or "How much continuous mechanical support should WotC provide?" or "What's the right balance of important for official material...

I was speaking more holistically, not about 1st level specifically. That being said, paladin is a little weak at 1st level for my taste. Although it's not like 1st level balance is actually important, anyway.

When you don't have spells, that seems like a pretty fair ask. That's no more than what a paladin is providing, after all.

Laserllama has alternate versions of most of the PHB classes at this point, so the balance point tends to be focused on balance between their own classes. That being said, I don't think any of their classes are way off balance wise.