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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.

If we can do all three at once, I'd call that a "Wambsgans".

I would replace my PHB with a Laserllama PHB in a heartbeat.

I would agree with you. "5e CAN do it" and "5e does it well" are two very distinct arguments. :)

I generally think of "LitRPG" as pure prose, not webcomics; if you don't use that standard, sure, why not?

Level-by-level multiclassing is totally fine, as long as the system leans into it.

Mechanical options that don't require you to start a new character to try them? Something akin to heresy!

Why not? If I made a class right now for 5e that stopped at 10, what would break (assuming MCing was allowed, of course)?

Oh boy, an argument about whether or not the DM should have control over the setting or that the players should also have setting definition privileges. This should be novel and interesting.

Base classes that weren't 20 levels, and prestige classes with staggered level requirements (you could take PrC 1 at level 5, but can't take PrC 2 until level 8, frex) were design spaces 3.5 and PF1 sadly left unexplored.

The closest I can think of is Mark of the Fool, which is extremely close to 3.5/Pathfinder while not explicitly using it.

The closest example I can think of is The Game at Carousel, which is set in a parallel universe of horror movies where the players/characters all have Fate-like Aspects they can select to use. All the character also have a "class" corresponding to horror movie tropes (The Athlete, The Final...

“The Wheel of Editions turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Fourth Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind arose in the...

D&D is definitely a toolkit; it's just one that requires you to hammer in a nail with your wrench.

I'll be honest, this feels like asking a "How" question ("How do I keep running these games so I don't burn out") when you need to be asking a "Why" question ("Why do I feel the need to run so many games for so many groups?"). Quite simply, you should only be running one group, max, and it...

I'm fine with it in principle. I have no problem with the initial character-building options in the PHB being just a small subset of what actually exists within the setting. My main question/concern would be what is the diegetic relevance of codifying all those spells? If they're something...

I knew someone would raise this point, and I just don't agree. It's fine to volunteer to make that drive to help your friend. But the idea the friend asked another friend to drive back just to run a game for them bothers me.