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Er...no, feats predated Specialties. Specialties definitely got at least three iterations, and as part of that the entire "Warlord Fighter" concept got offloaded into the...Medic or Healer Specialty, can't remember which. So when Specialties died, it took out that core which they'd been...

"Prove it." "Oh, none of that meets the requirements I didn't specify in advance, so you proved nothing." Are these goalposts military kids? Because they're moving so often I don't think they can form meaningful long-term relationships with their peers.

Genasi is definitely the big one. Thri-Kreen will be needed for Dark Sun--and could be used as a basis for Tharks, which would be cool. I'd like to see a proper, serious plant-people species, Shardminds, and satyrs. Would be cool to see wemic/lion-taur types again, haven't had them in a while...

Which I find fascinating--because that implies that, at least for you, rules are irrelevant to whether it feels like you're playing D&D. That opinion does not seem to be particularly widely-held today--and God in Heaven I wish it were.

Sure, I grant that. That's why I drew the distinctions I drew. They clearly saw that the feedback on both Specialties and Proficiency Dice was bad. And eventually both were just dropped; the former disappeared entirely, much to the detriment of the game because they'd put all their eggs in that...

We--and I very specifically mean "I" as part of that we--certainly should give the designers more grace than we--I--do. Conversely? There are certain mistakes that can be made which do look like a lack of effortful pursuit of solutions. Completely 100% canning the original playtest versions of...

Not....really seeing the connection there.

I have, yes. It's been interesting. He and I have very different perspectives on play--but we have drawn many similar conclusions despite our differences. It's actually been very heartening that someone who comes at D&D from a very different starting point has reached many conclusions I have...

So, needing to carefully consider the size and space of the vehicle you're moving doesn't help you park vehicles generally, which might vary in size quite a bit over the years? Parking a Ford Taurus is going to be quite different from parking, say, a Ford F-150--both vehicles my father owned at...

Not at all a false equivalence. Extra Attack is, quite clearly, a damage feature. That's literally what it's for. It has no other use except to deal more damage. Like you couldn't get a more direct equivalence across editions if you tried. Silly, sure! But if it is silly to do in 5e and 5e...

It's not a "taunt" at all, and is in fact logically and procedurally the exact inverse of a taunt. It forces the actual brain behind the monster--the GM--to make a choice. Taunts are mind control, forcing an opponent to attack one and only one target no matter what it might want to do. "Threat"...

Let me put it this way: All Clerics have the capability of casting cure wounds and healing word in 5e; it's simply a matter of whether they, y'know, actually elect to do so or not. Does that mean Clerics are "rigid[ly]" locked into being healers? Every Fighter has Extra Attack and gets up to 4...

Roles aren't rigid in 4e to begin with.

Artificer would struggle to replace the Wizard. You might be able to pull it off, but it wouldn't be a clean fit. Artificer probably cannot replace a Fighter, even with the appropriate subclass. I could see them being a decent "off-Fighter" if we wish to view it that way. That leaves Healer...

You see no value in learning so pointedly the lesson "two vehicles might work VERY differently despite seeming superficially similar"?

A wood fire "works every week" (indeed, any time) for cooking and baking, and humans used wood fires for literally thousands of years to do their cooking. I strongly suspect that you would not prefer that all the cooked food you eat be prepared using exclusively wood fire, without temperature...

Pacific Northwest, yes. Never actually been up into the Canadian portion thereof, but I've been close, did a couple marching band competitions in northern Washington.

I'm PNW born and raised and that perfectly comports with how I would use that word. Writing a novel is a lot of effort. It is hard to write a novel. Doubly so to write a successful one.

I don't see how it has no impact on your chosen rubric. To whit: Railroading: Running systems which actively oppose railroading would directly help a GM see how railroading causes problems, while not railroading can be done without harming the cohesion and groundedness of the setting...

7th level now. Just got 4th level spells recently. Subtle and Careful metamagics. Careful has been quite useful, as noted. Subtle was vitally necessary at early levels, as I said to Mr. Farquhar earlier, and as I have actually seen opponent mages perform counterspell, it will be useful in the...