D&D General Which Sacred Cow Will Be The Last To Slaughter?

[J.Quondam]

Seriously? D&D itself will fade, long before most of what makes D&D "D&D" does.

 

[Yaarel]

NOTE: This is supposed to be fun.

As D&D goes through changes into the foreseeable future -- and there is no reason to belive it won't continue to exist -- some of those changes are sure to be the removal of vestigial elements. At the far end of the timescale, when morlocks are pretending to be eloi, what will the last of D&D sacred cows to go?

Vancian is already gone in 5e.

For me, xp is already gone. We count encounters per level.

I think, levels are the last to go: the concept of advancing from weak to strong.

 

[Minigiant]

Classes.

Because of the unlimited high fantasy of D&D, classes have become necessary to keep everyone from simply picking the same things and all making the same character both in world and out

Who would choose not to cast wizard and cleric spells if they were not barred from it?

 

[Reynard]

I suspect the colonialist mockery of Hindu religious traditions might be among the first to go.

Holy Crap i just got it. A+. Good job.

I can't tell if this is a joke, a troll or a serious statement.

 

[MarkB]

I think the term "sacred cow" will actually be the last to be slaughtered, although I certainly hope it's first on the list. The idea that something needs to be removed only because it's old is just...silly.

Isn't it more the idea that something needs to be retained simply because it's old? That it's a concept or game-mechanic that's venerated purely because it's always been there and that's how we've always done it. It's not about gratuitously removing things.

 

[CleverNickName]

Isn't it more the idea that something needs to be retained simply because it's old? That it's a concept or game-mechanic that's venerated purely because it's always been there and that's how we've always done it. It's not about gratuitously removing things.

That could also be the case. I guess it depends on how you feel about "sacred cows."

 

[Oofta]

I suspect the colonialist mockery of Hindu religious traditions might be among the first to go.

Don't have a cow, man. That is udderly ridiculous.

 

[MNblockhead]

I voted "DM", though as a 99% DM, I've never been called "sacred." ;-)

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I voted "DM", though as a 99% DM, I've never been called "sacred." ;-)

Sacred? No.
Scared? Often!

 

[MNblockhead]

Uhm. It's already gone. 1st level characters haven't been "zeroes" since WotC took over. PCs in 5E start out almost as superheroes.

Which is why I would like them to add "level zero" rules to 5e (or 5.5e or 6e). They published level zero rules for an Adventurer's League adventure that I use in all my campaigns (DDAL-ELW00: What's Past Is Prologue). I also use a "funnel" system for the first session, where each player starts with 4 level-0 characters and select from any who survive. I took this from Dungeon Crawl Classics. May be too associated with DCC for WotC to ever add character-funnel rules to D&D.