D&D General One thing I hate about the Sorcerer

[FrogReaver]

Popularity and validity are not linked.

they are if one wants them to be

 

[Maxperson]

My point was to say a class cannot assume a certain background for a character because backgrounds are a separate part of character generation. Your cleric could be a temple acolyte, but he could be a sailor, a criminal, a soldier or guild artisan and none of that changes what he is as a cleric now. The sailor cleric isn't limited to sea spells. The criminal isn't capped on what domain be can take. The fighter should not be stuck being mundane because they have to accommodate mundane origin stories. The fighter is not the farmboy or town guard class. It's the "I was a farmboy or town guard or something else, but now I'm something more" class.

Then which base class should be stuck as mundane? There needs to be a mundane class for the myriad of folks(and there are a lot of them) who like a purely mundane option.

 

[TwoSix]

Popularity and validity are not linked.

Of course they are.

 

[CreamCloud0]

I'm fine with that, because the narrative is that they are learning supernatural techniques.

are they though? really? or are they just learning normal martial arts real good? and that let them do fantastical things because this is a world where fantastical things like that are just possible by normal people with good physical training, y'know, like what DnD is like.

 

[Remathilis]

They learn supernatural techniques. The narrative about them makes that clear.

So do paladins. There.

 

[Micah Sweet]

they are if one wants them to be

If you personally decide that popular things are better by your own metric, then sure, but that has nothing to do with anyone else so I don't see how it is relevant.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Of course they are.

Not in any objective way. More valid for making money, I guess.

 

[FrogReaver]

If you personally decide that popular things are better by your own metric, then sure, but that has nothing to do with anyone else so I don't see how it is relevant.

Define ‘better’. Better is a subjective mess with no objectivity.

 

[Micah Sweet]

are they though? really? or are they just learning normal martial arts real good? and that let them do fantastical things because this is a world where fantastical things like that are just possible by normal people with good physical training, y'know, like what DnD is like.

If you cannot show in the game where it says that this is a world where fantastical things are just possible by normal people with good physical training, I have no obligation to accept that as anything other than personal preference not supported by 5e.

Seriously, why are so many people against just putting something they clearly believe in in the book?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Define ‘better’. Better is a subjective mess with no objectivity.

So is the idea that popularity makes a concept more valid or true.