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100% this, subclasses are just feat chains.

it’s not that they won’t, it’s that it is yet one more thing to look into before you can start rather than after you have started. Less...

What are you talking about? Their character is their character at level 1. If you "come online", then you are looking for some kind of...

it may be a few minor features at level 1, but you're still making them pick a massive part of the trajectory of their character in that...

No, it does matter. It's about complexity and choice overload. Why not spread out meaningful choices? I see this happen so much. Some...

When is the last time you played with new players? And if starting at 5th or 6th level isn't a problem, why don't you wanna start at...

It's not dumb. It makes multiclassing slightly less obnoxious, and makes it easier for beginners to play the game. There are enough...

Okay, to clarify, i don’t think the concept behind multiclassing is bad and should be removed, being able to combine class archetypes...

i don't really care about getting my subclass features at 1st and understand and agree with the points made for delaying them to third...

There's IMO more than enough design space to have a very limited number of PC-playable species that aren't Human and then give clear...

The term has shifted over time, then; the point with the epithet thrown toward certain kinds of GMs was that they either completely...

I've seen two strands of play over the years getting thrown into the "Viking-hat" concept. One is that the GM is going to run the...

I want to add to this as a bit of a digression, because.. reasons. :P I ran a game of Forgotten Realms where there was some reason for...

Because, as we all know, the internet only supports the extremes. We can embrace the broad space between "the GM is all-powerful" and...

Conan is regularly defeated, even if he can't die for plot reasons. Sometimes even just he's sneaking down the corridor and some mook...