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i dont see how mind control through magic is worse than enforcing compliance through violence.

Mind control is a tool, and the degree of evil it is depends on what you use it for. But that doesn't mean it's entirely neutral. A...

You've got a very Kantian view that certain actions, such as breaking an arm, is always wrong regardless of the circumstances. While...

I think in fantasy and sci-fi, there’s a certain level of the ends justifying the means. It may be immoral but not necessarily Evil if...

Expecting the players to be surprised about the sorcerer kings is kind of like expecting them to be surprised that Strahd is a vampire...

I don't think they consciously chose any story. They had fluff they slapped some rules on, with little thought what those rules...

The whole innate/learned distinction is something that do not exist in most fiction, as often magic & similar are both. You need to have...

Did 5.5 surrender to the haters too?

Or make better mechanics and fluff. Justify the class's existence.

Money. You said money. Money literally works the same regardless of the source. Surely this is the one who got cheat codes via a pact...

Which perhaps is a level of conflation that is fine in a fictional context. But I feel these days in D&D anything pre-WWII gets...

A separate PHB for each tier. Probably a separate MM too. Really focus on what makes each tier distinct, so players feel like they've...

I like to combat that very real tendency by making sure the setting supports the identity. If you received your power via bloodline that...

Honestly, I think the differences should be more stark.

Sorcerer makes much more sense thematically if all those bolded points didn't work, and it was more explicitly ancestral.