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Why wouldn't it be, at least in theory? A particular PC may never be in a position to learn any given ability, but theoretically they...

Indeed. If we, human from Earth, developped divine concepts oriented around rituals, despite them not producing any actual result, it is...

Once they've met that technique, though, it becomes a known thing in the setting (and one might sometimes ask, quite reasonably, how and...

One of the topics that comes up (you know, not often or anything ...) on D&D threads is the so-called "LFQW," or as other people like to...

I think once the designers of five weeks decided that they weren't going to create new classes unless a setting they wanted to print...

Personally, the mechanics for the Warlock fit better into my mental image of how a Sorcerer should work than the standard casting...

There's been an ongoing argument whether process simulation and genre simulation are even close to the same thing for quite some time.

I think subclasses are pretty good answer to this. You need less main classes when the subclasses can add the specificity. Though I...

FWIW, I think classes are more effective at their role in the game when they ARE diegetic. The more you can focus a class on a specific...

Well, if we are not going to discuss things like that, you might as well shut the place down.

Sure. But this is literally a discussion forum for D&D. People are going to voice their their complaints about how the things are...

My answer is not to handwave them away, but to have the ability in-setting to create such effects.

My answer is to not give that ability to anyone, PC or NPC, and replace with appropriate abilities/spell either could conceivably acquire.

But this is Oberone fallacy stuff. And more rules I need to rewrite, less incentive I have to buy the official rules in the first place.

The relative importance of a character is not a matter of process sim. It might be a matter of genre sim, but honestly I see that as a...