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Sorcerers to me are the "generic" spellcaster class that has no thematic or narrative identity in the class itself, and all its flavor comes from its subclasses. The same way the Fighter is the generic martial combat class, and the Rogue is the generic skills class. All three classes have no...

Depends. Are we considering 1 to be a lack of excitement because we don't care and have no emotional reaction at all, or are we considering 1 as maximum negative feeling towards the new game, a complete inverse of excitement? I have no emotional feeling towards the new game whatsoever-- don't...

Really? Cause all I see all the time is people around here complaining that D&D is "too complicated". But now you're suggesting that it doesn't need to be simple for new players to get it and that WotC thinks they are "idiots"? Interesting. Maybe that's more that YOU find it simple and you...

Same difference. :D

That's the Psion, LOL!

I suspect they are at level 3 because WotC still wants people to think of levels 1 and 2 as "training levels", not the start of the actual character. Now granted, a lot of people don't like to think of levels 1 and 2 that way (which is why we still see all kinds of people try and design rules...

Can't we all agree on one thing? - Wizards of the Coast will never write things explicitly in the book that make you happy. You will have to presume what you want out of the rules themselves. (And yes, I wrote it that ambivalently because it applies to almost every single one of us in some...

Yo quiero Taco Bell.

Is it actually about martials not having nice things, or currently about whether or not the nice things martials have should be written as supernatural or not. ;)

As far as other universal spells? There are a couple I think you could probably add: Cantrips: Mending 1st level: Floating Disk 2nd level: Arcane Lock 3rd level: Nondetection 4th level: Stoneskin (the most standard Wizard defensive spell) 5th level: Telekinesis (if they have Mage Hand...

If this list is meant to be baseline "universal magic" for all Wizards... and then the individual Schools would fill out the rest of the list for each wizarding character based upon their subclass School selection... then my one comment would be to not have almost any Attack spells in the...

I find it so curious how much time some people apparently enjoying spending making post after post in the thread after thread about 'X' thing they want in the game... knowing full well that WotC is never going to make it, and that most 3PPs are not either because they apparently are like the...

For me the simplest way to designate something as a "narrative" game is to just check whether the game has a separate mechanical suite for combat, or if it uses the same exact mechanics for combat as it does everything else. D&D has its own suite of mechanics for combat, so it isn't. Champions...

For me personally... I will occasionally just install potion and scroll magic into other items. So you can make "wands" that are one-shot items a la a spell scroll-- they get fired once, then just turn into a stick. So they would get used during the fight by the enemies and then no longer be...

How is "give bonus" of the Bard any different than "do thing" of the Cleric? Channel Divinity is no great defined class lore ability while Bardic Inspiration is just some rando feature arbitrarily handed out. That's you looking at things through your own rose-colored glasses. And what's the...