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I think there's still room for classes to be C-tier. 5.5e has mostly addressed the D-tier issues, but there's still some....I guess I...

Artificer is definitely the most DM-dependent class, with the only possible exception of Rogue Thief subclass. In a campaign with...

What is the difference between Managing Game Designer and Game Design Director, for us laypeople? In any case, congratulations...

Yeah totally agree but mostly this is a result of Zard trying to fill out the entire span with Best at S-Tier and Worst at D-Tier just...

I generally agree with the list but the spread for 2024 base class power ought to be more like S-Tier at best to B-Tier at worst. The...

Some people complain about that stuff because they don't want to change how they themselves GM in relation to the game they are playing...

Yeah I guess I can totally understand that with the caveat of "at tables that don't optimize, 2024 characters are more powerful" (that's...

I don't understand why people seem to think this, because in my experience it is the 5e2014 characters which are definitely the most...

I wouldn't consider that "mixing" rules. That is just the base assumption for a "5.5e 2024-only" table, that any old 5e content not yet...

I'm playing at a table like this right now, and it works perfectly fine since this particular DM (not me) is very trusting that players...

Speaking only about 2024 rules, it's a ton of fun because you can easily cause Wild Magic Surges on command, and all of the negative...

Dragonborn is only so high for BG3 because it's the default for Dark Urge playthroughs. I don't think Larian released stats on Durge vs...

Pretty much yeah, except not entirely since then Dwarf would be #1

I think the funny thing is that the original "circus troupe" party is the Fellowship of the Ring—humans, hobbits, an elf, and a dwarf...

Nothing. Zero assigned reading. I describe the setting in session zero and answer any questions they have during character creation. The...