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Sure they do. The Battlemaster is a swordmage. But the designers just chose to fluff the magic as "combat maneuvers". ;) Someone...

Swordmage. The word you're looking for is "Swordmage". PF calls it "Magus" but I don't care for that name myself. Still works as a...

No, I don't think that. I just really, really don't like a lot of the messaging that surrounds the "traditional GM" position. It takes...

Sure, perfect language is impossible. I don't think that means it's now pointless to say "hey, that specific word? that one single...

I mean, it did. 5e just chose not to implement it.

Plenty of things come and go with time. Druids in 2e, a least, didn't get the ability to change shape until 7th level. Now it's innate...

My point was that this shows that talking about "metagaming"--using that word--is simply unhelpful. Those who use it intend it to be a...

Thank you for your extensive and really well reflected answer! The purpose of this question was that this is reflective of what is...

Sure, but that's exactly what I'm arguing. Almost all of us have one or two metagame things we excuse because they're useful, or...

Hi guys! i just want to share my latest dnd artwork with you, enjoy! :D (no AI) warhammer homebrew xD, Tiefling Potrait I hope...

That is merely adequate game design. Good game design rewards the player for playing in ways designed to be a good experience, and...

They suddenly gain spellcasting. That's a pretty dramatic shift. Sure they do. Consider the Beast Master Ranger, or the Valor Bard...

Are you serious? I literally just asked for a rephrasing. That's now "hostile"? I'm not sure I'm going to have much more to say to you...

...okay? Game design is not the same as game teaching. I understand that the people who enact rules (or laws) may or may not be...

That's a really antagonistic and jaundiced view of what I wrote. Like that is actively reading the most hostile things into what I said...