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To be a bit more precise: Beacon is a streamlined/improved lancer (the tactical mecha rpg) but as fantasy with heavy 4e inspiration...

Exactly what it says on the tin. I am, personally, of the opinion that D&D has almost never had an actually simple caster. Note the [+]...

I have seen Fighters be mediocre, defined far more by what equipment they use than what class features they have. The class features...

Let me put it this way: Games--including D&D--have been trending extremely hard toward maximal simplicity, all the time, for...

"Pre con"? I think typos may have eaten an important word or two there, or else that's a term I'm unfamiliar with.

I'll have to check it out when I'm not otherwise occupied. Thanks!

Beacon is a 4e descendent game that takes a bunch of Final Fantasy inspirations, and manages to make a d20 PBTA work.

100% fully agreed. I think the Sorcerer (far more so than the Warlock) makes an excellent platform for being the "Simple Mage", if you...

Elementalist is one of my favorite 4E classes. Its a really simple caster done well. Something which pretty much no D&D like achieved...

I felt the 4e Elementalist did a reasonable job. But yes, there are places where one must ask how to implement small variations (like...

And I have seen far too many instances of "simplifying" that have resulted in driving away tons of fans, harming a game as a result...

My experience differs.

And my response is mostly, why is it everything always becomes spells? It seems to me that 5e has completely lost the art of designing...

The logical answer is More Classes D&D has long time missed a simple Intelligence based cantrip class that can cast high level spels...

The most likely reply you would get from Mr. Mearls (or anyone who more or less agrees with his preferences here) is that that means...