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Back at the start of the One D&D Playtest survey process, WOTC tried out an idea of class grouping. One of the first grouping displayed was the experts. This grouping consisted of the Bard, Ranger, and Rogue. Speculation suggested a possible future inclusion of the Artificer. The main unifier of...

I think back in the day, the base system was hard. But the game intended for you to step off the gas sometimes so that you can continue play or mitigate long series of unfortunate accidents or unforeseen consequence. However that was not told so this allowed people to play fair but fair was...

Nah Hunter and Beastmaster in D&D is magical. Problem is how much The issue is the core. Ranger is a core D&D class Ranger is a popular D&D class The only core universal subsystem in D&D is Spells I still argue that Rangers should be infusion users like Artificers. Rangers are more tied to...

Because the hunter subclass doesn't need it. But this does show some of the cognitive dissonance when it comes to the Ranger and Magic. Because Wizard thinks that the ranger is inherently tied to a form of magical senses and thus cast a spell to use these magical senses. BUT Wizards goes...

That was Crawford's explanation. To me it was like clerics. Low level dose of a deity's or patron's power doesn't display their uniqueness. It's like seasoning. Until you sprinkle enough dashes and pinches, you won't taste the flavor. Heck, it could be who patrons came followers. A Fiend can...

Yeah. Most Warforged in my game are artificers on Mechanicus. I more or less injected Unicron into Mechanicus and has him be the dark brother of Primus for evil ones.

My Warforged are blatantly Decepticon. But I had to Homebrew transformation in Combiners or guns

Fortunate for me as a early Millennial, TMNT will always be popular. Just need D&D to do Transformers, Megatron, Soundwave, Shockwave, Devastator, or Starscream would be great dungeon fights

I just feel fortunate as a millennial born in the '80s that what I grew up liking will just be repeatedly created over and over by the media entertainment industry due to their laziness. Thus my preferences will never leave the social fantasy construct that we have in the community and thus not...

I always go by the belief "The DM can make any setting they want with any kind of race, class, or spell restrictions. But the DM isn't entitled to players. The Players can only see the game from the outside. So if the PC options are weak or restricted or nerfed for a reason, even a valid...

Here's another way I'd do it NOBLE KNIGHT PRIEST MAGE SOLDIER MERCHANT COMMONER CRIMINAL BARBARIAN WARLOCK

This is too focused on the races D&D was poor for low power fantasy because of the classes. 90% of the creep of higher fantasy of D&D is from the classes, making classes work in a dungeon, and the worlds and settings to classes. D&D didn't stopped supporting low power fantasy in the 80s. It...

I think this is critical strain between gameplay mechanics and setting aesthetics that many struggle with. The truth is low power fantasy doesn't allow for many mechanical PC archetypes without heavy and complex mechanical complex. Both low quantity mechanical PC archetypes and very complex...

Because they don't admit the problems or ignore what the changes were designed to fix. Neither are perfect. You can complain about beast master rangers having spirit animals but would not admit beasts aren't set up from dungeons as flankers.

Yes. It wasn't even all of 4e. Just mid-late 4e. So only the 4e diehards saw that paradise. 2024 monsters do all kinda have the something between a Skrimisher and Soldier role. WOTC focused on giving many of them a good range attack. And a caster type monsters had their defenses greatly...