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To be fair, Soth is based off Vader

And before you say Darth Vader, the quintessential evil villain...he's number one in his category, but IMO, I'm not sure the category is...

Though far more successful poster boy Arthas was, and I think its fair to say that more folks would think of this image when they think...

We were only thinking 5.5.

Not really, it pretty much is useless for anyone who doesn't invest in Charisma. Even Inspiring Leader lets you pick Charisma or Wisdom...

Nice I need to read it more. Pmayer who donates it read Lost Cacerns and Crystal Caves. Updates seem decent as well.

But new Lich feats are constructed in a way that, again, anyone can take them if they have at least single level in spellcasting class...

Lore also says only Wizards become Liches, but pretty much anyone with a single-level dip in any spellcasting class for martials, can...

It feels strangely limited when a lot of soft-ability specific options in 5.5 were expanded to allow player to assign them to a soft...

Some observations I do not like Death Knight focuses on Charisma, which is best out of 3 soft stats already, once survey is on I will...

Or even D&D-adjecent games like Pathfinder or any OSR title?

What a deeply cynical view of the world, it saddens me to see such opinion.

I will just leave link to the amazing Threshold Magazine that does this for Mystara in particular.

Moreover, we pretty much had 3e and all its iterations strongly rewarding system mastery and punishing not making "optimal" choices and...

I for one am not interested in a hard to master system. DnD is not a competitive game like Starcraft.