Recent content by Not a Decepticon

The way the game is structured, and, honestly, has been structured since 3e, bad outcomes on something as limited as feats was never a good idea.

Just because we are critical, doesn:t mean it is fair to mischaracterize all critics. And it is common sense people who think about game design are most likely to share opinions on it

Well, I will need to compare and kitbash him with statblock from that one Cthulhu Mythos book from few years ago.

But you presented it as if you were saying voting anything but green will have the entire idea scrapped entierly and never be seen again.

But these ideas need serious work, not just slight adjustments.

Blandness comes from demanding that every class has an option that is functionally identical and narratively serves the same function, but has ribbons tied to it and barrying other classes from picking it. Waste of space and creativity for meaningless minutia. If the fluff of the class matters...

Filled the survey, this UA has a lot of things to criticise

To balance how overpowered one bad design in the original was, they're giving some weak designs in this one?

Agreed, I personally am not a fan of this weird obsession modern society has with monetizing our hobbies and judging people who don't. @Maenalis a suggestion - maybe you should do your magazine the way Threshold does: you declare a theme and accept articles for that theme, regardless of type...

Stop making "blandification" happen, it won't happen. Let me get this straight. You look at modern Cleric, that goes to battle with armor, often heavy, swining mace with divine power and dispersing will of their god, just like a Paladin, and you think they could not make sense as a Death Knight...

Not only you switched from saying entire publication must be profitable or it's just to "grind an axe", to a much weaker "editors need to be paid", you also pretty loudly brodcasted an abhorrent belief that it is somehow wrong to put yourself into your work. It all gives me read that betrays...

You think someone cannot have passion about what they love enough to contribute to it, but instead must either have an axe to grind or wants to sell you something? Listen, it's alright to not be naive, but distrusting everything and demanding from others to conform to your cynical view because...

Dude, this is a discussion about a fanmade d&d magazine, this is a level of cynicism and negativity that gives me second-hand embarassment for you.

None of the flavor provided pidgeonholes it into specific classes the way limiting it to Charisma only does. And flavor-wise, if something is made to be a fallen Paladin then what exactly is a reason it cannot work with Cleric too? If it is designed for Fighter, then surely it should also work...

Sylvannas Windrunner in WoW, Kalistra in League of Legends, Saber Alter in Fate: Heven's Fell, Joan d'Arc in Drifters. Also, I know this is limited to my preferences, but Soulcatcher from Ten Who Were Taken in Chronicles of the Black Company.