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True but thats why conviction matters, though that also comes down to not being flippant about the preferences of the audience either. Theres a balance to be had and WOTC is too far away from the conviction side of things. Im reminded of an anecdote, that Im positive I read somewhere on this...

Thats why establishing that default setting is important, because then you don't lose the details in the endless sea of variants. In my games lore, all sapient beings are one of either self-reincarnated warrioes of Odin, the created children of a blind god, or the hundred times over experiment...

Part of it in my estimation is that anime has become self-referential in a way that cartoons (at least American ones to go by what Im familiar with) haven't in decades. Like, the Hanna Barbera era of cartoons all have a very distinctive aesthetic, crossing all kinds of genres from superheros...

I think the issue though is that DND doesn't really have a baked in default setting. The Realms are still there as guidelines here and there, but especially lately it's not typically assumed as the default unless you're strictly playing modules, and even then! That lack of a true common ground...

Its more a brand new game but I get your meaning :) The principle issue I think is mostly that all Martials rely on and center around basic attacks, which to make an analogy is like the formless grey nutrient cube to the varietys of Cheesecake Factory overindulgence that is most magic in DND...

Funnily enough I was just looking at movie Aragorn for the entire design. Nearly every single fight Aragorn takes on in the movies is him alone versus a bunch of enemies, and even Faramir, the other Ranger, is kind of depicted like this, though more stealth and ambushed oriented. So taking...

I like to think my take on it threads the needle. At least as far as having a complex semi-crunchy Martial goes. And while that Warrior is nearly entirely mundane (its support abilities aren't per say, but they're close enough, and it obviously scales beyond human capability) this is going to be...

My solution to not overlapping Rangers and Paladins was to give Rangers unique AOE mechanics centered around exploding dice. Very thematically appropriate and solidifies a specific niche for the Ranger that isn't lackluster, and lets me do whatever I want with Paladins.

I'm positive the over-obsession with niche protection is the single reason DND seems beset by something no other fantasy world or genre ever concerns itself with. Special weapons, be they magical, divinely empowered, or just really well made, are a trope in fantasy that has its roots in more...

There is actually not a single class in the 2014 PHB that doesn't have access to magic as either part of its base or a subclass.

Utility magic is usually the culprit here. There is very few universes out there in fiction where magic is so all encompassing and able to do everything with little to no cost that somehow juxtapose that with regular people being just as important and relevant to the plot, and of those most of...

I don't think its that black and white of a spectrum. Having more codified mechanics tied to skills doesn't mean ir has to be a lot of repetitive minutia rules. That honestly defeats the point in my opinion.

This was, if unconsciously, why LNO characters ended up being built from Skills up. Every skill will have explicit mechanics and every skill matters as they're what drives progression and class resources.

Over in Reddit land people would get really damn confused when I would say that DND isn't a competition. A lot of people, at least online, do not recognize that the game isn't about being the specialest snowflake and that its the party as a group that matters. Plenty the game does (like...

Case in point, pretending I (and others) haven't exhaustively engaged with every single word you've said in this topic.

I think it bears repeating that thus far, only one person has expressed a specific reason to be resistant to the idea that this a new edition. @Remathilis point about not wanting to start all over again is a good argument for not wanting this to be a new edition, but the things he points out...

One would hope that by rolling the supplements into the core that they would be updated and corrected for their own issues. While one could easily assume that that isn't what would happen, as far as the hypothetical goes its what you'd want to do. Update everything and consolidate into a...

Not just optional but literally not official content in the same vein as published material is. So you do want a new edition? And thats without getting into the fact that you basically just called OneDND band aid lol. explicitly calls my own assessments educated guesses You: "you think...

I think thats something everyone here should be able to agree on, that if this was just a genuine update and nothing else, nobody here would have a problem with it. Supplements can (and should) be folded into the core game at some point. What 2024 could be is just one big set of everything...

When you spend 20+ years arguing on the internet you get a pretty good knack for asessing how people will behave based on how they communicate. You may think its insulting, but all that indicates to me is a guilty conscience.