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WotC asked for feedback. It's not INTERNET RAGE to give them that feedback. This is literally a question WotC has provoked, intentionally, to see if something works. Telling them it doesn't work like that is valid, useful, and, indeed, part of what we should be doing as a community. If...

I think this would be a fine fiction, especially when you hit Tier 4 and are legit a hero of legend anyway.

That's exactly the thing this design is meant to address! Legendary swords of valor as guaranteed class power!

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Items in fantasy fiction are often part of a character. Hell, it's trite enough that kid's shows featuring powerful characters will often have an episode that is explicitly "I'm heroic because of how I use my powers, I'm special because of who I am, and my magic rainbow wand or sword of destiny...

It's just not a good design, and not a great piece of art. Cartoony, not very threatening, kind of mindless. Even the weapons read as kind of...bland. It's OK, and I like that it's shown doing its thing, and I dig the beheading, and being chaotic and hard to read is kind of on brand for a...

Is ranged area damage something that Fighters struggle with that needs to be addressed? I thought Fighters were pretty OK when it came to combat performance relative to mages, right? Cuz the thing I'm hearing is that the martial/caster divide is more about the high-level wahoo stuff that...

This design's premise is that, at least at high levels, we are going to embrace magic. That D&D is a game about magical characters doing magical things with magic, and that if you want a grittier game with lower stakes and more grounded kinds of fantasy, you're going to want to fit that in about...

Yeah, this is the idea! There needs to be some kind of excuse for why others can't wield it, but that's not much of a hurdle. This is ~kind of~ the intent behind some very old D&D design (why fighters get so many weapon/armor proficiencies is, in part, because the "best" magic items are things...

Nah, this kind of Fighter never casts spells. But, their capabilities are not limited by what a "normal person" could do, because they have the skill and superhuman ability to wield items that can shape the multiverse. Because the difference between a Fighter and a Wizard isn't about combat...

This isn't a dealbreaker, it's just a requirement of the design. Like, we have spells that only work for people who know how to use them. Maybe the sword that cuts through dimensions also only works for people who know how to use it. Weapon masteries are already a step in this direction (if a...

Angel Summoner / BMX Bandit. The power to swing a sword REAL GOOD will never really be equal to the power of being able to literally make your wish come true once a day. Training doesn't let you transcend dimensions. I always wonder what would've happened if magic items followed the same arc...

Sure. Fly speed of 10 feet, so pretty slow regardless. Stealth rules being the ambiguous mess they are, this is somewhat up to DM judgement, but I wouldn't give any extra advantage that being invisible and being a cloud don't already confer. I could probably be talked into Advantage if the...

I'm pretty critical of "damage-on-a-miss," but I kind of like this as a narrative. Yes, correct. The greatsword does not miss. A character with a weapon mastery is a very skilled user of that weapon. Like, top-tier, even at 1st level. And the greatsword is a big sheet of sharp metal. I am 100%...

Yeah, I'm on board with this. I especially like how you framed the transition from tool to target, since I think that gets at how this keeps happening. Because in D&D, combat encounter design is not really the goal, and yet....there's quantification there....and many designers are going to...

The first hiccup here is that being a hobgoblin with a longsword matters to the DM, too, in as much as the DM is pretending to be a hobgoblin with a longsword and not merely facilitating a mathematically determined outcome between two buckets of numbers. That consistency isn't JUST important for...

One of the points I'm advocating for is that it is substance. Not just presentation and preference. That being worth doing means it is doing some work in the play of the game. It is pretense, but so are many things of substance in the game. Monster stats themselves are a pretense. It takes...

One of the things that seems to be a little...slid over...in conversations like this is how "reifying" game elements helps in game play. Like, treating a hobgoblin statblock in a baldly mechanical way is like pointing out that Romeo never really drinks poison and doesn't really die on stage and...

Hmm...let's see... If the team is using rules similar to the 2014 rules (and it seems that they are), they're averaging Defensive CR and Offensive CR (which is another thing the "average"-focused analysis can't take into account). This lines up with the "average" analysis noting that the...

"Playing D&D" is probably going to be a pretty small slice of what this project is meant to cover. Movies. Video games. Novels. Probably some adventures or setting material, too, no doubt, but those are only a part of this. Remember when Eberron was tapped as the setting for the D&D MMO? This...