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As much as we've disagreed in the past, I like you being here too Micah, and I'm sorry your hands are tied, even as I'm glad that there are guidelines regarding safe spaces. Not going to pull on that thread further, though, hope we can move back to the discussion at hand, but just want to...

Sure, but at what point is the character archetype no longer serviced by the system with the Paladin class compared to other options like the War Domain Cleric? If you are an archer with armor and divine spellcasting but no smites, are you REALLY a Paladin? You may have lay on hands but at what...

Sorry, that was worded poorly. I intended to suggest that 4e produced so many different titles within its lifespan, but to middling and rapidly dropping off sales numbers. My 4e library is still quite a bit bigger than my 5e library - when ONLY considering the 1st party books and modules. When...

I'm not sure the universal spell lists are going to stick. I think this is part of why people have said they DON'T like power source spell lists. They've had to make too many classes far more finnicky to accomodate signature spells not being on their power-source list or made spells entirely...

And for what it's worth, balance is always something the DM has to tinker with on the fly. The game is NEVER going to be perfectly balanced. Even 4e tried that and people criticised it of being uninspired and video-gamey for doing so. 5e is a lot more loosey-goosey with the rules, and has a lot...

The great thing about D&D is that it's YOUR game and you can customise the rules to fit YOUR table. It's not a rigid set of video game code that tells you no-bad-wrong-fun. If you prefer 2014's version, stick with it! If you want the revision, switch to it! You can mix and match, but can...

Note that I referred to OD&D/Basic/A1e/A2e as a ship of theseus separate from 3e/Pathfinder 1e separate from 4e separate from 5e separate from Pathfinder 2e. Advanced 1e and Advanced 2e WERE functionally the same system, but a refinement thereof, in the same way that B/X was a refinement of...

4e sold SO many books. We're STILL not to the number of 4e books with first party 5e books, in well more than 2x the amount of time (and 4e slowed down precipitously after 2010, so really it was 3 years of 1-2/month and then 3 years of maybe a 1-2 per year). 5e has gone the slow and steady...

If splat sold, we wouldn't have a 5e. Nor 4e, for that matter. Adventures sell because the most time consuming part of the game is prepping to run it. DMs continue to be the primary sales demographic. Splat competes with Splat. Unless you're CONSTANTLY starting over with new characters, you're...

I like the idea that Lesser Wish is accessible at lower levels while True Wish is 10th Level Spell, accessible as Epic Boon. And some class features might grant True Wish with some limitations like your Genie Patron makes the Wish for you and they may interpret it literally or jerkishly…

But the point is that while they don't expect you to, they are maintaining it as an option. It increases the net of their sales demographics rather than alienating everyone who decided it wasn't time to buy new core rule books. If you're new to the game, you'll likely pick up the 2024 books. But...

YESSSSSSS. I LOVE IT. I had a similar thought for an Arcane bounty hunter character class that I was trying to make its own thing but kept feeling like it was too limited to be a full class. I ended up putting this "Spellbinder" or "Vanguard" as a homebrew Artificer subclass. :)

I feel like they gimped the Bard's healing capacity for the quixotic sake of the Arcane Spell List. They claimed to fix it by replacing Song of Rest with Songs of Rest, giving us access to healing spells through a class feature instead of our spell list, but that took the place of the Bard's...

Deep Gnome were their own full species option as early as Elemental Evil Player's Guide. It was only later that they parsed it out to show what elements of the stat-block were Svirf-cific and which ones were uGnomeversal.

It is missing out VASTLY on subclass count, though. And there's so much more that can be done with it. But it would need an update if they want to update it in such a way that plays nicer with the other revised classes. My issue with this is that Artificers are more than ANY other class defined...

This is what 5e always was. It was was 4e always was. It was what 3e always was (and is the relationship between 3e and Pathfinder 1e, to boot). It was what Original, Basic, 1e, and 2e always were. Just by natural shifting expectations of the game over time, errata accumulates, and...

They said they want to separate the Paladin and the Ranger more, that the Paladin should be melee not Ranged. That suggests they want to define it more and they got feedback that Ranged Paladins were stepping too much on Rangers. That's my reading of the what they were saying in the video...

Yes, you can, BUT the way the devs are talking, they want to take away Archery Style again and really push the Paladin into a melee focus.

Sacred Archers too. I feel like Kikyo from InuYasha is more of a Paladin than a Ranger or a Cleric. I'm also worried about hiding ranged Paladin behind a subclass would mean that you can't play your character until 3rd level because you're forced to use melee weapons or fists until then. And...

13th Age is what I like to call D&D 4.75e, much as Pathfinder was 3.75e. So as Pathfinder 2E was 3.75.2, this would be 4.75.2. :p