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Late to the party – last page I had read before this was Page 8 – I just submitted a support ticket to D&D Beyond as follows, attaching an image of the former Spelljammer credits (also attached here).

I'd love a fatigue or morale mechanic implemented in the game, less extreme than exhaustion but along those lines, and along the lines of inspiration.

Use the 3 NPC classes in Essentials Kit / Tasha's Cauldron. They're great for this, and can stay leveled with the PCs without overshadowing them. You can even let the players take turns or collectively choose the actions for these NPCs.

How about Int Sorcerers? Basically get the Psion then…

v5.2 does seem battle-grid heavy and hard to do theatre of the mind with. In that way it's closer to 4e and v3.0-3.5's Miniature's Game, but mostly it seems like this was designed too sell subs to the virtual tabletop.

This happened with Metroid Dread too and people were pissed. You remove team members from the credits and you're essentially erasing their CV, because in the industry, credits are how CVs are crosschecked. I don't think this is negligence though - one day it was there and the next it wasn't. I...

The problem with the BOOM comics were that they're considered non-canon to the overarching MtG narrative. They were doing their own thing, for better or worse. Better in that they had the characters that people know and love and could play in the setting spaces introduced without worrying about...

So how long until we can start CharOp, now focused on Background x Origin Feat x Class x Subclass instead of Species x Class x Subclass? I wanna see the Red-Purple-Black-Green-Blue-Cyan-Gold options colors back again!

More combat focused = more people needing to use a tabletop grid (with minis, buy yours today!) or a virtual tabletop (what luck! D&D Beyond subscribers get integration of the digital books they buy with the tabletop!).

Something akin to Zelda’s Koroks & Ghibli’s Kodama (so like if we had a PC species of Chwingas?). Cactusfolk from Magic: The Gathering. An Evil Eye Goliath subtype. Dunedain / Tuathan / Half-elves / Feytouched / Fey Ancestry Humans / High Humans or something akin to these — Humans but long...

Ardling to me makes more sense as the 3 alignment upper planes parallel to Tiefling. Archons / Guardianals / Bariaur are all well emulated with Ardling. Aasimar is instead about Angels, which could be any of the upper plane alignments.

Human Dwarf Elf Halfling Aasimar Dragonborn Goliath Gnome Orc Tiefling

Wizards have spells and a couple supporting features for additional spells or reusing spells. Monks have Focus Points and Martial Arts and Weapon Mastery and Extra Attack and other features. There-in lies the complexity. Wizard may have a huge spell list, but it's still all about spells.

I feel like there's room for Rogue and Monk and Barbarian Dancer subclasses. It feels like the sort of concept like Arcane Gish, where multiple classes have a take on the idea.

Wizard is considered average complexity because it's not specialized, and because nearly all its class features are spells and not fuddly dials. Just BECAUSE you can swap out your spell list every day and one spell a short rest doesn't mean you will. I imagine they also had a design mandate to...

And given that MtG Arena and D&D Beyond are both hugely popular apps for playing their respective games, that makes sense. It also makes sense in light of the Virtual Tabletop. Remember that 4E was created because of the push for Digital Tools + Virtual Tabletop, that collapsed in on itself...

Agreed that MtG breaks worlds too often, and Maro has made a point that this is a continuous problem that they are now actively trying to avoid doing. That said, MtG has great worldbuilding and art because it's built on the backs of Hasbro's most profitable business strategy (getting kids into...

Almiraj were popular enough in early RPGs that they made their way into 1988's Dragon Quest III as an early-game monster, and then made repeated appearances before showing up in the wildly popular "Pokémon-clone" – 1998's Dragon Quest Monsters. In modern games, they've been "translated" as...

If we're talking backstage developments, my game world is largely based on a theoretical future earth continent orientation and what that would mean for ocean and wind currents, climate, evolution, and biogeography. But all that is stage dressing that I then built my civilizations upon. The...