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No. D&D classes need to be more and narrower, not broadened even further.

Hands down, I consider Elizabeth Olson's Wanda to be the most terrifying villain in the MCU. I have a crazy pipe dream about an adaptation of TMNT on Netflix based almost entirely around casting Tom Holland as Casey; it has nothing to do with is performance any of the MCU movies, and...

I played TSR D&D-- mostly 2e and Player's Option-- when it was still current, and my favorite editions of D&D still include Player's Option and the Rules Cyclopedia. I play both "modern D&D"-- mostly PF1 and 5e-- and OSR D&D games, mostly Old School Essentials Advanced and White Star. Generally...

I believed all the press about Dafne Keen not being in the movie at all until the last trailer. They got me, and I almost didn't even go see the movie because of it. And yeah... not enough Laura, but every frame of her screen time was pitch perfect. Like, I made an exception for seeing a...

What I would really like is a full-sized expansion of the Tasha's material. More psionic subclasses and feats, rules for "high psionics" campaigns, wild talents.

Kinda hankering to play an Android, Paizo-style. Something along the lines of its Brawler and Ninja racial archetypes.

Yeah, it'd be a pretty big turnoff. Most of my favorite races are too alien to make sense on purely human mechanics. But, ruling them out? If everyone's human anyway, might as well play a human, or pretty much any planetouched or half-human. Gith race traitors, especially if I can swindle one...

Couple of big caveats before I dig into this: "Medieval" isn't actually my preferred flavor of D&D. Thread is on page 8 as of the time I'm writing this and I've only read the OP. So. Classic pseudo-medieval D&D isn't actually my preferred flavor. I do like firearms and printing presses, I...

I've been a vocal critic in the past. There's no doubt I will be a vocal critic in the future. Neither is a reason not to wish him and Chaosium the very best today, and hope for great things in the future. It's a peach of a job, Mearls; congratulations and good luck.

Alternity player species, AD&D monster:

I have gotten a lot of mileage over the years by combining gnomes with fraal. Little red hats and all.

Like many, many others, I am a He-Man kid. A "get up at 4am to watch the Super Mario Bros Super Show... in Spanish" kid. Definitely a Bravestarr kid.

If I got to choose... probably aasimar or something else very human-looking. Based on our personality? Yeah, that's going to shove me into something like orc or bugbear.

I use the array, then allow players to roll against each score, in order. Better score wins. I've never made someone reroll scores because they "rolled too well" in front of me. That's... I do not have a high opinion of that concept.

I feel the passage in the OP describes how I was taught to play "D&D"-- edition doesn't matter-- in 1993. But "challenge" doesn't have to mean "puzzle" or "trick monster"; likewise, player abilities don't have to be Win Buttons. Shake up your encounters, don't assume most encounters are just...

I'm sure learning to play D&D would help them with that. . . Tongue very much in cheek here; I am very much "with D&D", even that weird stuff that Piratecat plays.

I'm already on the announcement list for when the VRC campaign goes live. Thanks for the tip about Paranormal Power.

My preference is that optional/variant rules should be spread through the core books-- supplements are 100% optional-- in sidebars near the standard rules they modify, and then all of the optional rules should either be collated in an Appendix, or at least given a separate index table before or...

I have always been possessed of a firm conviction that psionics were an integral part of D&D, that they belonged in every D&D setting that didn't specifically rule the out-- looking at you, Krynn-- but the rules just weren't in the right place to make that feasible. I tried running "everyone's...