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Nitpick - 1dnd Fighteer has the power to add to their skill rolls now. So that's no longer 100% true.

What are humans? Nothing more than a miserable pile of secrets! -- Strahd? To put it simply, we are humans, and humans are us. Whereas every other species reflects some other aspect of the human condition writ large (fantasy is filled with metaphors), humanity is just... us. The human...

What I want to see happen - * wizard spell list trimmed down, with a number of spells going to other casters. The wizard can then pick some back up with subclass spell lists. This will help make different wizard subclasses feel different from each other. * an official way to have paladin...

peeks in Hrm. Lets recap the Psion debate. "We want a Psion class" (translation: we want new mechanics that aren't martial or spellcasting, and using "psionics" as the traditional word to represent this third option) "But we already have psions." (translation: we have multiple classes that...

Tricky tricky. Do you assume that martials won't need Extra Attack, but casters will as part of the progression? I'd need to see more, since the default assumptions between caster and martial would potentially make contradictory abilities.

I'm basing this off the gw2 mmo, where there were lots of choices, specializations, support abilities, and each weapon brought a suite of 5 different abilities per weapon. well, that's not how I've seen any game do things, not even dnd, so gonna disagree with ya.

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I mean... it depends on the design goals. There's a lot that depends on the overall system and stories the game is intending on telling. Personally, I'm happy with a system of 9 - Fighter, Paladin/Cleric merge, Barbarian/Warlock (!!) merge, Rogue, Artificer, Ranger/Druid merge, Bard/Psychic...

Meh. At best, this is a complaint about using gluten free flour instead of whole wheat flour. We still have the cake.

"Class fantasy" is the most commonly used phrase for thematic identity, I found. Mechanical identity seems to be "fighting style" with a bit of exploration and social skill use mixed in. The problem with fighting style is that's a mechanic too, so it doesn't quite work.

This comment certainly hasn't aged well.

No, I'm saying that if the half-elf was brought forwards into 5.5e for some reason, it's mechanics would need to be reimagined and updated because the 2014 ones aren't good enough to carry it anymore. The ASIs were doing a lot of lifting.

As a side note.... Whatever happened to people saying "flavor is free?" Used to be everywhere. I don't see it anymore.

Note that the first half is entirely cultural - diplomats and wanderers especially. The two worlds bit isn't literal, since the half-elf is not necessarily from the Feywild. But if instead we're talking just "the child of two peoples," that again is cultural - because its assuming those two...

Personally, I honestly don't care about specific mechanics, I prefer to discus tropes, vibes, and the like. Because, if we're going to talk about the mechanics... Then we have to address the elephant in the room. Mainly, the greatest mechanical appeal of the half-elf was the fact that they...

No, I just don't think that you can use culture to justify complaints that half-elf no longer exists as a distinct mechanical block. You need arguments rooted in phenotypes. "There is a lack of a less magical Elf adjacent type; there should be someone that stradles the line between magic and...

5.5e species aren't culture, they're primarily biology. You are trying to equate Khoravar culture with being a distinct genotype. So long as you do so, your argument is just stuck in an old edition. I mean... look at this: NEW ELF SUBTYPE Muggle (name pending) - gain a skill instead of...

Musings on the Fighter identity... Even Mearls, at one point, noted that Fighter wasn't really built around a story like the other classes were. Oh, sure, the class writeup up talks about the mercenary, the town guard, the ex-soldier, the farmer boy practicing with his family blade and dreams...

Thoughts On Ranger- Ranger has a really clear class fantasy across multiple game. Monster hunter, tamer and wilderness expert. however... the dnd mechanics have always struggled to encapsulate it. In part because the wilderness exploration rules are kinda bad as a whole. So many end up...

A few bits to keep in mind. Species no longer includes culture bits. Only biology. so an entire culture of half-elves in one setting means nothing. If you want to talk about a reason to keep a distinct set of mechanics, you need to talk about fantasy-biology. I mean, there's a bit of...