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Yeah, kits are basically just proto-subclasses. Not that kits were ever consistent given how they tended to run the gammut from "Completely changes how your class behaves" to "i dunno you got some extra stuff for being in a tunnel I guess". Basically just less consistent subclasses and, if...

I hate digging into single points this deep into a thread, but, this one stuck out at me bad enough I gotta comment on it and hammer on it like a nail. how how in the world does "Being a fan of a fictional character" not make sense? Do you... Not like fictional characters? Didn't read LotR...

Original Dragonborn were a 3.5E thing, but original Dragonborn were.... Weird. As in "You're some other race who's turned into as a platnium dragon-person due to Bahamut devotion and will lose the form if you ever comit an evil act".

The necromantic wizard is a thing in fiction, so its something they should be able to do ingame, probably moreso than the other schools. They study forgotten magics to bring back the dead or break them down, its not dealing with necromantic beings like what a warlock would do. Its always been a...

Thought processes be fun to think about Anywho, I'm going to side with folks saying this isn't the Sorc's fault, but I'm going the other way and will actually put blame to this squarely on the wizard itself being the bad class at saying why it should be the one remaining and shouldn't just be...

The only things I'd recommend removing are things that are so powerful they're must-choose no matter the situation, or things that override another class entirely So, True Polymorph is very much in my firing line for being better than what the more shapeshifting dedicated class, the Druid, can...

And pretty much the first books that came out added in more classes, plus it being a big part of the supplementary stuff at the time. Not necessarily stuff that stayed (Smith didn't last long, the first Dragon Magazine with Witch had, what, 3 different versions of the class?, Acrobat's come and...

I've seen Youtube knock back these only one other time, which was an equally flagrent 'oh they said something bad so its no longer free use' type of deal. So while its not unheard of for Youtube to push back on these, its exceptionally rare

I mean, the D&D cartoon didn't use orcs or anything like that. Bullywugs ended up the go to minions But D&D of those years wasn't aiming for 12 years olds in the slighest. Let's not forget BoVD and BoED which are both incredibly edgy and aiming for audiences over this (ironically having very...

Half-elves have generally always had their various bits and bobs to them to make them stand out between the standard elf and human options so there's been a focus on why they're different to the other options Whereas half-orcs have just been "This is your option to play as orcs" for years, so...

Plus using other classes as a base saddles them with all of the other parts of those other classes. Something Fighter based is going to still have all of the fighter stuff, just with trying to put more on top to hit a certain archetype. The monk archetype is in pop culture enough I don’t see...

You wouldn’t release a car based on purely 50 year old tech in today’s modern environment. It’s gotta keep moving with the expectations of the audience. In this day and age, full orc is expected and half orc would be the neat little bonus, not the other way around like how it’s been in the past...

Based on what I’m seeing on the warlock stuff, I expect they’re going to be back to the drawing board there so should hopefully be a good sign for monks Hopefully

Level limits were dumb and like, the most common homebrew around was ignoring them for a reason But, in the words of Garrosh Hellscream, times change. The orc of today, heck, even Tolkien’s orcs, are as smart as men, and the original playable orcs had a dex penalty, not int. DnD flipflopping...

Counterargument: funny, neat, and its not like its going to be unbalanced numbers wise. Plus, folks complain about rapiers being the be-all end-all weapon, so don't just deny weapons from other characters and just, let them use fun stuff Iconic to the general fantasy brand though. Plus, well...

Nah. Let a halfling barbarian use a big ol' axe for comedy. If people can use any magic, a strong enough halfling barbarian can just, heft a giant axe

Fair enough. I'm pretty stuck to orcs being playable, but, I do come at this from the Warcraft side of things I am down for both being playable mind, but giving the half-orcs their own niche to be seperate would be hard, especially when most mention of half-orcs in 5E has generally been 'use...

I'd argue the problem we run into is D&D hasn't ever done anything to indicate why to keep just half orcs over going full orcs as they don't really do anything with the idea of it. Which falls into that "D&D hasn't really put their own mark on orcs so people just mentally put other orc ideas...

Neanderthal flip-flops into H. sapiens neanderthalensis common enough . Honestly when we get to the stuff that close its not a clear differentiation but more of a fuzzy line. "Species" of course remains a notoriously inconsistent term for where differentiations are as its there's no real...

Competing companies so unlikely. Though in Transformers there was a minicon line that turned into balls we all jokingly called bakugan Though I’m just happy one of my pals was involved in the design of the Beholder