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Dollars divided by players. It looked like 2 bucks per player, it's even less. I pay more than that to play one game. How is it a hardship to buy one book a year. D&D would rival Magic with just that bare minimum.

You may just run for a lot of Timmys. They're not rare. They're not all kids. The point is to steal the show. To roll huge crit damage on a kobold and crow over how far negative it went. It doesn't matter how poor his overall success is, as long as he gets the occasional moment. 4e...

It's not even all D&D.

You want a discussion of this class of mechanics. We can't discuss something without knowing what it is. You gave some examples. But nothing else we ask about qualifies. If it was the whole list. As DM just remove them. Run shorter adventures or give clerics more slots to make up for the...

I don't understand. The player making a decision the character could not that changes history. How does that not fall in the metagame. Can you give an example other than HD or the fighter.

How does that not make it worse?

Seriously?

Fighters have always been the most popular. They've always been pretty bad choices. Big numbers, no vesatility. They're Timmy Cards.

I see. You're finding some hypocrisy in holding one franchise to a different standard than another. I haven't seen TLJ. But I think 4e corresponds to the extended universe materials that got cut. The current movies to 5e.

Pelgraines Archmage Engine srd has a fighter that uses maneuvers randomly. Pathfinder CMB is an improvement over skill checks. Fighters are actually good at maneuvers. And you don't need to expend a meta resource or wait for the GM or dice to just hand it to you. Pathfinder 2 changed the...

So playing a sorcerer from level one is fine. But multiclassing to sorcerer later would be an issue. You could just add a requirement that any bloodline be declared at character generation to deal with that.

It had a very anime feel, shouting the name of your style or kata or spell as you attack. The players not the characters obviously. Though I had players do that in 3e, because they just had to do the magical girl thing and spell names got pretty silly. 2e got sillier Leomund's Lamentable...

What is the criteria for plays D&D. Are 15 million people playing D&D 5e on a regular basis. Or have 15 million people ever played any version of D&D. 15 million expect to play D&D in the next twelve months. What about Pathfinder, D&D in all but name. What about D&D games that aren't...

I am still having trouble understanding how this all adds up. If a typical group is a DM and 5 players, and they go through 1 AP a year, shouldn't APs be selling a lot more than 100k. If there are 15 million playing D&D.

There are piles of books at my table and more on shelves.

I was puzzling over your use of metagame. I should have just read more carefully. You can ignore my last few posts. Sorry. I do still think that removing the offending fighter abilities and changing how HD are spent could remove any unwanted player narrative control.

The Truenamer was abysmal. Bad mechanics. Not exactly a caster. You have a good point. I was thinking nerf in the sense of existing casters.

Mike Mearls has already shared his initiative house rules.

So it's when a player makes a decision for the character that is beyond the characters control. For instance taking a level of sorcerer and choosing a bloodline. The character can't decide to acquire a supernatural ancestor. He can't decide that ancestor was a dragon. He can't decide it was...

NPC classes were a nice feature, they were a tool for the DM in adding world details in a sensible way. Players could even use them for builds that reflected a more extensive non-adventuring background.