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Yes. Do it in any form (pdf, compendium of smaller region books, PoD, etc.) I don't care, just do it. And novels. Since most of the NPCs are dead, plots are obsolete and other countless things changed since 3E during 4e and THEN the Sundering made those obsolete, for me the "there's the older...

Yeah, I agree. That's basically the case with the 5e gishes. A full class could build from the get-go toward a specific theme, role, or style. A subclass simply can't do that much, because it's just adding some quirks to the mother class. As a sidenote: call me a heretic, but seeing how PF...

To some extent, yes (and that's why my favorite games are classless, although I'm okay with class-based ones), but I think there are tiers of how unique certain concepts are and thus needing their own class. Going back to the PF example, the classes in the ACG are not necessary. some would even...

Basically this. FR, as the largest setting incorporated things from the other ones by osmosis for a long time. But blatantly stealing those other setting's most iconic things and rewriting them and shoehorning them into FR? That's too blatant for me. D&D was a multiverse, now D&D=FR and...

Oh, please, stealing iconic things from the settings and butchering them up (including FR!)... Forgive me if I won't pop a champagne over it. I don't say it isn't make sense as a business move, but I'm still not an employee of WotC and still don't like what they do with great things from the...

I'd like to see different kind of psions, because a fighter-psion is very different from a caster-psion. I think some kind of "divine sorcerer" would be a legit niche, like the favored soul/oracle. Also an alchemist class.

Agree, the warlock and especially the bladelock is the closest. Also agree, divine classes don't count, because, well, different features and spell lists. EK is pretty close to the duskblade in concept IMO, but some of the signature abilities come in only at late levels and it's even more...

I'm still on the opinion that 5e so far lacks any true dedicated hybrid gish classes. It has nothing like the magus, duskblade (EK is most close to that but only at high levels), spellsword, swordmage, beguiler (IMO arcane trickster is a watered-down version), etc. Most gish builds in 5e are...

The notion of having more things=more complex always baffled me. 3e/PF isn't more complex because it has more skills, they are more complex, because the math is more complex and there is more moving parts. CoC and WoD/other WW/OP games both build on the "you have x dots/percentage on skills"...

Great post, mirrors perfectly my feelings in the PF/5e contest. 5e is fun, it is easy, a good game and a good beginner game. 3e/PF just offers more options, customization and more simulationism. I like classes like the magus, the alchemist, cavalier, gunslinger, oracle, even most of the classes...

This, so much. Thanks! I might add that being non-canonical comes with a lot of other baggage, when fiction, setting and game/rules are intertwined. I understand how D&D is a big box of lego for a lot of people. Creating stuff is fun, I enjoy it. It's just I also enjoy some thematic lego sets...

My posts second part answers to your answer, I think. :)

I'd like that. Loved the Sellswords series. Entreri, Jarlaxle and some of the newer characters are just more interesting to me, than Drizzt and co. were lately. Partly because after so much books, it's hard to do anything new with those chars. Partly because I just like antiheroes and shameless...

I think the big problem with both poll is the oversimplification of the question. I prefer official material, for any game, because i trust a companies and game designers to know how to make stuff for their game little bit more than someone on the DMsG, or any website. If it doesn't exist...

Lol. Look at how's the Magus in comparison to a fighter/wizard and you'll get the answer. The Magus is a true hybrid class with abilities that strengthen that unique flavor. The Fighter/Wizard is two classes which abilities don't sync. The closest would be EK/wizard, but the problem is most of...

You can't buy their 5e hardcovers from it you could from amazon and those ratings are what's coming up every time. You're stressing something I'm not arguing with. 5e makes bigger sales than PF and have bigger recognition. I didn't said otherwise, like never.

Ok, let's repeat my post's second part, because it apparently got lost somehow: And what about system updates, new material, even the dreaded metaplot, because some people like living, evolving settings? DMsG material is ok, but it's old. Old as layout, old as artworks (although I like a lot...

I won't say bladesinger is bad, because it's not, but my 2 cents: There isn't any real fighter/mage hybrid class in 5e so far. Bladesinger is a wizard with some melee capabilities, but it doesn't deliver what the fluff says. I'm still waiting for a real "swordmage" class, like the Magus in...

I have a very simple rule for that: conversing with the GM before/after making the character and leveling up. I expect the same from my players when GMing. My opinion is that the 3e/PF system is pretty modular. A couple of feats and/or spells per character, or an archetype is not so much a...

I just want to reflect on the template thing: since they did templates in the MM, I just can't understand why other things, like vampire, lycanthrope, lich, ghost, etc. are not templates. One thing I liked about the earlier monster design is the templates it made things easier and more...