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This sound like a great setting for a Wargame, video game or a boardgame or one of each. I get that you loved it but nothing you have said would attract me to play or run a D&D campaign in it. On the other hand, a diplomacy/wargame in that setting could be lot of fun.

About Birthright, could someone explain the why of this? All I have ever heard about it is the domain management and that the players are rulers. But I do not understand why one needs a setting for this. If the game is primary about running a kingdom, then would not a 4x or a wargame be more...

Not sure it is enough, would love to playtest it. I might get a chance. I think the Bladesinger needs something to encourage tanking, maybe a reliable source of temp hp, if there is a hard restriction like this. Again I think that spells like Booming Blade are needed to get the Bladesinger...

Pretty much this. Will usually to reread the rules soon after the first game to see what we got wrong. It can take a couple of integrations to get the game right.

Voted that "its complicated.." I do not believe that public playtest are of much benefit in designing a game. I strongly suspect that most responders have not had a chance to actually do any playtesting and even those that do, might only manage a session or two. Not enough time to really stress...

Ok, I get what you are saying but I would prefer not to force a choice between the mechanical advantages feats provide and something that is more character flavour or ribbon. I would prefer feats to lean into the class identity or provide breath or utility to the class choices and something...

Are they? A boon is essentially a wonderous items not attached to an item but directly to the character. Feat slots are rare and valuable and compete with a full A.S.I. it would strike me that boons are an excellent mechanic to enable character abilities that reflect the ongoing thread of the...

Perhaps not a feat but a boon. Something the DM can give and drift the character to recovering their feyness.

I voted "Limited time and resistance to change" but the real reason is we are old. At least for the primary group. We have mostly played D&D in recent decades but back in the day we tried a lot of other. Now there is resistance to learning new rules. If 2024 D&D was not addons to the base of...

Again, as I believe I have said before it depends on one's assumptions about magic. It one believes that in a universe with magic, that magic is then part of the natural order then science should provide information about magic otherwise not.

It reminds me of the time I locked my nephew out from accepting friends requests on xbox. He played a lot at my house when younger and his dad told be to use parental controls and my account as the parent unit. Roll forward a number of years and the kid is now nearly adult but not quite 18 and...

It needs repeating, keep recovery email addresses up to date. What you did will lock you out of any site, since you de-credentialed your login address.

While I will admit to a small curiosity as to what @Reynard, whenever that decision is made. I find I have no appetite for another go-around on the OGL and its merits as to CC

If you do not want to give WoTC your money as a point of principle to yourself then do not give them money. If it is to change their behaviour, in my opinion, you are treating a corporation as a person and that cannot ever work. Corporations (and other large human collectives) only remember...

Oh! i think it will, at the end of the day they want to know "Will this sell" the older structure was for a similar purpose but almost certainly needed more work to parse. It probably gave them a good base line to design the new survey with is much more explicit as to its aims. A lot of people...

There is some of that but there also seems to be assumptions made about the purpose of the survey. There are those that assuem the purpose is evil and then there are those that believe that the survey designers are incompetent. One gets a lot of "This survey is badly designed, how could they...

It has always been that way they have just gotten more scientific about it. What is the problem do you not like buying things you like? Seriously though, If you like it why does it matter? and if yuo do not like, don't buy it and it does not matter either.

This is not (and I do not believe the UA process ever was) about crowd sourcing design. It is about marketing. Is this marketable, that is would it be accepted in the market. Green = Yes, Red = No and Yellow, we will iterate on that. The particulars of why we like or dislike a thing is...

I have run Uni and the Hunt for the Last Horn twice and I reckon is it runnable in about 4 hours. I have run it using D&DBeyond and pregenerated characters to get a feel for the rules.

One; You do not have to respond to every challenge to your opinion or if the response makes no difference, then you do not have to keep responding. If one is offering an opinion in response to another's opinion, then one should expect to be challenged. If you do not want to respond to that...