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I think we both agree on the cause, but not the cure. Wizard and Fighter are designed to be a catch all because when they conceived of as fighting-man and magic-user, they were supposed to fill all those different archetypes equally. The fighting man was a bandit, knight, ranger, barbarian...

Whereas I think the wizard is basically SPELLBOOK: THE CLASS. If anything, the wizard should be a subclass of sorcerer who gets a spellbook that they can use to swap out their spells known from. But inertia will keep Spellbook as a base class (it's one of the Core Four). So thus I will keep...

The issue (like with so many D&D classes) is that the sorcerer is three archetypes in a trench coat fighting to see which one is going to be the top. You have the Innate Caster, the wizard-without-a-spellbook character. You have the Spell Shaper, the character whose brimming with power and can...

That's an interesting take. I think it would work best as either a martial or a half-caster gish (like a paladin) who picks up monster abilities. Subclasses for different types of monster could influence the amount you lean into each part (draconic for magical, giantish for tanky, celestial for...

Absolutely agree. But Im not sold it would be as good a class as it looks on paper. There are three primary modes of class design: martial, caster, and gish. In general terms, most classes pick one mode and that is their loop. A caster or martial can become a gish (valor bard, ek) and a gish...

When that sorcerer came out, I was not a big fan of it's design AS THE SORCERER. I felt it was too narrow. You have to start out a caster and become a melee monster as you expend resources. That means every sorcerer starts a mage and ends a fighter. If you wanted to turn into a dragon* earlier...

It absolutely is. The three core books are the biggest books the make and they are still $50.00. All the supplement books from last year (Phandelver, Vecna, etc) were 60 for less pages. Forge of the Artificer is $30 ($20 digital) and only 192 pages. They intentionally underpriced the holy...

The difference is that $30 is going straight to WotC's pocket. (It's also a leader loss). That $15 is being split with MHP. They are getting $10 (the same as selling the PDF) and WotC is only getting $5. If they sold it any cheaper, WotC would get nothing OR Mage Hand would be selling at a loss.

Lamordia, Mordent, Kartakass and Har'Akir would be perfect deep dive material. Classic monster settings (Frankenstein, ghosts, werewolves, mummy). Darkon could get a whole book to itself it's so big!

If you want a little more tie in, [/ISPOILER]

From your lips to Strahd's ears.

The PDF on their site is $10 ($9 on sale right now). You're paying $10 to Mage Hand and an additional $5 for D&D Beyond integration. If you are already invested in DD&B, that's a decent enough upcharge for it being in the builder.

Does it work just fine with Renaissance only weapons? I have a player interested in playing a gunslinger in Eberron (see the thread here) and I don't intend to make firearms a big part of the setting.

Which was basically my point.

Well the timing on this is ubiquitous...

Yes. Crunchier like Pathfinder is crunchier. I wasn't disputing that it's still 5e, but it's 5e for people who want 5e to feel more Pathfinder-y.

My Uninformed opinion is that pick the one you feel will best support what you want to run. 2014 is a known quantity and if you plan on running modules, it's more than adequate. Level Up is good if you want a crunchy Pathfinder-y feel to 5e and don't mind doing a lot of prep work to convert and...

Tale as old as time unfortunately. I mean, WotC, Paizo, and KP have the largest potential pool of playtesters possible and sometimes they get it wrong, I can't imagine how smaller publishers with lofty goals do it!

Yeah. Sorry. Thanks for the offer.

I can ask if he's interested. Wouldn't be starting the game until August though.