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Convenience is King, and Project Sigil never gave off an air of convenience. It always seemed like whale-bait at best to me - maybe a place for dedicated hobbyists to do some neat stuff, but never something your average D&D player would spend hours in. Seems like WotC is learning that lesson now.

There's a bit of fundamental confusion about D&D that is something of a result of its popularity. Is it a game primarily about fighting monsters cinematically? If so, and combat is tedious, it needs some more game-system juice. Things like the escalation die, or big, dramatic things that swing...

Sigil.

Can't wait to see what an LLM entirely trained on House of Leaves spits out...

"we give ourselves aneurisms" isn't exactly a fair understanding of what people who don't like this are doing, is it? "Don't talk about it here on the D&D discussion site, tell them directly instead" is a pretty weird thing to tell someone on this D&D discussion site. Sorry, was I telling...

IMXP, AI solves the problem of not attracting enough investor attention, since a lot of investors are aggressively in favor of it (mostly because of the supposed labor cost savings). Long term, I don't think that's a good strategy for D&D, because the value of a D&D product for me is...

WotC asked for feedback. It's not INTERNET RAGE to give them that feedback. This is literally a question WotC has provoked, intentionally, to see if something works. Telling them it doesn't work like that is valid, useful, and, indeed, part of what we should be doing as a community. If...

I think this would be a fine fiction, especially when you hit Tier 4 and are legit a hero of legend anyway.

That's exactly the thing this design is meant to address! Legendary swords of valor as guaranteed class power!

(snilk)

Items in fantasy fiction are often part of a character. Hell, it's trite enough that kid's shows featuring powerful characters will often have an episode that is explicitly "I'm heroic because of how I use my powers, I'm special because of who I am, and my magic rainbow wand or sword of destiny...

It's just not a good design, and not a great piece of art. Cartoony, not very threatening, kind of mindless. Even the weapons read as kind of...bland. It's OK, and I like that it's shown doing its thing, and I dig the beheading, and being chaotic and hard to read is kind of on brand for a...

Is ranged area damage something that Fighters struggle with that needs to be addressed? I thought Fighters were pretty OK when it came to combat performance relative to mages, right? Cuz the thing I'm hearing is that the martial/caster divide is more about the high-level wahoo stuff that...

This design's premise is that, at least at high levels, we are going to embrace magic. That D&D is a game about magical characters doing magical things with magic, and that if you want a grittier game with lower stakes and more grounded kinds of fantasy, you're going to want to fit that in about...

Yeah, this is the idea! There needs to be some kind of excuse for why others can't wield it, but that's not much of a hurdle. This is ~kind of~ the intent behind some very old D&D design (why fighters get so many weapon/armor proficiencies is, in part, because the "best" magic items are things...

Nah, this kind of Fighter never casts spells. But, their capabilities are not limited by what a "normal person" could do, because they have the skill and superhuman ability to wield items that can shape the multiverse. Because the difference between a Fighter and a Wizard isn't about combat...

This isn't a dealbreaker, it's just a requirement of the design. Like, we have spells that only work for people who know how to use them. Maybe the sword that cuts through dimensions also only works for people who know how to use it. Weapon masteries are already a step in this direction (if a...

Angel Summoner / BMX Bandit. The power to swing a sword REAL GOOD will never really be equal to the power of being able to literally make your wish come true once a day. Training doesn't let you transcend dimensions. I always wonder what would've happened if magic items followed the same arc...

Sure. Fly speed of 10 feet, so pretty slow regardless. Stealth rules being the ambiguous mess they are, this is somewhat up to DM judgement, but I wouldn't give any extra advantage that being invisible and being a cloud don't already confer. I could probably be talked into Advantage if the...

I'm pretty critical of "damage-on-a-miss," but I kind of like this as a narrative. Yes, correct. The greatsword does not miss. A character with a weapon mastery is a very skilled user of that weapon. Like, top-tier, even at 1st level. And the greatsword is a big sheet of sharp metal. I am 100%...