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The redesign should definitely include some kind of Expertise, I think, given that's our "Expert Mechanic" in 2024. Maybe they have Expertise in tools? I do think the Ranger is a good point of comparison, since they're also a half-caster Expert. And this comparison drives home how important an...

I'm not really whiteboxing ideal conditions to maximize effectiveness and see who is the best at bonus action healing, I'm just seeing if bonus action healing for a cleric and an artificer are reasonably close. Looks like they are. Having a more effective turn with Mass Healing Word or the life...

Hell, Artificers are more than capable of going into melee, no reason this character couldn't have done greataxes or greatswords if they wanted to.

Hmmm...if I'm a level 5 cleric doing my best to use bonus actions for healing, I'm casting mass healing word and then healing word. So basically 4x (2d4 + Wis) (assuming we cure two people with mass healing word) for healing. So 20 base, plus 4x Wis. Let's say +4 wis, so another 16, total of 36...

This mostly tracks. Not sure how they were getting d12's with the heavy crossbow, but even dropping that to d10's, an Extra Attack and a bonus action to make the pet attack and clever use of spells, I buy it. When I talk about Artificers rewarding system mastery, this is the kind of thing I...

As a Cleric, you should be spending your action casting your highest-level spells. As an Alchemist in this playtest, you should be spending your action casting your damaging cantrip, and then your Bonus Action to heal or buff. So you're probably doing a worse job buffing than the cleric, but...

I mean, neat, but not really necessary. The difference between "a bomb of acid you can throw" and "I cast acid splash" is pretty academic. The alchemist I played was flavored as "bronze age doctor at the beginnings of medicine" and I could easily fluff most spells I cast into using some weird...

The Alchemist version of extra attack is Alchemical Savant. The unstated design intent: Alchemists use cantrips as their main damage source, so we're going to power up the cantrips we want them to use - acid splash, fire bolt, or poison spray, This feature keeps these cantrips competitive as...

What would be kind of cool is a mechanics update (races, dragonmarks, artificer) plus an anthology of adventures a la Radiant Citadel or similar - something that goes beyond just the setting and gives us a bunch of things to DO in the setting.

I was pretty happy with the Alchemist I played, but let's see what they'd do differently... Pro Fond of the new magical tinkering. Kind of like the idea of an alchemist character carrying around "bottled lamp." Delivering Elixirs as a bonus action is huge. In line with some of the other...

I've played a bit in this setting! And yeah, the idealism left me a bit out of sorts. I was a tough warrior type (a head hunter, trying out some of the novel archetypes) and was...not suited for most of what went on in terms of conflict (which mostly had to do with an unhappy spirit who needed...

The conceit I'm working with is, "The cosmos works like what Muscular Neutrality says it works like - that if Good or Evil get 'too much' power, the balance tips, and the setting ends somehow. The only way to preserve the setting is to keep the balance." And then asking, "How can one still be...

It's solid. I'd definitely play it. There's one big consideration I'd have as WotC, though. How prepared are we for accusations of exploiting suffering for gain? There's this trope where fiction shows people suffering the kinds of violence that minority communities suffer - things like SA or...

Well, not really necessary for this thought experiment. It's Nirvana-esque, but not literally the same thing. The real world that Buddhism developed to address is not a fantasy world of provably true Muscular Neutrality - it's definitely NOT the same thing. Nothing falls apart if there's not a...

I didn't think it was necessary to reprint the quote. Also, it still doesn't look like what you're seeing there. There's no "zero tolerance." Just an admission that it's tough to be true to the source material and also meet ethical and inclusion standards. That's not censorship. It's not the...

1 - Animals and plants are part of samsara, too. They're as capable of nirvana as anything else. A transient existence isn't just transient for humans. 2 - Good in our scenario doesn't force, either. Can't force bliss, after all. It influences, it advises, it helps this process along. It says...

What difference do you see between everyone leaving the world behind permanently and the end of all life? Because I'm not sure I see much of a true difference. If the premise is that gym bro neutrals are valid, that it is true and right and honest and an understanding of how this fantasy...

One of the things that doesn't seem to be stated clearly here is that Good (in a multiverse where Muscular Neutrality is Actually True) needn't be invested in the continuation of life in order to respect and value it. It's Nirvana. It's the Rapture. It's the end of the world as we know it, and...

Having ethical and inclusion standards that make it difficult to publish previous content isn't censorship. It's voluntary change. "The company isn't who I want them to be anymore" isn't the same as "The company isn't allowed to make what it wants to anymore."

One possible direction to take it is that there is no better universe, and that the only way to prevent suffering is to destroy all creatures who feel it. Not without their consent. Not by force. But, as the creature feels suffering, you give them the option: to not be, anymore. A choice they...