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Can't say I'm keen on 13A but that might be the DM when I played it (no, the Gold Dragon isn't a bath plug - and having icons drop in multiple times a session in person to let the DM thesp badly gets tedious fast). But I find none of the martials either simple or engaging (the fighter in...

The place I'd start fixing 3.0 is by reverting to 2e saving throws. Or failing that adding half of everyone's level to saving throws and giving the fighter three good saves and the rogue and barbarian two. Damage and buff spells should be SOP, save or sucks hail maries

Battle Smiths are the only fully functional artificers, but that still makes them part of overall the weakest class in the game (and they were already the weakest caster before 2024). Buffs are necessary but they should belong to the base class. I disagree. I think first of all artificers need...

At level 1-2 an artificer is almost a strict improvement over a wizard. Better hp, much better AC, better skills, almost as many spells.

NeoTrad in particular is almost never pure and Trad rarely is, and this is a strength of both - while the mechanical focus is different. (There's a lot of OSR mechanically in 2e). And that's why I mentioned routinely using the mechanics; 5e has the flaws, ideals, and bonds (and whatever the...

Hero I consider like GURPS - a toolkit with both Trad and NeoTrad tools but some assembly required.

To me any Trad game can be run as NeoTrad and vise-versa, but the difference in terms of games boils down to one single question: "Does the game routinely use mechanics that reflect intangible or social qualities about the character? Mechanics such as social status, reputation, allies...

And this happens too in NeoTrad campaigns. My last campaign was as NeoTrad as it gets; I started by asking each player to name a threat, rival, or quest for their PC. This gave me six solid NPC groups ... two of which were at war, a third playing power behind the throne, and a fourth treating...

It's a reverse of the focus; the difference is there but which one is being presented as important or desirable is different. And you can 100% make a Trad character who drifted in and is unlinked to the setting in a NeoTrad campaign. For that matter if you want to you can make a Trad character...

Again this depends on whether you are talking at character creation or at run time. Taking my current wizard's planned level 4 into account: They will have 7 prepared spells out of fourteen in their spell book (and their only combat cantrip is True Strike) Their seven non-prepared spells will...

Not that I'm aware of - which is a huge pity. I mean the at will invocations for Silent Image, Disguise Self, Jump, and Magical Force Field (False Life) are all both very easy to use and very much character defining for several levels. Likewise ... when I don't start at level 0

YMMV especially under 2024 rules. I mean I see how you can get there if you've made poor choices in invocations (Agonizing Blast plus ones that didn't make it to 2024; there are a lot of bad invocations in the 2014 PHB with over a quarter of them just being dumped), and you keep the incredibly...

Minor objection but only a minor one: once you take subclasses into account the wizard is actually at the low end of spells prepared unless they've been getting spellbooks as loot. This is especially true under the 2024 rules where all cleric subclasses, all warlock subclasses, and 3/4 of...

There are two different answers based on whether you're looking at at creation/level up or in play. At creation it's probably the cleric. You cast spells and if you don't know what to do you heal or hit people. And it's basically it's impossible to mess up making a cleric unless you dump...

You can check polish and care for quality. There are some significant examples where in the 2014 PHB there was a lack of care and attention paid to actually doing what they were trying to with the class. The 2014 Beastmaster Ranger is, oddly enough, not an example of this; instead it's an...

I'd disagree. I think the differentiation is do you make the player character part of the world or do you make them separate from the world as if they could have just been Isikai'd in from another world.

I'm of the opinion that there are only two basic mistakes DMs make. Making the game all about them and what they want rather than the group Being unwilling or unable to move things forward and have consequences

Any party with a L9 (or worse L11) fighter has a significant number of push effects, and a party with a barbarian nearly as many.

Basically they broke almost all the zones. Any zone that procs both on the caster's turn and the victim's should be considered broken.

You ... do know magic isn't real, right? I don't see why a dance bard deserves to be worse than a wizard or we can't have unrealistic fantasies working out in D&D