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Crawford was talking in the videos about 70% or even 90% scores. I would be very surprised if that was 90% 5s

One question about power levels is at which tier? I'm going to suggest the following things are all true: At tier 1 the Sorcerer is the weakest class in the game; they just don't have the spell slots to do that much that often. (The wizard is way stronger at tier 1 because of their abilities...

Crawford didn't talk about averages or 5s, he talked about percentage who rated it positively. I'm guessing that positive meant 4 or 5 and they didn't much care which. This is all reading tealeaves. Or you took the position that a bad plan executed well is better than a good plan executed...

This is no longer clear. It was certainly true for 2014 sorcerers with two spells per spell level and no ritual ability at all. For 2024 sorcerers with three spells per level plus two per spell level from their subclass (and all casters being ritualists) it might be a lot more practical...

That's because they took a half-assed approach and made it a generic half-caster. If they'd e.g. retained pact magic but given you a minute long ritual you could use proficiency times per day to recover a pact slot it would have done way better. A big part of the point of the warlock is being...

Most people using GWM on the other hand use it because on a lot of builds it is genuinely good. GWM, by increasing the damage per attack, multiplies the effect of any accuracy buff the character has. On a stock fighter, for example, GWM is mid. So don't take it. On a barbarian you get advantage...

Or you get Alarm when you want to surveil an area without being there. Like looking for a gang of thieves. Or various other purposes. Then to check if it's a false alarm you send your familiar to check. If you're not doing things like this no wonder you have problems seeing the worth of a...

That's because they'd still have some left over... And this is why I propose wizard as a subclass of sorcerer. The books and rituals subclass. What makes the class is having the best spell list in the game; I don't think many doubt that a level 9+ wizard is under 2014 rules the strongest class...

The wizard doesn't need "all the ritual spells". If they are using standard loadouts, as you suggest, then that means that they have a number of spells in their book that they don't have space to prep. Which you fill with rituals. And like anything there are diminishing returns with the first...

Didn't getting aged by a year force a system shock survival roll?

It's basically what they are calling it. 5e Revised. I think all the changes that made it through playtesting are good ones and the classes are better versions of the 5e base classes with the arguable exception of the smite spamming paladin (especially the spear and shield PAM variant) It's...

My only disagreement here is how many of them aren't sorcerers but warlocks with Jean being a GOOlock (and The Phoenix Force a GOO) and Cyclops being an Eldritch Blast spammer. Both of them with some At Will stuff that goes way beyond a cantrip and Pact Magic to go above and beyond their high...

There was no mistake. The sorcerer was deliberately added to 3.0 to justify the wizard getting so many spells in the PHB. However 4e and 5e, in part thanks to subclasses being baked in and not being weighed down by legacy, have managed to turn the sorcerer into far the more interesting and...

Twin either needed to die or the other metamagic needed huge buffs. It was way too strong - which was fine on an otherwise weak class that did almost everything worse than the wizard. But the new version is otherwise much better.

But clearly the OP isn't doing that. They're lazily restricting things to the PHB with all 12 classes showing up, not e.g. banning full spellcasting classes.

I might (so not saying no) but this is a very hard sell. Strike 1 is the character restrictions. This isn't a deal-breaker but is bad. You're showing up with old and bad versions of many of the classes and in the process gratuitously nerfing the fighter, and forcing the ranger into the bad...

Likewise. I think a cause of confusion is that there are a couple of themes many won't use like sexual violence. And e.g. it would mess up a game to drop spiders on the character of a player too scared of them. But I think slavers are more popular than they used to be as bad guys. They are...

That's what an Arcane Focus is for? I think the only characters in 5e I've ever seen use components rather than foci have been wizards (including one Tomelock who was a wizard who had Delved Too Deep into Forbidden Lore)

My genie pact warlock with the patron "But da-ad" objects! She's the nepo baby!

I'd agree. Memetic Cthulhu is far more like Call of Cthulhu the RPG than it is Lovecraft's sank-after-hit-by-a-fishing-boat Cthulhu. And this is a reflection of the outsized influence RPGs that have you spend a long time exploring their setting wield. Simple. When someone is an influential...