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In any world where there are locks, there are people who lose their keys, so there are legitimate locksmiths who will need to open those locks. I would set laws so that any criminal's punishment could be enhanced if he was carrying lockpicks, but carrying them while breaking no law shouldn't be...

Casting half as many spells doesn't mean anything when you're casting different spells. 3 oranges isn't half of 6 apples. But, even if you disagree that the Eldritch Knight is the only half-caster, can't we agree it's a half-caster? And prominently featured right there in the main PHB?

As I said above, in my opinion, the ONLY half caster in the game right now is an Arcane Fighter/Wizard: the Eldritch Knight.

Was not aware of the jargon thing. In older editions, this was accomplished either by delaying when you get spells, reducing how fast you gained access, and by making you level up slower. Now that modern editions standardize level gain, and pushing off certain abilities to high level is out of...

I think bard and artificer are way more than "half" casters, even going back to their origins. It's hard to say what a "half caster" is now, since many of the classes that used to acquire spellcasting only at high levels get their spells much sooner.

In the games 50 (47?) year history it HAS had arcane half-casters. The Paramander is one example.

That's not exactly a hard decision. It takes only a few minutes more than the setup that already happens such as "do you want to use any house rules" or "what sort of campaign do we want to play"? I think to some degree it's easier for people who've played the previous Plus games. People...

Wizards gets most of the price of the digital books, and at least a piece of the subscription fees https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/general-discussion/74070-where-does-the-d-d-beyond-subscription-money-go

Depends why they don't want to bother with it. I agree most GMs don't want to bother with it. I'm confident that if the system made it easy for them to do so, they might consider taking advantage. Do we even know what D&D Beyond's revenue is? I asked previously, how/what does one pay for it...

MCDM talked about how early D&D was designed to simulate a very specific kind of story, and that made a lot of stuff click for me about how different editions were meant to play and feel, and why some of our 2e campaigns just died in the transition to 3e. I 100% agree with the "new campaign...

And, fair enough, "tweaking stats" was your example but I ran with it, so that's probably why it seemed like it began and ended with simple stat tweaks.

Means exactly what it says. "More" "amenable". But, are you honestly telling me you've never seen a fan made spell, class feature, magic item or monster in an RPG that was far too weak, far too powerful, or had rules that didn't interact with other game mechanics, or that attempted to...

And Cortex Prime is just the system that's most amenable to that kind of tweaking. Far more than 5e, at least.

If someone's designing a game from scratch, they don't need Cortex Prime or D&D. They're starting from scratch. The GM tweaking the monsters stats is far more likely to need the system to be amenable to that kind of tweaking, and far more likely to appreciate working in a game like Cortex than...

Agree. "Game design" tools are basically just GM tools. Targeting game designers is really the same thing as targeting GMs. While GMs are a niche-within-a-niche compared to gamers, you can't really push a platform that works for players but not for GMs, as there's nothing to play without the GM.

TBH i don't even know how DDB is monetized. Is there a subscription fee? I see you can buy rules, but Fandom probably only sees a very small percentage of that. If you look at Fandom's portfolio before D&D Beyond, i think it's unlikely they wanted to "own" D&D Beyond, and more likely they...

Cortex Prime is a HUGE get for Fandom. If you look at how Cortex Prime works, creating a new licensed rpg is almost as simple as slapping die-rating badges on existing articles.

Cortex Prime was kickstarted by Cam Banks. They didn't get involved until after the successful Kickstarter.

They probably pay a hefty licensing fee for that golden goose. A silver goose where they get to keep all of the profit might be better for them.

My first guess was that Fandom wants to push its own Cortex Prime vtt and isn't interested in D&D Beyond any longer.