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Because 5e is doing a narrow number of classes that encompass larger archetypes than pathfinder classes. As Fighter includes the concept of military and mercenary outfits as part of its larger archetype, the Warlord fits within its umbrella. And it does very much exist in 5e as Fighter...

I Do like cyberpunk...

You need gold to build a temple? That's silly. Use your own muscles to do it (and, by muscles, I mean spells). Joking aside, If a player wants any of those.... that's a storyhook,not a downtime activity gatekept by an arbitrary number for GP on the character sheet. In my experience...

On the issue of seelie and unseelie courts.... I consider the seldarine and dark seldarine (aka Corelleon and Lolth pantheons) to basically be the embodiment of those courts for the average D&D game. I feel like there's a ton of parallels between Lolth and Queen Mab, as well as C.L. and...

In video games, gold and other currencies functionally serve as an experience track for your gear. This is expected and normal. If you remove that expectation, you need to replace it with something directly relevant to adventuring. IE the game we players came to the table for. If it doesn't...

Here's something to chew on. Avarandor, the Land of Dreams, is the original Feywild, dominating the Chaotic Good position in the Great Wheel cosmology (though it also bears more than a bit of the NG Beastlands as well). Limbo (chaotic neutral) is just the Outer Plane version of the Elemental...

nevermind. I'm out.

And from an OOC perspective. As someone who's played both, they are vastly different from an in character and out of character perspective both. The main astral domains are just... the gods' (plus) homes. You've got three gods chilling on three peaks of Mount Celestia. That's why you go to...

The difference is that Great Wheel has 17 outer planes, each with multiple layers, 18 inner planes, multiple demiplanes. Many of whom overlap. Very cluttered, and many planes rarely used.

The Astral plane (thought) vs the Elemental Planes (materialism) is the y-axis, the Feywild (positive energy) and Shadowfell (negative energy) are the x-axis. The Material Plane is at the center (0, 0).

Because DnD loves its overlap and repeats. The Nine Hells, Limbo, the Inner Plane are effectively three takes on the elemental planes idea. The Feywild is just a combo of the NG and CG planes mixed together. Hades, the plane of Shadow, Ravenloft were all different takes of the same concept...

As someone who's played through Planescape, I've had a character go through Mount Celestia, the Outlands, Pandemonium, Mechanus... we swung by the two of the three Chaotic Good planes - had to use portals to go through one of them into the second to get where we need to. Another game had a...

Okay, question time. Who's actually dealt with the Elemental Planes, like, ever. And how? Across any of the editions. I've never seen anyone really interact with them; even Planescape really didn't deal with them - its always the philosphical Outer Planes. The only time I know it comes up...

Was world axis in forgotten realms? I thought that was unique to Points of Light.

Haven't really read the full thread, but ... Fixing the spell list. The problem isn't spellcasters, or any indivindual spellcasting class, its the spells themselves that are the issue. Eliminating problematic spells (or spells that effectively replace entire other classes) is the first step...

I dislike random stats. Or HP. Been on the end of lucky rolls, unlucky, misaligned stats for concept, cheaters... the good doesn't outweigh the bad imho. Random encounter? The DM needs to prep either way. As a player, don't care. Attack/damage/skill/save rolls are just the game. Wild...

I'm not terribly excited. It's good, solid updates to everything. IIt'll be fun to play. Definitely worth the switch. Looking forwards to see how my favorite classes (hint- it's warlock and the half-casters) shake out. It's not exactly NEW ideas though. It's not inspiring me in new ways. I'm...

I'm not sure doing anime/JRPG settings would really change much. At best, we'd get more species options (Slimefolk, cat/dog/fox/bunny folk, probably a warforged variation, etc) in the core plus Artificer by default. Which I greatly approve of. But most of the setting isn't too far from base dnd.

I'd say yes, but looking at other places... People still troll about the Ranger over on DDB, reddit has a hate-on for Rogue, got at least one discord channel unhappy with druid. I think it's just pick-a-class-to-hate-on.

In 13th age, there are always 13 Archetypes. When one dies, a new one takes up the Mantle. Maybe these are used by people, but when they die, they're scattered. So random chance to find one. And there recently was a huge war, with big bodycount.... Now, why would they want to find the...