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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...

First Air Supply were great! Or more accurately their two songs written by Jim Steinmann were great. Second I find Gygax a more challenging case than Lovecraft. Mostly because as I said in the other thread one of the things D&D is is a work of moral philosophy. I believe more people have spent...

I wouldn't. One thing subclass spell lists give is more casting options. If Divine Soul Sorcerers don't get extra spells known then opening a bigger store doesn't do much when they've little money to spend.

Strife in your world = internet storms-in-teacups. (Which you seem eager to continue) Strife in my world = encouraging people to treat peope badly. Whether through normalising sexism and racism, or through completely messing up good, lawful good, and paladins (and encouraging people trying to...

Honestly? No. It's a game but not just a game. D&D is a fandom. Or several fandoms. As we see here. D&D is one of the foundational works of one of the most engaged with forms of art of the past half century; Computer RPGs and Adventure Games from Colossal Cave onwards are at the very least...

One more time than the outright liars try raising him on high and to scream that he wasn't and make fact free complaints or throw mud at those pointing out true things. Ideally the response to the statement "Gygax was sexist" would be "you only just noticed?" But it wasn't. It was "dragged up"...

I have seen historical work that tried to be fair and unbiased. I have never seen any that completely succeeded. The choice of whose stories you tell is inherently political and no one is without bias.

Nor by 1970s Western standards. Jefferson was a slave owner who knew slavery was wrong and wrote against it. Lovecraft was not so much a product of his time as stunningly racist even by the standards of the 1920s. And Gygax was getting called sexist in the 1970s, and still kept it up into the...

That's not a wizard, it's a Tome Warlock. Is Sallie-Mae an Eldritch Horror, a Fiend, or an Archfey?

The 2024 Ranger doesn't need any help with that. If, thanks to no limited use abilities, the 2024 rogue is the weakest class, the ranger is the least thematic or at least has thematics least representative of the class fantasy.

Swords Bard is an apology for Valour being bad just as Hexblade is Pact of the Blade. They weren't going to kick the PHB subclass out or include both. With luck new Valour will be basically Swords. For that matter no PHB subclass was dumped

That's 2024 rules. Under pre-Tasha's rules a sorcerer knew fewer spells than a wizard could prepare at one time. And a big criticism of 5e is the lack of things to spend money on. Wizards are weak at tier 1, strong in tier 2, and OP in tiers 3 and 4 Not actually true for 2014 Evokers who can...

We have only seen player side material. But an obvious change is that fighters and barbarians used to be supernumeraries out of combat and about as able to contribute as wizards, clerics, or sorcerers who (a) had a poor stat selection (Str/Con is not good) and (b) were standing in an anti-magoc...

D&D is of course the game where housecats used to have a good chance against L1 wizards

And when you say "from a flavour point of view" I read "because PF2e doesn't like creativity from players and wants to hard code a St Bernard to use the same rules as a chihuaha".