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I remember chatting with Andy (Collins) about this around the time 4e was released, when he related the dev team's view that Chaos is inherently evil because it puts the needs of the individual above the community whereas Law is inherently good for prioritizing the community. From that point of...

Our group agrees that creativity and RP are important but disagrees with your judgment that the inspiration mechanic is a good way to foster them. If players are role-playing already then they do not need mechanical benefits like inspiration to cheer them on, whereas if they're not interested...

Yes, I think you can count on that. They've produced new editions before to show their commitment to certain cultural values (2e comes to mind) and there's no reason why they couldn't do that again. However I do think the debate over whether 6e is "needed" misses the mark. Yes, the 5e core...

At least you are acknowledging this for what it is, a tax you are imposing on players because you personally disagree with the choices they are making at character creation. I still think the place to start is a discussion with your players, though. If you're going to "raise taxes" until they...

Rather than focusing on whether this particular house-rule is a good idea, I'd recommend speaking frankly to your players about the broader issue of why you think your opinions about PC character classes should matter in the first place. If your reasons are sound, for example because a warlock...

I can understand why a non-caster would love being able to neutralize power sources to which she lacks access. What I don't see is why that is a viable or desirable class to create. If magic is prevalent throughout the campaign, then the class is very likely to be OP and will also make other...

If the player is not trying to min-max by using the spell as a substitute for arcana/nature/etc, then you might consider a spell along the lines of 3e's find traps and letting her add half her caster level to the roll. Or if the player is trying to min-max by using the spell as a substitute for...

The Kingmaker CRPG handles this issue pretty well. Each time you encounter a monster, you make a check against the appropriate skill (such as nature lore if the monster is an animal) which then if successful reveals some information about the creature. Then you make a second check upon...

Makes sense that people who broke away from 3e because of 4e would consider breaking away from Pathfinder now that PF2e incorporates elements of 4e. My question is whether those who are dissatisfied with PF2e would be better-served just moving to 5e (not sure of the answer, just asking the...

If your players have a lot of money and not much to spend it on, then either they are not being creative enough in how to use their funds or you are not being creative enough in how they can use them (or possibly both). Is it important that you limit player downtime during this adventure or is...

I think you hit the nail on the head here even more than you may realize. The problem with moon druid is not that nearly everyone picks it, which they do, or even that it is OP, which is debatable, but that the moon druid's strong design exposes the lackluster base-class druid chassis for what...

I don't care for 4e all that much and apologize if that came through a bit. But I would say its devs did a great job implementing their vision for a simpler, less history-dependent, more battlemat-oriented, and more-friendly-to-new-players edition of the game. I can easily see people who like...

I wouldn't say it's "impossible" but you do have to design classes with multiclassing in mind and you specifically have to make sure you don't overly front-load their benefits. 5e does a somewhat better job with this than 3e, though admittedly that isn't a super-high bar to exceed. :)

Paizo asked a dev who worked extensively on 4th edition D&D to help design 2nd edition Pathfinder and liked his contributions so much they put him in overall charge of the edition. PF2e is much better about "protecting players from themselves" in much the same way 4th edition D&D did, for...

I disagree completely on pretty much all counts and actually haven't previously heard the claim that 5e's bard and druid are among the edition's "best designed" classes. But I'm glad you find them useful.

Druids haven't always been among the game's least popular classes but they are in 5th edition D&D. That provides pretty conclusive evidence that the 5e druid is hobbled more by poor design than an inherently unpopular concept, though I'm glad you personally find it to be better than most people...

First priority in my view is to perform major surgery on the druid and sorcerer, which char-gen sites and D&D Beyond consistently show to be the game's least popular classes. Makes no difference to me whether WotC officially eliminates the original versions, just as it didn't matter to me...

I'm very puzzled as to why there would need to be rules, or even a roll, for this. If a player wants their character to role-play a heretofore-unknown aspect of their history that gives them interesting role-playing opportunities without impacting their combat power, who cares? D&D novels do...

Well, what we know for sure is that sorcerers are much less popular than wizards around the gaming table despite sorcerer spells coming exclusively from the wizard spell list. D&D Beyond pegs sorcerers as the game's second least popular class based on data from tens of thousands of players and...

These seven points do a nice job summarizing the range of objections people have to 5e's sorcerer. I also love the creativity behind your proposed solutions. The problem is that #3-#7 represent a potentially sizable power boost which is the wrong way to go if sorcerers are correctly powered...