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Perhaps it would. But I think that modern D&D has a pretty good balance of simplicity and complexity. It appears to be accepted by the largest audience, and there is a healthy middle-ground of people who explore growing it into their preferred complexity by adding their own changes, or changes...

I've liked the idea of the Seeker becoming a subclass for some time. If the Seeking ability is to be used only when you miss someone, it should likely use a Reaction, so it doesn't mess with the many Bonus Actions that a Ranger has access to (like Hunter's Mark). It is also really more akin to...

Agreed. Accessibility is an intrinsic value for civilized society that encourages for the allowance for all people, of all backgrounds, including people who have different kinds or levels of intelligence or other accessibility challenges. For the people who say "The rules should only be...

Why force the design of being tough to be limited to only be available via a single feat choice? Its fine to have more than one vector to increase HP. Also, the game has "fortitude"-style saves tied to Con. It would be weird for Strength to define that value. We'd have to start changing ability...

Think about encapsulating your enemy in a bubble of thunderous energy. The bubble isn't so much a barrier, more of a trigger that pops if they try to move out of it. When they pop it, they take thunder damage. As long as they don't move out of the bubble, (or "square" on a battlemat), it will...

I think the updated Core PH should have the spells necessary to fulfill the existing class/subclass fantasies. There are a lot of melee spellcasters, so there should be a decent variety of such spells to enable those builds. Here are what I feel are good parameters: If a previously printed...

Jack Black and Kyle Gass in Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny. Star Lord Kung Fu Hustle haas Stephen Chow and a lot of other dance bards. But this villain...: How many Disney Princesses are bards that charismatically sing their way into everyone's hearts?

Is a Dance Bard able to be fun and functional in melee? Or is the unarmed fighting more like a ribbon ability? While Capoeira also sounds fun, I am imagining an incredible double-jointed dubstep pop and lock master who delivers beatbox-laced beatdowns.

You know? I'd actually love that. Let people buy it on DDB first, get the errata figured out, implement errata and physically publish them, then update the DDB copies to have the errata too. But that would take too long to implement and 2024 sales would suffer. They need the money in 2024...

Fair! At least for third book. ;)

I don't understand what it is you are saying. Replacing biological "essentialism" with social classism? Can you provide clarity? Using simple words so I can understand? At first blush, I feel like clarifying that I don't see PCs as real people, rather as narrative constructs to base stories...

I think tie-ins are good if they have good timing and messaging. I wasn't making an argument to support not doing tie-ins, rather I just pointed out that is likely why we sometimes see parallel development between paper releases and some microtransaction-based digital releases because someone...

You mean "5.24e"? ;)

Tie-ins are more important for games with micro-transactions (like Idle Heroes of the Forgotten Realms and MMOs like Neverwinter).

I think the DMG will come out second, because it will include player-usable rewards like magic items and advisory rules like Encounter Building, to actually run the game. The Monster Manual is the one that is the least player-facing, and is therefore the least required for the table as a whole...

I think there is room for Cha and Con to work together, just like Monk needs Dex and Wis, but a SAD class that only needs Con? That's not going to work. That is too SAD.

Now I could get behind Sam Reich if he had the capital and never went public. Having shareholders (who aren't fans) is not a good thing for the game.

NOPE. Wizards doesn't have a monopoly on being terribad.

My aversion to point-buy species helps me understand a little better why others don't like picking and choosing bestial abilities for Wildshape templates. But it's the assigning of point values to individual abilities that rubs me the wrong way. People aren't necessarily going to agree on the...

Is the intent of this ability to let a character have and protect a "real, living beast companion" rather than something like a "fey spirit that takes the form of a beast" that has that ability built in?