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This is one of the reasons I've always viewed HP as kind of abstract, and more to do with near misses and luck than actual health. I don't picture a lvl 10 fighter getting stabbed 20 times and still going. I picture it as 20 glancing cuts and grazes. Likewise I don't picture it as them just...

To be fair, at level 20 you're going toe to toe with gods. I can't think of much media where mundane characters are doing things on that scale.

Because a lot of us like playing 'regular' seeming people, rather than supernatural people with superpowers. I want to feel like I'm playing as Boromir, or Gimli, or Batman, or Ripley, or any other of the countless badasses without superpowers in media. 'Hollywood Physics' is fine, as it...

Ideally I like the base class martials being mundane in tiers 1-2, while being supernatural in tiers 3 and 4.

2e kineticist is definitely its own thing with its own mechanics. I never really looked at Pathfinder 1e so can't comment on that. But like I said, I do believe that elementalist can be done well with subclasses. DnD just refuses to do so.

Interestingly, Pathfinder 2e's elementalist class is extremely well received and popular. Though I do agree that elementalist could easily be a selection of subclasses, for some reason DnD seems to largely shy away from elemental themes. Even axing the playtest elemental sorcerers. I was so...

Yeah I'd rather that sorcerer leant real hard into the new innate sorcery mechanic, including linking it heavily to subclass similar to barbarians rage. Metamagic has always just felt so bland and almost never influenced by subclass. I guess that's always been one of my main issues with...

Sadly 5e absolutely refuses to add more classes. Hopefully 6e lets us have a few more. Though seeing the direction in which WotC is going in, I suspect we'd get less.

The main reason I've 'given up' caring about the sorcerer as a class is the realisation that 90% of players would rather run them as an alternate wizard, rather than as a class which pushes heavily into the monster themes.

Thing is, in almost all of the books i've read where the character has inborn power, the character is very 'human', which the sorcerer subclasses directly push away from. They don't have scales or tentacles or anything like that, which is exactly what the sorcerer bloodlines are suggesting...

Trouble is you don't want to go giving all the good gish spells to the full casters. As seen in the playtest, this just results in the full casters being able to martial better than martials and half casters.

Don't agree at all. A multiclass 'gish' just ends up being half a fighter one turn and half a caster the next. And unable to mix magic and combat in a satisfying manner. You can make a 'paladin' by multiclassing cleric and fighter, but it would still fail to do what makes paladin fun. You can...

I'm personally completely against a CON based caster. It lets people only care about a single stat and ignore all others. I'd rather make all classes more MAD, rather than what WotC is currently doing by trying to make every class SAD.

The problem with the class is that it has both heavy overlap thematically with warlock, while also having two different groups of players wanting 'their' interpretation of the sorcerer to be the one in game. And those interpretations are pretty mutually exclusive. I personally liked the 'become...

We had it already up to level 5. It's called the DnDNext Playtest. The community rioted because it wasn't a wizard clone, so we got a wizard clone.

I mean I've been advocating for this for years, and I thought there was some hope after the Tasha's subclasses actually felt really thematic and unique to their bloodline. Then we get the 1dnd playtest and it's back to square one again. Draconic bloodline especially is insanely barebones. While...

In a new half edition like 1dnd, a class definitely shouldn't be randomly dropped. When I talk about deleting classes, I'm referring to some hypothetical 6e down the road. In which there is no guarantee we would even have the same class-subclass system as 5e.

Except with sorcerer, it even has the same lore reasons as warlock for getting said powers. It even mentions draconic sorcerers getting their power via a pact with a dragon. Which is the exact definition of a warlock. While simultaneously being a gimped wizard with the metamagic feat as their...

I liked lots of ideas from 4e, but overall thought that it just wasn't DnD. I'm so glad that 5e stepped away from it. It felt insanely 'gamey' and less like a bunch of people inhabiting an actual world. A lot of my criticisms about 5e are also aimed at 'gamey' mechanics, where it feels like the...

Yeah thematically I love the idea of a sorcerer. When it comes to mechanics, it's a bad wizard with the metamagic feat glued on. Half its subclasses are bland bundles of nothing, and looking at the draconic sorcerer from the playtest, that's going to continue. Mechanically, there isn't a single...