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Barbarian: Path of the Totem Warrior 52 Bard: College of Lore 50 Cleric: Tempest Domain 35 Druid: Circle of the Shepherd 40 Fighter: Battle Master 46 Monk: Way of the Kensei 48 Paladin: Oath of the Ancients 51 Sorcerer: Divine Soul 34 Ranger: Gloom Stalker 49 Rogue: Thief 52 -- Tall poppy...

Barbarian: Path of the Totem Warrior 52 Bard: College of Lore 49 Cleric: Tempest Domain 35 Druid: Circle of the Shepherd 40 Fighter: Battle Master 49 Monk: Way of the Kensei 48 Paladin: Oath of the Ancients 51 - Bogarting the ranger's shtick is unpaladinic behavior! Sorcerer: Divine Soul 40...

Artificer: Battle Smith 21 Barbarian: Path of the Totem Warrior 50 Bard: College of Lore 51 Cleric: Tempest Domain 41 Druid: Circle of the Shepherd 44 Fighter: Battle Master 47 Monk: Way of the Kensei 48 Paladin: Oath of the Ancients 52 Sorcerer: Divine Soul 44 Ranger: Gloom Stalker 48 Rogue...

Artificer: Battle Smith 37 Barbarian: Path of the Totem Warrior 50 Bard: College of Lore 52 Cleric: Tempest Domain 45 Druid: Circle of the Shepherd 47 Fighter: Battle Master 50 Monk: Way of the Kensei 52 Paladin: Oath of the Ancients 53 Sorcerer: Divine Soul 48 Ranger: Gloom Stalker 52 Rogue...

The point I'm making could be rephrased as "from a TSR-era D&D perspective, the Battle Master is a caster in mechanics", sure. But from a 3.x perspective, that "almost all" is literally untrue. Barbarians had limited-use rage, monks had limited-use ki, and those were half the non-caster core...

Almost precisely half in jest. One meaning of "fighter" would be "the narrative role of someone who is an expert at physical combat". But another meaning would be "the mechanical play experience of the class as expressed in the core rules of most editions of the game." With core OD&D, AD&D...

Artificer: Battle Smith 42 Barbarian: Path of the Totem Warrior 53 Bard: College of Lore 51 Cleric: Tempest Domain 49 Druid: Circle of the Shepherd 49 Fighter: Battle Master 48 Monk: Way of the Kensei 50 Mystic: Order of the Immortal 23 Paladin: Oath of the Ancients 54 Sorcerer: Divine Soul 48...

Abjuration 9 Transmutation 8 Abjuration remains the most completely misnamed of the schools.

Abjuration 10 Divination 8 Transmutation 10

Yes, those two seem to have been an erroneous omission from 3.5, and then then when the PI was reviewed for 5th edition, they apparently worked from the 3.5 SRD list. Notably, the PI declaration in the 3.5 book Unearthed Arcana added the slaad (and omitted some others), presumably prompted by...

Abjuration 16 Conjuration 12 Divination 16 Enchantment 14 Transmutation 9 War Magic 5

Upon a careful search, you're right; the 3.5 SRD was released no later than July 22nd (per the date of a forum post linking to the release), while the 3.5 core rules show up for the first time on the July 24th USA Today bestseller list (meaning they went on sale some time the previous week). I...

The decisions as to what to release in the 3rd edition, 3.5, and 5th edition SRDs were not finalized until months after those editions were already in stores. I expect that WotC won't really decide what to release in the next SRD until after the next edition is released either.

Well, the choices of monsters was pretty historically contingent. Basically, the criteria for those was: Is the monster in the 3rd edition Monster Manual? Does Ryan Dancey/WotC in 2000-2001 think the monster has any economic value in non-game contexts, like on T-shirts or the like? Is Ryan...

Abjuration 19 Conjuration 17 Divination 22 Enchantment 15 Transmutation 17 War Magic 16

Abjuration 24 Bladesinging 18 Conjuration 23 Divination 25 Enchantment 21 Transmutation 25 War Magic 18

Yeah, certainly not ideal. But the worst-case scenario right now is a repeat of an era that saw some 3PPs (though certainly not all) indubitably thrive. The likely scenarios involve a new edition sufficiently compatible with 5th that the existing SRD is adequate-if-imperfect, the DM's Guild...

I would say so. Well, I'd advise that they do, but I'm a fan (and occasional writer) who has three decades' perspective on the RPG market's ups and downs. I know that an updated SRD (particularly given how much was already released under the OGL in the 3rd, 3.5, and 5th SRDs) is worth a lot...

It doesn't, because the only WotC-released SRDs were for 3rd, 3.5, and 5th. That material has three things going for it: The 3rd edition SRD (in particular) had a lot of text that was unchanged or lightly changed from AD&D 2e. Copyright protects expression, not ideas. None of it is selling...

Well, it would depend on exactly what you were doing. At the absolutely safest, one could write an adventure in accordance with these suggestions made (by TSR) back in 1994: Beyond that, there's a whole range of opinions about how much more compatible you can get without slipping into the...