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I'm really confused by your and @BB Shockwave 's assertions that these are a change or a step backwards. 2014 Androspinx 2024 potential Androsphinx Both are tattooed, winged lions with jewelry indicating royalty. I don't see the "step backwards" here. It is the same design philosophy.

I really liked that preview. I feel like these Animal Lords are the types of beings the Druids make pacts with, and they FINALLY represent some of the primal nature spirits I've been wanting in the game for a long while. Immune to fire does not mean you can't get stained by soot. Soot, which...

That's fair, I keep Vampires to blood.

Yes I mean in part that. That is not the entire definition of what I mean though.

Then why, as part of dimissing the strength of narrative losses, do you mention that they are "hard"? If it isn't to dismiss them and point to death being easier for the DM to do without needing to put any work in, why start talking about how hard it is to make narrative consequences for the...

Yes, the point of the character is to play the game. With that character. And sure, some people don't get attached to their characters, but again, I'm being told that getting attached is WRONG, that caring about your character dying and seeing it as a negative impact on the game is WRONG. I'm...

Being hard doesn't mean you can't do it. Being captured, dragged off to a nest, or any of a literal hundred different things can still be defeat conditions for combat, even if DEATH!! isn't a defeat condition.

False. Completely false. Dark Souls, Blood Borne, Elden Ring. All immensely good games, whose entire premise revolves around death being merely a setback. Lack of death does not make your victories hollow. It has been a core part of... heck considering save files, lack of any mechanical loss...

Okay. Doesn't change much of any of the facts. So, to recap. You original point was there is a "massive flaw" in DnD, because the game has too large of a gap between a commoner and a 1st level character. You said "if WotC really want people to play a supers game why don't they just own up to...

Seems odd to claim he isn't saying that, when he has directly stated that he believes the game is currently heading for destruction and being ruined for not running the way he believes it should be ran.

I can claim it is bad because it objectively punishes players for doing the thing they are encouraged to do. A ball covered in razors is objectively bad for Football, as it would discourage people from catching and holding the ball. A monster whose only purpose is to punish listening at doors...

Oh, that is Swa-eet

Okay, but the DPR is kind of an important point. Sure, you could have it do a flat 30 on every hit so it does more damage than a ballista bolt on every hit.... but for the balance concerns it is important to realize that that version and this version are dealing nearly 100 dmg a turn, without...

While true, I will take a criticism like "too colorful" or "the lines are sharp enough" over something like "too cartoony" Because, as was alluded to... ...What does that even mean? I wouldn't say these three art styles share a whole lot of similarities. Sure, none of them are black...

That isn't a bad take. I've been partial to Pointy Hat's hags, which devour different emotions. so you can have hags who cultivate certain emotions (ambition, happiness, envy, ect) in mortals to feast upon the emotions created. Very interesting take with some cool archetypes in it.