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After the success of Balder's Gate, I'm surprised that there is not yet an option to play a Mindflayer.

As far as the point costs in such a system, creating your own math through which to show how it wouldn't work via math chosen to show that it doesn't work isn't something I find convincing. But that's just my opinion on the matter. If glittering smite isn't available until a certain level, it's...

I'm fine with 80s Action movie violence -to an extent. By all means, exaggerating things is part and parcel for fantasy, but I also like to be able to buy into it. Pro Wrestling is a good comparison for about where I think D&D should be. Plenty of things in pro wrestling are ridiculous (i.e...

If you were to multiclass into sorcerer, it still works. You could gain sorcerer slots just like you would before - no change. It's true that the piety points wouldn't work with sorcerer spells. Similarly, a paladin/barbarian doesn't get to benefit from unarmored defense while wearing heavy...

How is it that pieces of the game used to create every character are "isolated," but suggesting that there might be different ways to build 1 class somehow impacts more of the system? Again, if you don't like the proposed idea, fine. It was an idea about a different way of looking at a class...

Not any more complex than what is already done within the context of 5e. Also, multiclassing isn't in any way messed up.

They "solved" the problem by completely changing how it works -and that's apparently acceptable. However, any suggestion that there may have been other ways to approach the issue = "holy moly, the entire game is breaking!" Wtf? •complete overhaul of race/species - fine •complete overhaul of...

Ignore? No. There are options for still doing those things (which I briefly discussed previously). At no point have I said that I would take any of that away. Others have said that. I didn't.

Fair points, but virtually everything you've mentioned could be addressed with very little work. How does it work with multiclassing? No change. It would count as 1/3 of a class for determining how many spell slots it counts toward when multiclassing. Figuring out how something like...

Good points and very true. The same goes for the antagonists. There's no reason why a kobold in a wheelchair should be treated any differently than the others. It's still the same amount of XP.

If I choose one of the old backgrounds, it seems that I also still get the background feature.

I don't feel that accurately reflects what I've said. But I understand that you don't like a paladin moving further away from being a typical caster. The "extra power would need to go somewhere..." No, because that had been addressed in previous comments. Still, you don't like it, so okay. As...

It's not any more work than what was already being done. There were other possible ways for making changes that were still within the 5e framework. The viewpoint that anything outside of giving a class more spell slots and more vancian-esque casting means some massive undertaking is a...

There are options for how to simplify those pieces. Either way, it has been changed. My initial proposal for the points was to say that there are/were options for fixing the parts of Smite that could take inspiration from non-wizards. Allegedly, the wheel was broken. I proposed...

That's a fair point of view. Do you feel that the paladin should evolve to be more similar to wizards and clerics?

I don't see it as a "massive design challenge" to use things that already exist within the paladin class framework and already exist as building blocks of 5e class design. Why do you feel that it would be a MASSIVE disruption to the game when it isn't currently one?

As said, worked examples of possible alternatives include the 5e monk (ki points,) 5e sorcerer (metamagic,) 5e warlock (varying able to modify Eldritch Blast,) and 4e Psionic Classes. Reading some of the 5e24 previews, similar ideas have been used for other classes (such as the rogue being able...

No. There wouldn't be spell slots.

I am not effectively calling to give more spell slots. As I understand it, the 5e24 version receives spells earlier. As my suggestion was to not use spell slots, the claim that I want to "effectively" add spell slots is objectively false.

Does the monk gain spell slots in 5e24?