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You can use most of the subclasses as well. Wizard, Cleric and Warlock subclasses need to be changed a bit, but I think all the others drop right in.

Of course. And further we can ban it, modify it or whatever to meet our personal preferences. That said it makes no sense at all thematically to fans of the Forgotten Realms and in that respect it is out of place and disappointing to people that play games heavily tied to that setting. There...

The fact he calls PDK a Paladin subclass really underminds his credibility, but other than that I agree with the article. I love the idea of a mechanically better Purple Dragon Knight I love the idea of a Fighter with a Dragon pet. Those two things should not be the same. It would make more...

I don't think I said that, either you misunderstood what I wrote or I screwed up what I typed. I do think classes are imbalanced but none of the players I play with have had a problem with that. If that is not what I said, it is what I meant.

As irrelevant as your experience or opinion on the matter. I think most people do and you have no evidence to support the claim they don't. I can only craft my position about what I believe to be the case. I am not trying to insult anyone, but find it to be a double standard asking me to...

I chose first of several levels of fighter. If you are talking about 1 level I would never take fighter, although if it is more levels I have multiclassed fighter quite often. At the end of the day, one level Fighter offers very little that can't be done better with Ranger, Paladin or Cleric...

I think the concept has that baked into it. IME someone who does not want to have reality bending abilities will not play a caster and someone who does will. I disagree. I think it is part of concept. I would agree, most don't decide based on power and power imbalance itself is not...

I really like this approach.

You are mistaken. I have never said on this board that balance between classes is a good thing. I have posted about class balance a lot (mostly in the 5E forum) and have said several times that attempts to balance classes for the sake of balance is a bad thing in my opinion. Balance between...

The groups (plural) as well as every group I have played D&D with in the last 44 years. I agree and I acknowledged that in my post above when I said: "I know it is a problem for people on this forum" For you and a few others, I agree there is some sort of problem. As I said above this is a...

I would say people play non-casters because that is what they want to play. I would not call that capitulation. They don't want to play the classes that are the most powerful. Changing the rules to give non-casters some supernatural powers for no reason or alternatively taking that away from...

Tactical Mind is a massive increase on skill checks. When compared to other PCs with an equal ability score; Fighters are the best class when it comes to skills from levels 2-4, and even with no proficiency, they will be better than other PCs with Expertise. At level 5-8 They are still hands...

My experience is consistent with the other posters. I have never had a problem with non-casters being overshadowed and in that statement I am talking about 44 years of gaming in 4 different D&D editions and with a many, many different groups both as a player and a DM. I know it is a problem...

The main part that I think you will have trouble with is the up front buy in. I can't think of anyone I have played with that asked for this. Many DMs actually offer 1st session for free or at a deep discount as a test drive to see if it is your style of game. I am not saying it is...

Playing multiple tables with the same adventure at once certainly means less prep time for each but it also makes it less fun IMO. If you are doing this as a business and looking to maximize profits while minimizing prep and still turn out a good product, that is probably the way to go. But...

I would agree. The tomb and the jungle in TOA for example are kind of two separate adventures.

Witchlight for me didn't seem a lot different than other adventures. I know when it came out there was all this talk about how different it was and you could go through it with no combat at all. But for me and my group in play it was like any other (and we did go into slaughter mode a few...

In terms of games I played I would say Rime of the Frostmaiden is the most recent. Other 5e products I would rate as classic include Tomb of Annhilation and Tyranny of Dragons. I think a desert-centric Amn adventure would be an instant classic if they did it, as would an adventure based in the...

I don't know pipes of Haunting are awesome for a non-attunement item, then there are the magic shield and weapons, which would work well on this character.

This reminds me a lot of a Dragon we fought in where evil lives around level 18 or so. It was one of the only bosses to not go down in two rounds.