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We had Weird Psions in Tasha's. The Aberrant Mind nailed every single mechanical point of the psion except having 80 pages of pseudo-spells. It was just far too weird for people who wanted a nice boring psion because it had a touch of the mythos about it and dared to call itself a subclass...

I've recently had a long flight and read the release candidate offered on Matt Colville's Patreon. And something jumped out at me about the "each class has a special resource. Class: Censor Resource: Wrath Starting value: Victories Gain each turn: 2 Additional gain: 1/combat you damage your...

But that's not what we are getting. We already have a 5e Eberron book. We're instead getting a 112 page game update - and we had 15 pages of art-free mechanics. This isn't a full setting book.

I've noticed that every edition seems to come in three waves: The core. The bulk of the central ideas - the PHB The Extensions. Xanathar's/Power source Power/the Complete series. Things designed with the same philosophy as the core but there (often with reason) wasn't space for The Weirdness...

Random musing - the AI doesn't want soldiers. That's part of its point. I'm thinking it either recruits an existing group of hapless b or c list actors who think they've got a really good job offer (shades of Tropic Thunder) or it selects a squad of video gamers through sabre metric nonsense...

I'm mostly concerned going forwards - we already have Realms and Eberron books - and the new Eberron book is only 112 pages. The Eberron UA was, of course, an art-free 15 pages. Gonna be a hard sell in ways the updated PHB wasn't.

I'm reading something pretty clear from your four groups. 100% of the groups currently playing 3.5 are not interested in D&D 2024 100% of the groups playing 5e have switched to D&D 2024 - even paying to do so

I 100% do for players of fighters, barbarians, monks, rogues, sorcerors, or warlocks. All those classes had substantial (and good) overhauls and they all needed them. And that's half the classes including two or three of the most popular (certainly fighter and rogue, probably warlock).

No one is saying that Colville has done anything illegal or even unethical. Just that his approach to publicising his game is annoying and counterproductive. Better than ignoring them...

I'm in the same boat. If you'd asked me a year ago which D&Desque game I was most interested in I'd have said Draw Steel in a heartbeat. I don't watch Colville much, mostly because his sensibilities are too like mine. In the last month Daggerheart (a game I expected not even to be worth picking...

And the food itself behaved like food with an ironic fae curse on it (eat the food that wasn't yours and you mysteriously grow heavier).

If you think that The Red Wedding isn't a horror situation then we have a strong difference of what horror situations are. If you just mean "Buffy horror" rather than grittier horror then Daggerheart does that just fine. Honestly the main difference is grit - and that's what I'm adding. It...

And this shows that even all this you still haven't understood basic motivations. In D&D a common tension draining thing from e.g. stealth or social missions is that the characters were designed to kick ass and take names. And the PCs know that if they fail and a fight breaks out they are...

As no one's done it yet I'm going to mention Daggerheart which has a to hit and a damage roll. It's cinematic not realistic admittedly. To Hit: Roll plus modifier vs Evasion (for PCs) or Difficulty (for NPCs - it's an asymmetric system). Damage: Roll your damage and compare to armour-based...

Daggerheart has three degrees of success (Crit/Succeed/Fail). It also has "With hope" and "With fear" that theoretically are independent of and at ninety degrees to whether you succeeded (but in reality are more like at sixty degrees). As I understand it Draw Steel is pure degrees of success...

And the simple answer is "because I want to do a range of things as part of a varied campaign where we get to keep the same characters rather than use a system that has one job". With this premise and it feeding into long term character growth doing things in 5e rather than a dedicated system...

You are saying using the rules as written is "fighting the system". And by claiming I'm "randomly deciding" rather than crafting a scenario that deliberately plays to the event in question you are making it pretty obvious that any claims of not engaging in good faith coming from you are pure...

I'm not sure how right you are here - more accurately you need to hit the numbers. Druids will be useful but the gap between a druid and a warrior will be significantly less than between e.g. a 5e druid and a 5e fighter. And in these situations there isn't supposed to be a normal fight. You are...

I'm going to disagree that the difference is wild here. Your Hope is a limited resource - and from Tier 2 onwards those without magical abilities can normally devote a single tick to get two experiences up to +3 and they are right there in the game while those with magic tend to spend it on...

I'd need some basic hacking for a continual situation. Using the rules that the game presents you with in ways that are entirely in line with the intent of the rules for a result that takes minimal effort and is significantly better than handwaving is the literal opposite of fighting the rules...