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Well, it does. If I slap "Neutral Good" on my character sheet, the DM has a vague expectation that I will be swell guy and will expect that I do swell guy things. If I wear a "Chaotic Evil" hat instead, the DM will think that I'm going to be a jerk and might even veto my character. Nobody agrees...

Oh, please. If we abolished alignment right this moment, the plurality of GMs would still be mortified if one of my characters espouses the merits of chattel slavery, or endorses sacrificing a baby to the Dark Gods™. I am a connoisseur of evil clerics, and removing the "evil" label that gets...

I wonder if the joke was too subtle?

Absolutely, provided the alignment of said behavior is detailed within the book. If the rules say we have to do it, then we have to do it.

Ball bearings cover a 10 foot square, so no, you cannot dance around them.

All right, I'm going to be that person. People don't just dive into encounters without any contingencies, right? No caltrops or ball bearings to drop while running, no grease or web spells prepared? Nobody scoped out the area, saw that ogre boiling elf bones in a pot, and wisely told everyone...

I believe that this is a misunderstanding of intent, so I will provide an example that could be encountered in play. The party is level three. They come across a rugged rock face that they want to scale. Normally, there would be a difficult Athletics check involved to get to the top - but the...

We'll never know, will we? The demographic that likes things the way they are won't take to the internet to complain about it.

It's hyperbolic. No, nobody is being coerced into using Tasha's on pain of death, but the book may as well be an "unofficial patch" that addresses common complaints about 5th Edition and a good deal of its contents will assuredly be folded into 5.5. Anecdotally, when I banned it at my table...

While I am in the minority that vastly prefers aasimar to tieflings, this is... oddly specific. I feel that this does not do justice to the difficulty that complicated ancestry brings in places where it matters. It just so happens that I am of mixed lineage myself. Reality being what it is, I...

Caster - single class. Martial - multiclass. Important features tend to be front-loaded in 5th Ed, and proficiency bonus is tied to character level, so exploiting break points provides a way for martials to expand their arsenal.

Mind, this was the same splat that introduced the elf samurai, and there hasn't been an errata for that either as far as I'm aware. So you are right, it seems the developers felt that what they put in the book functions as intended. Shenanigans involving the hexblade subclass mostly pertain to...

The DragonStrike sequel that never was - WildSpace!

Total agreement wit this post, I was merely musing on their wider reception and some peculiar trends in published material. Expanding on this idea, more recent data still has Fighter in the lead, albeit a narrower one, and the Echo Knight/Rune Knight subclasses seem to have been received quite...

Well, they have to get people to play Bards somehow, don't they? Despite the frequent complaints levelled at the system on forums and the like, players seemed content with how martials operated at the time that this data was pulled from D&DBeyond. Perhaps WotC saw this and somehow felt...

The problem is not so much that the old way was fantastic, rather, the assumed need to buy items was stripped out and not really supplanted with a meaningful alternative, which hurts martials (who didn't have access to things like Fly or Invisibility in the first place) a heck of a lot more than...

I'm seeing a lot of discussion in this thread about how martials need a boost and casters need a nerf. Martials (at least as presented in 5th Ed) do suffer some endemic problems that I've yet to see discussed in this thread, but I am surprised that nobody has brought up the harm that the...

Just offering a different angle, I guess. I was pointing out that being of similar Power Level isn't really any indication of parity between the two of them. What matters is how their points are distributed - or in narrative terms, how their abilities are expressed in the fiction. Batman is the...