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A lot of it has to do with the fact that magic has license to follow completely arbitrary rules, whereas anything purporting to be actual martial combat is expected to at least have some sliver of grounding in how people think historical combat worked. Magic can also be more readily limited to...

My own 5e clone game's take on the Barbarian is just a subclass of my Warrior class that gets rage so far. I'm not opposed to having a full class for it, but I struggle to think of enough subclasses to base off of it. 5e's solution of making a bunch of different types of magic barbarian doesn't...

I mean that sort of detail might make sense in a game about humanoids fighting humanoids in a pseudo-medieval fantasy world. What makes bringing in much of the subtleties of real world fighting technique a terrible fit for D&D is that neither the Venetian school or the Neapolitan school have...

Harry Potter is the best know fantasy setting that has a comparable base level of magic to what D&D assumes. Which is fine, I just wish the market leader in fantasy gaming made setting assumptions in line with more typical fantasy storytelling.

So I've been making a 5e clone game of my own that also uses a standard subclass progression, which due largely to chance (and where one can fit these things), happened to end up almost the same as WotC's for OneD&D. In any case I did have a breakthrough in terms of realizing that I could have...

I would have preferred to see them as PC builds. If one of them has a feature that's awesome in the movie and can't be replicated on a PC in the actual game then it's time to design a new subclass, feat, etc. to support that, within reason, in play, not shunt them off to being sui generis npcs...

Says a My Little Pony, with an eyepatch.

Obviously it ends featuring characters from Transformers, GI Joe, and whatever other properties will eventually be part of the Hasbro Cinematic Universe.

Fair points all. I personally don't think the number of people who will decided to play versus not play based on the factors you mention is likely to exceed the number of people who avoid the new edition because they don't want to buy a bunch of new books and learn a bunch of new rules just to...

What about OneD&D makes it more capable of reaching "further masses" than the existing game? What is the "unifying" force your envision? In any case I own most of the 5e books and intend to keep playing it or derivations of it indefinitely, but I'm not sure I'll even get a PHB for OneD&D, a...

For people without a prior relationship with the 5e rules set it is a pretty middle of the road crpg. Obviously games with rules built for computer gaming are going to have more potential to be good computer games, and Solasta has extra ugly facemorphs and pretty anemic voice-acting (not...

No, it's really not. Also I don't care. Obviously its two systems. It's two systems that are probably going to be pretty easy for a savvy user to navigate between, but if you had a group of newbies and half of them had 5e PHBs and half of them had 5.5 PHBs, my prediction is that it would be a...

Let's go with Shadow Sorcerer/Hexblade Warlock/Assassin Rogue. I just consider a Sorcerer, someone born with intrinsic magical power welling up inside them, pledging fealty to serve some other being intrinsically the most edgy-boy build, and doubly so if that being is an inanimate magic sword...

My perspective is that I have the 5e base classes to play my 5e subclasses with, and if for some reason I someday want to play a 5.5 base class I would have the subclasses designed for those to play with them. It is enough of a constraint on design to allow these two different versions of...

Well, I would consider it unfortunate that they placed that particular unnecessary design constraint on themselves. But we'll see.

Interesting. I refuse to think about the atrocity that is the OneD&D Bard so I'm not surprised I'd have a blindspot on that front.

Agreed. The quote of mine you are responding to here was about using the subclass from the one version with the base class from the other version, not using two versions of the base class at the same table. I see no problem with using different versions of the base class at the same table as...

I guess you could if you want your game to be a clash of messy elements with no design care. It does not seem advisable. Looking just at the most recent playtest, using the new moon druid subclass with the old druid, or vice versa, would involve meshing two incompatible systems of wildshaping...

While I can imagine toxic social media commentary on this sort of thing sinking a low budget film trying to rely on word of mouth, or taking over discussion of a movie that people also hated for other reasons, as long as the expensive marketing machine keeps rolling and the movie is actually any...

The basic format of semi-bumbling comedic hero that the Chris Pine character seems to be built in the mold of goes back to ancient times. The innovation of more recent media is being more willing to put such a character as the lead of something which is not entirely a comedy, rather than making...