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I disagree, because your conclusions rely on certain assumptions that aren’t necessarily set in stone. Why wouldn’t a wizard learn a spell to pick locks? Well, maybe the spell simply allows the caster to use their magic stat to attempt to pick the lock, better than relying on their native...

I agree with your point and will add another. It’s not really fun if, as a higher level fighter, your best strategy in combat is always I run over and hit it. It gets repetitive.

As to why sorcerers and wizards can’t make their mage hands invisible like arcane tricksters. Just to be clear, I agree that class-exclusive abilities and spells shouldn’t be available to other classes. The point that I’m making is that the nitpicking about whether a fighter can take a certain...

Is FR the default setting? I thought 5e didn’t have a default setting. So, does the PHB need to explicitly state that at levels 1-4 rogues and fighters (but not barbarians or monks) are explicitly mundane. And further, that at level 5 (no earlier, no later) rogues and fighters become...

I definitely get this. I remember one game where a PC had a younger brother that was envious of his older brother and trying to screw him over. Both I and the player have younger brothers, and both our younger brothers were in the game! Despite the fact that I had intended the younger brother...

The context of the post is @Micah Sweet claiming that D&D fighters and rogues must be mundane because their PHB write-up doesn’t explicitly state that they are extraordinary or supernatural. Applying that reasoning to Beowulf, Beowulf is also mundane. My personal opinion is that both Beowulf...

To be fair to Krillan, the creatures mopping the floor with him are sufficiently powerful to destroy the world. The fact that he survives multiple encounters with them is sufficient for me to consider that he would likely win handily against like a D&D Frost Giant.

You wrote: I responded with several examples, including Batman and Green Arrow. You responded by shifting the goalposts. All non-tabletop characters benefit from plot armor and metacurrency. That is the difference between written fiction and a tabletop game. Your distinction doesn’t hold...

Batman King Arthur Ulysses from the Odyssey Green Arrow Beowulf Edit. Krillin

The point is that wizards can cast magic because the PHB says they can cast magic is an equally circular argument. You are applying a different standard to certain classes rather than others.

I can see why you would want to do it, I just don’t see Ex and Su enabling this sort of play. Take your example. There isn’t a fighter ability that permits you to leap 40’ and attack. You could fall back on the Jumping rules to argue that with a sufficiently high Athletics check, you should...

Does it matter? If I say it comes from the positive plane, that doesn’t work in settings that don’t have a positive plane. Leave it open, let each table decide. The metaphysics of spellcasting don’t have to be set down to play the game, and they certainly don’t have to be set down for all...

Tyranny of the unpopular, then? Sounds worse.

I didn’t want to go full spell points with the sorcerer, because I don’t feel they balance well in 5e. Instead, sorcerers can burn their HD for more spell slots. It really gives the impression of them simply be able to outcast their other classes, but at the cost of their life force. (This...

That was someone else’s statement, so I’ll let them defend for themselves.

It’s all about where you set the limits. I get that it’s a little silly to say “Charlemagne’s paladins were defenders of Christianity, it doesn’t make sense to have them as zealous warriors in an openly polytheistic society” But is it any less silly to go “having zealous warriors for...

Definitely in my version of 5e, rangers can pick up a “ranger discipline” that allows them to understand the speech of beasts. Not sure it’s something generally available to rangers though.

Who gives the ranger and monk superpowers?

True, to bring the discussion back to sorcerers, you could totally create a Divine Soul Sorcerer who instead of being blessed by a Celestial, derives their magic from their powerful faith, without being beholden to a god.

But James is correct here: in the Complete Paladin’s handbook, back in 2e, Charlemagne’s paladins are the explicit inspiration for the class.