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Well, you explicitly conceded that the Rogue’s Evasion was supernatural, as was their stroke of luck feature, which is at least as supernatural as the Barbarian’s Danger Sense. So that just leaves the Fighter. Which goes back to the fact that a fighter’s combat abilities (such as the ability...

I think that answers a different question . Your background should inform who you are, it shouldn’t limit who you become. My cleric’s background is that he is an acolyte of his faith. He served as a priest in his village for years before he was called for something greater. Should the DM...

If the chant that Bard used before shooting the Black Arrow was magical, does that make Bard magical as well? I would argue that it doesn’t, and therefore Bard is a reasonable representative of a mid-to-high level fighter. The main point is that it is Bard’s player’s choice as to how magical...

Upvoted for the interesting lore. That being said, I’m not a big fan of Chesterton, as his article on Chesterton’s fence reads to much to me as a defense of the status quo for its own sake.

It’s worth pointing out that while the response post: is fallacious: “the best days of D&D are behind us, so let’s not try something new”. The original post: was not. The fallacy is valuing the new because it is new, not because it is good. Trying new things to find out if they are good...

I don’t think so. Is there explicit agreement that the barbarian’s rage is not mundane? What about the monk’s flurry of blows? The bard’s jack of all trades? The ranger’s terrain expertise? I think it is more accurate to state that no one cares whether monks, barbarians, rangers, or bards...

I don’t know. G.K. was a grognard before it was cool, so I’m not sure he’s the best choice to run WotC.

It seems to me what you’re asking for is for WotC to tell you what is mundane and what isn’t, instead of every table making its own determination. I’ve never particularly flinched at Evasion. It’s a cool ability. If it bothers you that it seems extraordinary rather than mundane, than you can...

Yup.

But it isn’t just hit points, it’s combat in general, as a fighter with a longsword shouldn’t be able to pierce the hide of an ancient dragon, much less kill it.

Pathfinder (and maybe 3.5) has extraordinary (Ex) and supernatural (Su). The distinction wasn’t particularly useful and later editions got rid of it. I see no compelling reason to bring it back.

I agree. In vanilla 5e, the problem with familiars is that it is a ridiculously powerful spell for essentially no cost: 0 spell slot cost; 10 gp and 10 minutes to recast; Grant advantage on attacks once per turn; Free low-risk scouting; Deliver touch spells without putting yourself personally...

Don’t forget: Nature Warrior -Fighter for those players who want to play a woodsman without spells.

Tell that to Arcana, Tempest and Light clerics, who all have extremely strong spell lists. Honestly, with the exception of the trait that allows bards to grab 2 spells from other lists, the bard’s spell list is pretty restricted.

Well, ironically, one of the principal reasons I’m against discarding the sorcerer is that the Divine Soul is the principal way to play the “white magic caster without combat training” archetype.

I have, and I even model many of my exploration challenges on Level Up. That said, the exploration challenges in Level Up still seem to expend fewer resources than a medium combat encounter. At the end of a medium combat encounter, several characters have taken quite a bit of damage, and...

I think, that where the question falls into a logical fallacy, is that playing a particular race does not require a character to have all the race’s traits, just a sufficient amount of traits to be recognizable as that race. To go even further, I would point out that different people can...

You mean like clerics? Or druids?

This reflects a strongly outdated conception of the people that play D&D. It seems that many current D&D players are the “theater kids” and many of them would relate to a class with strong social skills and which obtains its power from performance. Even beyond that, a major draw for bards is...

Since we are talking about attrition of character’s resources, social and non-combat encounters count only to the extent that they use up character resources to the same extent as a combat. I do run both fulsome exploration and social encounters but it is rare that an exploration encounter...