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I'm of the opinion that the druid's first four major subclasses should be the following : Moon (focused on wildshape) Shepherd (focused on being a summoner) ??? (focused on being a healer, the druid equivalent of a life cleric, with elements that touch on herbalism ) Land (terrain / weather...

To be absolutely fair, that might be something they're changing in 1D&D. In 5e, it was necessary, but perhaps that will change? Or maybe there will be something for those using their unarmed/natural weaponry, and you'll have magic claw weaponry?

As long as it was a select group of animals, that is, that matched your CR access, and was relatively workable in play. Required system mastery sucks. I mean, I'd love for you to have a build-an-animal option too. But there's very good reasons why the old druid was the least played class in...

I feel like a better term for old druid shapeshifting was "annoying" - had more steps, in that you had to search databases and read through stat blocks and the like. It was close to homework.

Nah, that's not it - it has nothing to do with templates and reskinning. Its more about having to pick and choose random Beasts with each CR jump that would work. The problem is that you basically either went bear at low levels, or you absolutely sucked. Then as you went into higher levels...

Wow. Talk about quadrupling down on Wild Shape. There's, like, three things in Druid that's not revolving around that. But I have to say, I'm really enjoying the new animal work. I know a bunch of people here are all like, oh its so generic. But I'm all like, "Sweet. I can now play my drow...

Okay. But I still want Pally.mounts, ranger companions, warlock super familiars and artificer golems. This has more to do fulfilling those classes' fantasy for me, and has no bearing on the presence or absence of other classes. Especially in the core.

I say Artificer. Why? Part of what makes a half-caster a half-caster to me isn't just sword + magic. Its having a pet. Paladin mounts. Ranger companions. Warlock familiars. Artificer golems. Its my wish, my dream, that this would be expanded upon and encouraged. I would like to see us...

Spell schools has use with using detect magic while dungeon crawling. Or any otherwise magical investigations. Planes, as places to travel to and adventure, are setting locations. We have more than one official adventure set amongst the planes, and at least two settings as whole rely on them...

I'd argue it was more that Arcane was always going to cover elemental and shadow - I mean, hells. Just look at the simple subclass options wizard, warlock and sorcerer - evoker, fiend, and dragon. All renowned for blowing things up with elemental powers, especially fireballs. The 4e swordmage...

Too bad this was an abject failure of design. The only ones to use Elemental power were the Arcane classes. Wizard, sorcerer, swordmage, etc. Shadow had the assassin and vampire "classes" - and even then, assassin turned into a half-martial class - Everything else was again swallowed by the...

Arcane Gish: the Story Arcane Gish Fans: We want a gish! WotC: Hey, check out this Eldritch Knight in the core! Or the Blade warlock! AGF: No! that's not what we want! Not enough spells to do anything on their own! WotC: Okay, okay... Umm... Here's Hexblade and Bladesinger! AGF: NO. We...

Why would summoning a Pegasus matter? I mean, its a flying mount, but we've got the Fly spell going on already, so its already a concern...

Like, as near as I can tell, Yaarel and Vaalingrade are advocating for a freeform skill system. And there are skill systems out there like that. Those systems are not D&D. D&D is a class-based system, not a freeform skill-based one. We would effectively need to revamp the entire system from...

No, no it shouldn't. The whole point of different classes is because people LIKE niches and specialization. Even in freeform systems people gravitate towards certain tropes and archetypes. If you want druids to cast fireballs... then it should be restricted to wildfire druids. Having every...

Its not being updated into the PHB CORE. Considering how much they've been talking about it in the UA pdfs, I somehow doubt that qualifies as "barely remembers." Post Tasha's, we've had, what, three subclasses released in total? Across all classes? EDIT - sorry, five total subclasses...

Isn't Artificer the arcane gish half-caster class? They already said that's not going into the PHB

I get the feeling that psionics are going to be fully integrated into Arcane magic now. Sorcerers basically ate the Psion with Abberant Mind, and GOO warlocks are a thing. I half suspect that we'll be seeing the Feywild and Shadowfell shift from being echoes to being the old Positive/Negative...

Druids. I expect druids. Hopefully in a more interesting package so that they'll not be the least played class by a mile anymore. I'm expecting that we'll get some more rules on healing and Exhaustion/yo-yo combat. I get the feeling that bringing someone back up from Unconscious is going to...

The closest has been the Hellfire Warlock PrC. 5e converted a blood witch from the Cult of Ravnos as a fiend warlock as well.