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I see what you are saying and for the most part I agree with you. I don't think 2E actually brought heroic larger than life characters to life though. The default rules had players rolling 3d6 as is for their stats putting them squarely in the average joe who decided to stop plowing and go...

See, I fundamentally disagree with this line of reasoning. Why? D&D is a business. It generates profits by selling products. This on its face is not bad. Indeed most RPG companys have to have additional materials such as splat books to make money. I state splat books specifically vs...

Well I pray not too much else. They have not said anything else specific that I know of.

Yes. I meant to say Aura of Vitality. As written there is no reason I can see a class with healing spells to take this over healing word or cure wounds or goodberry, etc. This is especially true for what I call subcaster classes and by this I mean classes like the ranger and paladin

No additional spell is NEEDED. Heck, no additional subclasses are needed per se but they are WANTED and more importantly they are FUN! Also, again the game was not "easy mode" pre-XG. The game is just not a grindfest and random Effery of PCs like in some older editions such as 1E. This is a...

Yeah see the whole "5E being easy mode" that is definitely OSR. I mean just be honest about it. 5E is not easy mode it is an edition that makes cinematic heroes out of the PCs just like larger than life fantasy heroes of yesteryear (Conan, John Carter of Mars, etc) I have no issue with this...

No 5E is not easy mode. What 5E is about is having PCs be larger than life action style heroes and as both a DM and player I think this is fine and keeps in like with many classic larger than life Sword & sorcery heroes of old like Conan who may or may not be born to a lower social class but...

They are only a problem DMs who dream of the OSR days and want PCs to be on a constant grind and dying regularly.

But it is more of an OSR style thinking. The whole "power creep" notion....players like having options that adds power sets to their characters. I and many people enjoy playing heroes that are not just average Joe's that decided to go adventuring but are heroes above the average person who...

This change if true makes the spell nigh useless especially for rangers which are already an underwhelming class due in no small part to their more limited spell casting abilities as opposed to paladins who can get spells like prayer of healing and change the spells daily, etc. I also like the...

Those spells are fine. Seems like 5E has a vocal contingent of the OSR crowd who wants D&D to be like it was in the 70s when PCs died several times a session and were completely hosed down as far as healing and spell usage, etc. It wasn't fun back then especially when other games came along...

Fair enough. I know first edition OA did well. I was basing it off the fact that the Kara-Tur boxed set which was when OA was incorporated in the realms never really got reprinted and also the fact that when they did OA in 3E they never updated it for 3.5 like they did other books. Now...

Valid point on the alternation of settings. I have no problem with them alternating between new and legacy settings. I also stated that I personally don’t want to see a setting like Dark Sun released until WOTC has developed an official psionic system as psionics was an integral part of Dark...

This was one argument I made and what you say about this being the reason WOTC wants to be the one to release settings makes perfect sense. Again, the market saturation of D20 publishers in 3E eventually did have a negative impact which is one reason I recall WOTC saying they tightened the...

I have backed Kickstarters for some very interesting third-party 5E settings but the fact is people prefer official material including official settings myself included. There are numerous reasons for this: 1) official material in theory has been better playtested and this will be of better...

I don't think WOTC should release Dark Sun unless psionics rules are official, preferably as a separate system of magic versus being a subsystem as they are in the UA rules. 5E is the longest any edition of D&D has been out without official psionics rules. The overly slow production schedule...

This statement has to do with the setting being completely new and liked by a younger player unfamiliar with the setting how?

Yeah no need to be pedantic. :) I don't have children (and never wish to) so not good with what babies are doing at what exact age but the point is this "classic" world she enjoyed because it was well produced, distinctive from generic fantasy, and brand new (to her age group). So they whole...

@Reynard you could be correct regarding the Dark Sun brand being esoteric with a younger generation of players but then so was Eberron for many. For example, Eberron is still a young setting to me but in my gaming group we have a player who is 22 years old. She would probably have just been...

Man, I am going to buy the book but I sincerely hope that is not the cover. The alternate cover looks okay but the standard cover with with the Angelina Jolie looking elf and bunny rabbit bird thing looks wack. Nothing about this cover to me says pulp fantasy or noir. It looks like an...