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It's a reverse of the focus; the difference is there but which one is being presented as important or desirable is different. And you can 100% make a Trad character who drifted in and is unlinked to the setting in a NeoTrad campaign. For that matter if you want to you can make a Trad character...

Again this depends on whether you are talking at character creation or at run time. Taking my current wizard's planned level 4 into account: They will have 7 prepared spells out of fourteen in their spell book (and their only combat cantrip is True Strike) Their seven non-prepared spells will...

Not that I'm aware of - which is a huge pity. I mean the at will invocations for Silent Image, Disguise Self, Jump, and Magical Force Field (False Life) are all both very easy to use and very much character defining for several levels. Likewise ... when I don't start at level 0

YMMV especially under 2024 rules. I mean I see how you can get there if you've made poor choices in invocations (Agonizing Blast plus ones that didn't make it to 2024; there are a lot of bad invocations in the 2014 PHB with over a quarter of them just being dumped), and you keep the incredibly...

Minor objection but only a minor one: once you take subclasses into account the wizard is actually at the low end of spells prepared unless they've been getting spellbooks as loot. This is especially true under the 2024 rules where all cleric subclasses, all warlock subclasses, and 3/4 of...

There are two different answers based on whether you're looking at at creation/level up or in play. At creation it's probably the cleric. You cast spells and if you don't know what to do you heal or hit people. And it's basically it's impossible to mess up making a cleric unless you dump...

You can check polish and care for quality. There are some significant examples where in the 2014 PHB there was a lack of care and attention paid to actually doing what they were trying to with the class. The 2014 Beastmaster Ranger is, oddly enough, not an example of this; instead it's an...

I'd disagree. I think the differentiation is do you make the player character part of the world or do you make them separate from the world as if they could have just been Isikai'd in from another world.

I'm of the opinion that there are only two basic mistakes DMs make. Making the game all about them and what they want rather than the group Being unwilling or unable to move things forward and have consequences

Any party with a L9 (or worse L11) fighter has a significant number of push effects, and a party with a barbarian nearly as many.

Basically they broke almost all the zones. Any zone that procs both on the caster's turn and the victim's should be considered broken.

You ... do know magic isn't real, right? I don't see why a dance bard deserves to be worse than a wizard or we can't have unrealistic fantasies working out in D&D

When I say that the Wizard should be the Books/Rituals subclass of sorcerer I'm only slightly joking. The fighter takes more finesse to fix because there's no one class that's almost like it but a lot in its space. I do wonder how much of the strength fighter you could melt into giving the...

One of the improvements made in the 2024 rules was how it eased back out of this trap through moving the subclasses to level 3 and adding stat modifiers to the feats. Under 2014 rules the strongest paladin and contender for the strongest all rounder in the game (certainly the strongest without...

Just to ask a simple question: is English your first language? Because although your English is generally pretty good you are reasoning like someone who has learned English from books and as a second language rather than a native English speaker who actually uses the language. Or you are...

The part where I agreed not to leave other people with your incorrect take as the final word of the exchange. You are entirely willing to say that something's the last thing you have to say (and I encourage it and have learned over the last decade to practice what I preach here; I speak from...

You need to check your basics. This is a deceptive edit based on a sentence fragment and ignoring the role of punctuation. At the most trivial you are wrong that you have to cast the spell on your turn; Hellish Rebuke is a spell you cast on someone else's turn but gets the extra damage. And...

The change to take out the word "hostile" and instead leave who to attack to the discretion of the attacker makes complete sense. War Caster making spell OAs makes sense (although I thought they'd changed something there). It's a not following consequences bug. One I plan to treat with a rolled...

Simply put this appears to be complete balderdash. Although it is theoretically possible to put together a Sorlock that can use it twice on a turn this was always weaker than making your quickened cantrip an agonizing Eldritch Blast. And I can't think of a single bonus action fire or radiant...