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Interesting suggestion. Is that your suggestion for yourself? Or for ENPublishing? Or for everyone? Cutting ties with Wizards is a pretty serious thing when it is compatible with other clones, and is bigger than all those clones combined. Other fans may find value in being able to buy products...

The thing that I will miss most about not going through with the shared subclass progression we saw in the early playtest is the ability to swap abilities between subclasses, or create universal subclasses that any class can take. This would have helped with fulfilling the need to "multiclass"...

Actually, it would be great if the later subclass abilities unlocked cool effects that were worth working towards. I thought that was the point of higher level abilities. That said, it's challenging because not everyone gets to play at higher levels, and not all higher level abilities are...

I've had players at my tables who never single-class in any ongoing campaigns. They even multi-class for one-shot builds. As much as I don't like the brokenness that comes with it, multi-classing does something unique that I cannot deny to my players. If you play a single class and subclass...

Where would multiclassing land in this soup where you can get everything relevant to that new subclass (it has to have something that makes it feel like that subclass) with a single level dip? Ignored as a table preference? Altered? Not allowed?

Ability scores would no longer work as they have for years. The rules for ability scores would have to be rewritten throughout the books. The entire D&D Community would no longer be able to say "I have an 18 Strength," rather "I have a Strength of +4." There would be no more incremental odd...

I love talking about D&D with people online. D&D is my passion. Like here in the ENWorld forums. It takes a large pool of fans to have a large, and active diverse pool of insights and perspectives to interact with. I think being the largest, most popular, most accessible TTRPG is a big part of...

If you're not a person saying that the rules should only be complex, then I wasn't talking about you. But complex design that is intended only for those who want something complex, is by its nature is exclusionary. They want a product that challenges them. There is nothing wrong with that. It's...

Perhaps it would. But I think that modern D&D has a pretty good balance of simplicity and complexity. It appears to be accepted by the largest audience, and there is a healthy middle-ground of people who explore growing it into their preferred complexity by adding their own changes, or changes...

I've liked the idea of the Seeker becoming a subclass for some time. If the Seeking ability is to be used only when you miss someone, it should likely use a Reaction, so it doesn't mess with the many Bonus Actions that a Ranger has access to (like Hunter's Mark). It is also really more akin to...

Agreed. Accessibility is an intrinsic value for civilized society that encourages for the allowance for all people, of all backgrounds, including people who have different kinds or levels of intelligence or other accessibility challenges. For the people who say "The rules should only be...

Why force the design of being tough to be limited to only be available via a single feat choice? Its fine to have more than one vector to increase HP. Also, the game has "fortitude"-style saves tied to Con. It would be weird for Strength to define that value. We'd have to start changing ability...

Think about encapsulating your enemy in a bubble of thunderous energy. The bubble isn't so much a barrier, more of a trigger that pops if they try to move out of it. When they pop it, they take thunder damage. As long as they don't move out of the bubble, (or "square" on a battlemat), it will...

I think the updated Core PH should have the spells necessary to fulfill the existing class/subclass fantasies. There are a lot of melee spellcasters, so there should be a decent variety of such spells to enable those builds. Here are what I feel are good parameters: If a previously printed...

Jack Black and Kyle Gass in Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny. Star Lord Kung Fu Hustle haas Stephen Chow and a lot of other dance bards. But this villain...: How many Disney Princesses are bards that charismatically sing their way into everyone's hearts?

Is a Dance Bard able to be fun and functional in melee? Or is the unarmed fighting more like a ribbon ability? While Capoeira also sounds fun, I am imagining an incredible double-jointed dubstep pop and lock master who delivers beatbox-laced beatdowns.

You know? I'd actually love that. Let people buy it on DDB first, get the errata figured out, implement errata and physically publish them, then update the DDB copies to have the errata too. But that would take too long to implement and 2024 sales would suffer. They need the money in 2024...

Fair! At least for third book. ;)

I don't understand what it is you are saying. Replacing biological "essentialism" with social classism? Can you provide clarity? Using simple words so I can understand? At first blush, I feel like clarifying that I don't see PCs as real people, rather as narrative constructs to base stories...

I think tie-ins are good if they have good timing and messaging. I wasn't making an argument to support not doing tie-ins, rather I just pointed out that is likely why we sometimes see parallel development between paper releases and some microtransaction-based digital releases because someone...