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Not quite. It's not like the people who want AD&D style play only want levels 1-4 and the people who want 4e style play only want levels 15-20. They want fundamentally incompatible styles of play. Part of the Noble Goal of D&D Next was the vision of someone playing a 1e like Dwarf Fighter...

If we see 6e in 3 years, something has spectacularly failed with 2024. We are looking at another "Hail Mary pass" edition. Five years is still short, but it's possible if 6e is going to be a "5e 2030" release. IE another mostly compatible cleanup. Ten years is most likely the time frame for...

I want 6e to finally free me from recycling fighter vs wizard debates

Yeah, we call that the "d20 system"

Ackshually.... No. It used elements that would be part of 4e (static defense numbers, universal progression) but in most ways was not very 4e. There was no ADEU division of powers. No healing surges. Talent trees instead of powers. While you can see 4e thinking in it, it's clearly not 4e. It's...

I had a player jokingly ask if his PC (a dhampir) drank the blood of the sorcerer, could he get spellcasting ability since sorcery is tied to blood/bloodline. The books are silent on this, so I made a ruling like a DM does. I certainly didn't ban dhampir and/or sorcerer. Ymmv.

You are still asking the system to do a lot in 700 pages if you expect balanced and expansive options. A Tolkien elf is not an Eberron elf. Aragorn and Drizzt are not the same type of rangers. Magic is wildly different in Middle Earth, Hyboria, Greyhawk and Hogwarts (to the point where you can't...

One man's poor decision is another's bedrock foundation.

Yeah, and that's what I would like to avoid for 6e.

I was going to retort how KP has both Midgard and Primeval Thule, but apparently the latter is only published and not designed by KP. Still, that means WotC is the fool for trying to juggle so many at once. Honestly, I almost would prefer one Golarion like D&D setting to 10 distinct ones (even...

Not what I asked. I asked if any 3pp specifically exclude THEIR other material from their settings. Show me a Paizo book that limits what you can use from other Pathfinder books. Or a Kobold Press setting that doesn't allow all the options in Tales of the Valiant. It's easy for a 3pp to tell...

I'm saying Wizards has had a different design ideology since acquiring D&D over 20+: years ago. You might as well be advocating for the return of downwards AC, race/class restrictions or level limits in 6e for as much as hard bans in settings are likely.

If you could magically take TotV and slap the 5.5 PHB cover on it, I guarantee the fan reaction to it would be similar to what actual 5.5 got.

Yeah. TSR essentially designed a stealth new RPG that was both incompatible with AD&D's PHB and yet still required it for the things they didn't want to reprint. Yup. Hard bans are out of style and have been for about two+ decades. The closest WotC got to a hard ban was "no divine power source"...

Personally, I think people would pick every part of them to shreds. A5e and TotV (especially TotV) get a pass because they are NOT WotC.

Yup. The decades before being bought by WotC. TSR did it and they made a lot of other questionable decisions as well. But WotC has never nor do any 3pps.

At best they will give some lip service to DMs discussing with their players what options are available during session zero. Kinda like they are now. Rhetorical question: does any major 3pp company make books that specifically exclude options from their other books? Like a Pathfinder book that...

They sell 4-5 books per year with PC options scattered in them. This year alone they are selling two PC centered books (FRPG and FotA). You really think they are going to create a setting that says "artificers don't exist here, you can safely avoid buying Forge of the Artificer"?

By course a new sea, I think he would want WotC to abandon 50 years of IP that he cares about and create all new stuff he can ignore. Start from scratch.

Again, I'm not asking why DMs would want highly curated, hyper specific settings work limited species, classes and monster, I'm saying WOTC has no reason to nurture that because limited options don't sell splat books. They may give some lip service to DMs customizing their world, but they are...