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Interesting article, I'm not sure whether anything from WoW necessarily carries over to DnD, but one of the lessons that could be relevant is how WoW made giant improvements recently by starting to actually listen to what players were asking for and actually doing it instead of always trying to...

What they really ought to do is remove the spells that negate "nitty gritty realism" aspects of the game, but then create low level magic items (like common or uncommon let's say) that do the same thing. It would be much easier for a DM to be like "sorry none of the magic shops have a Basket...

Yeah it doesn't do that. The new See Invisibility just lets you see invisible (and hidden) creatures as if they were visible. If you wouldn't see them if they were visible then See Invisibility doesn't help you

Fair question, I'd assume they left it out because it was seen as a "crappy useless feat" by most players, and they figured it wouldn't be missed. Also I think their official position is that Linguist (and anything else not re-printed) is not "removed", it is still eligible to use exactly as...

They don't matter though because low level spells completely negate their purpose. It's like saying that tracking rations matters when Goodberry exists.

I don't think it does. In the current rules, if someone is not hidden but it behind total cover, can you see them? I know you can't target them but not sure whether this means they can or cannot be seen. All that the new See Invisibility does is let you see creatures that were previously...

WotC has no idea what to do with languages, they're kind of like spell components in that they're in the game because they've always been in the game, but they don't really serve any functional purpose or add anything interesting except in rare situations. Languages could be made to offer...

The Rules Glossary defines Ally with several criteria, one of which is "a member of your adventuring party", which when taken literally would include the player character. Common sense would imply that you cannot be your own Ally, but the literal wording of the book implies that you can. So I...

Nick property has many interactions with other abilities that are legitimately confusing as hell, and not just people arguing on forums for the sake of semantics (although it is the internet so yeah, there's some of that too)

I think Pact of the Chain is the confusing wording, in that it looks like they changed it but actually didn't. Previous wording was that you could cast it as a ritual, which would take 1 hour and not use a spell slot. New wording is that can cast it as a Magic Action without a spell slot -...

The wording of Divine Intervention makes it sound like maybe you can cast a spell with a 24 hour cast time (e.g. Hallow) with a single Action. I'm pretty sure though that the wording of Magic Attack supersedes to make it take the entire 24 hour cast time CME scales as +2d8 damage per attack...

Yeah I was wondering the same - maybe Web is intentionally different since it doesn't do damage. I'd much rather they all just work consistently for the sake of making it easier to remember, but it's less overpowered on a spell with no damage

Most weapon masteries say "If you hit a creature with this weapon..." (or Miss in the case of Graze) so would work fine with True Strike Nick is unique in referencing the Attack Action, since it is triggered by attacking with another weapon instead of being triggered by the Nick weapon itself

It's all the same stuff just organized differently, so yeah pick whatever you like

According to this moderator post on DnD Beyond, which is not official but is fairly likely to have originally been written by the same people making official decisions, their guidance for if a player selects an older background not published in 2024 basically becomes exactly the same thing as a...

Throw in Longstrider spell, Haste spell, Boots of Speed, Tabaxi race (if allowed), and this scales to an absurd degree

It's just confusing on its own, where understanding it requires parsing the phrasing in both the Nick property and Light property, and then it can have even more complex nuances when you pair it with Extra Attack, Dual Wielder feat, Two-Weapon Fighting fighting style, Action Surge, Haste spell...

Nick property is going to require an entire document on its own

Without going thru the math specifically, you probably aren't missing anything. Even if what you wrote is wrong somewhere, there's probably another way to do even more damage with Conjure Minor Elementals - the scaling is super busted and WotC was asleep at the wheel when they let it thru.

There is nothing good about only having 16 possible backgrounds and not allowing customization. The only way to be Tough is to be a Farmer that specializes in Animal Handling and Nature? There's literally no other way to be Tough? And Farmers cannot boost Dex, Int, or Cha because obviously...