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Maybe he's just heartbroken that the dagger he "found" on the knight's belt was plunging into the lava. Yeah, yeah that's the ticket...

Remember how in the latest Matrix movie Neo saw himself as cool Keanu Reeves when he looked in the mirror but everyone else saw him as a middle-aged bald man? Maybe that should be done in Dragonlance. So if you want to be a cool badass orc then fine go ahead and make that character but when...

I can't help but wonder if we're going to see a repeat of 4E creating the market for Pathfinder all over again. Or perhaps not. Maybe D&D is currently too big to fail.

I guess I'm in the minority but I actually don't like this change. Yes +10 damage is a big hike but at low levels the -5 often translates to missing entirely and at higher levels the +10 is offset by higher monster HP's and all the high damage ranged attacks that spellcasters get to dish out...

Gotcha.

What is an Expert Class? First mention I've seen of that.

Mechanically it really isn't that different from characters having advantage though since in both scenarios you get two rolls instead of one. Or think about a fighter who levels up and gains a second attack per round. Does that suddenly remove all drama from die rolls now that he permanently...

And a DM can just as easily implement anti-rewards for abusing skill checks. If you hang up on every caller in a real life call center then you aren't going to be rewarded with a raise despite technically having a call time far below the desired metric. So with that in mind if a player says...

I don't know. XP is often tied to killing things but I've never once played or GM'd a campaign where the party was hacking at every random townsperson or wayward traveler they came across because they'd be "rewarded." I think if you're in a group where suddenly everyone starts to try and make...

I actually really like tying Inspiration to natural 20's to reflect that extra confidence that can accompany such a resounding success because it makes it an objective occurrence rather than relying on the DM to arbitrarily hand it out based on role-playing. The existing method has resulted in...

Touché!

That isn't toxic masculinity it's just toxic idiocy.

I can't imagine that it's anywhere near as bad as the NuTSR stuff.

I'm now tempted to pick up 5E Spelljammer just due to the fact that it has its own versions of Yazirians, Dralasites, and Vrusk untainted by this "NuTSR" crap.

Agreed, and such characters don't even have to be wholly unique, just rare enough that they would have gone under the radar for all previous wars, novels, and what have you. Gilthanas already broke the "wizards must take the test rule" in official game materials and novel canon, so the...

I take it you didn't care for Margaret Weis' "Doom Brigade/Kang's Regiment" books in the 90's then? ;)

Definitely a wise move to offer it to the Nova Corps rather than trying to wield those rules yourself, lol.

Agreed. What I'm hoping is that the Mass Combat mechanics greatly streamline the ability to conduct major battles in order to more easily keep them contained as the "backdrop" to those elements you state above (highlighted in bold.) It's a lot easier to keep things like Destiny and Romance at...

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that you can't complain about or dismiss anything that they do going forward. I'm just throwing out precedents with other IP's in other media that they could attempt to emulate that would allow them to theoretically have the best of all worlds (no pun...