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I mean, it's objectively worse than a Battlemaster, I think it can be demonstrated. Brutality is: CHA bonus uses/Rest 1/round No inherent damage bonus Bleed = +CHA damage and Sap. Sap = Disadvantage on next 1 attack by target Bluff = Advantage on your next saving throw and Vex. Vex =...

Yup. It's no mistake that slavery didn't really persist in Europe into the Middle ages even though it was common in the Roman era and fairly common in the Dark Ages ("Non Angli sed angeli", Viking use of thralls etc.). You can get pretty much all the major benefits with a much lower management...

Have you got a source for this?

Yeah the only point is it's just going to be opinion-based/white room stuff. There were some long-ago UAs which had much, much larger timeframes? But I suspect WotC found those didn't actually help them all that much, otherwise why change it? Maybe the main value of UA surveys is opinion? Like...

I'd congratulate you for your touch-typing mastery but I guess you won't read it until you're back from A&E! That said I'm not really sure what's wrong with: It's a bit Captain Planet but like, a lot of Druid subclasses are and a lot of D&D subclasses are kinda Saturday morning cartoon. I...

That seems a little dramatic. I don't think having a short deadline will lead to less approval. It will lead to less mechanical examination (which I suspect often means higher approval, not lower), but despite your Hot Take re: "all these suck", actually 3 out of the 4 seem solid and you...

Not really. I don't think it's jarring for any normal people, because many of the most evil regimes in history haven't really been keen slavers, because they used serfdom and/or indentured servitude or corvee labour (that's another good one) instead. You don't have to weird-AF creepy pre-civil...

Yeah what's happening with that "new setting" WotC huh? Didn't they say there was one coming a while back?

If by unique one means "objectively inferior and by a very large amount". Literally it is just a worse Battlemaster with bonus MAD.

I mean I suspect this will be toned-down as hell but there exists a small possibility that WotC, having turned around enough that they already changed their mind on doing Dark Sun, may have decided to go for a least a partially "proper" Dark Sun (probably minus slavery but that's been a given...

Yup. Any except Gladiator. If wanted to do literally all those things, even to RP a Gladiator, I'd just play Battlemaster. Anything this can, it can do better. Without being MAD. The only situation I see Gladiator even maybe making sense is if you were already using CHA as your attack stat, i.e...

RIGHT?!???!?!?!?!?! Jesus lol. To say Dark Sun is "confirmed" is quite an understatement. Which is fascinating, because how long ago was it that someone high-up from WotC (Crawford, Perkins, that other guy who was even above them for a while but left? Not Winninger, the guy WotC made for the...

Last time I tried (a few years ago) that I hadn't played for like, just 2-3 years, and suddenly instead if just being like a space ninja robot who goes to spaceships and bases and hits people with a sword until loot falls out of them, I was a person who owned space ninja suits, as were others...

My immediate thought lol.

I'm just profoundly unconvinced that this actually produces as a better outcome than, I dunno, other systems. Slightly different? Perhaps but better? One thing I don't hear is a lot of like, exceptional praise for Genesys. It's well-regarded but like, moderately so. It's definitely good to get...

Lots of upcoming games announced, one them basically a Voyager "You make the choices" game. I am going to get Paris killed so fast and hopefully I can respond to Neelix with "phasers set to kill". I assume this will lead to me being back in the Alpha quadrant in no time at all!

What a cover! I don't know if I'm Cairn's target audience and I have my hands full with Daggerheart, but what a cover! When they make 6E D&D they seriously need to put in stuff like this. WotC corpo types may not get it, but I think more of this would actually just make people like the game more.

WHAT DID KARLACH EVER DO TO ANYONE?! Good lord! Why are you putting her in with a horrible sarcastic vampire (who is admittedly very funny) and the angriest frog-person in Realms-space? She's a lovely girl! That's like writing about Buffy: "Man I really hate Spike, Tara and The Master"! Like...

My only question here answered, so I can just kind of not care about this and see how good stuff is once it's all out. Thank you.

I am genuinely mystified why WotC-brand 5E seems so strongly opposed to creatures having more than one type. As far as I can tell, absolutely nothing about 5E's rules (2014 or 2024) breaks if you consider creatures to have more than one type. Like, Protection from Evil and Good? If you have the...