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Yeah I mean the bolded sentence is really it isn't it? Dark Sun is already, by default, I would argue, basically a Hopepunk setting, because the assumption in 2E always was that the PCs would be basically good guys, fighting bad guys, and specifically the Sorcerer-Kings, which naturally leads...

Please man don't accidentally reignite the whole endless "illusionism" insanity this board went through long ago (I'm guessing you weren't here for that). Please don't call that gaslighting. Please don't call it illusionism. Just please no negative terminology for that, even if you mean it...

Unfortunately I agree. Your reasoning is sound. "Monkey people" as a concept should have basically been this to WotC: 10 racism danger zone red flags out of 10 But... somehow they just went ahead and gave them a "slave race given intelligence by a slaver and then rescued by outside...

I think it's the selectiveness of the explanations being needed which is an issue, and the broad passes given to some classes. Like, I do not think "It's arcane magic bro" should allow Wizards/Sorcerers/Warlocks/Bards a free pass to do absolutely any magical thing, yet it does. Equally, "It's...

The fact that you agree they need fixing and for the same reason very clearly illustrates that they are in fact reasonable and relevant points and not totally unrelated "whataboutisms" :)

To this daring suggestion I can only offer Kenny Loggins' immortal words: In short maybe don't ever ever for any reason don't do it ever ever ever compare orcs, a race that has been long-associated with racism with muls a race that has been long associated with American South-style slavery and...

Yeah and in DH as you know, your base Proficiency (which obviously is damage-related in that, but still) is literally the same number as your Tier. I suspect at some point in 5E's design it was the same as Tier but that it got expanded out for some mechanical or psychological reason. In 4E they...

Bro that's clearly what we call in this business "an opinion". It's not even stated LIKE it's a fact, whereas opinions often are and thus that request is more viable.

So long as it's not "magic" and there's no implication it's magic, but rather some extremely ill-defined "internal energy" or the like, and it's PHB class, that'd probably be good. Honestly I think at this point, we need to just delete the Monk class entirely for the sake of D&D. There's no...

To be fair I don't think a level 1-3 Fighter should have distance cutting stuff either! In fantasy where this happens, this is something really experienced or really spiritually powerful weapon-wielders can do. I would say like, level 7 or 8 is where you'd probably seeing it, in current 5E...

Yeah and would make a good option/dial/setting for a 6E I think.

I mean, if we're talking fantastical, the idea that a Fighter can in well under six seconds (from level 5 onwards) potentially kill or maim four different people in four different directions with four different attacks (each potentially having a different Battlemaster rider on them!), rising to...

Yeah and worth noting this sort of thing would probably be an actual limited ability, not just at will distance chops unless that was the entire "deal" your subclass has. Like, maybe you can do it Proficiency bonus times per rest when you make an attack. Oh yeah speaking of which: If 6E...

But should they never cut bamboo, a small tree or even a mast in half from range? This is something that happens routinely in some fantasy fiction (not just anime/manga, but those and videogames are the main fantasy referents for gen Z I would suggest, and gen Z and younger millennials are the...

Yeah sorry I'm talking about the Monk "Focus" thing in 2024 specifically - how it could be a resource for a Fighter-like class to do crazy stuff as well.

Yes the 9 abilities thing? Fine, and indeed is an extremely well-tested design element across videogames and boardgames and so on. What was a problem was both those abilities increasing in complexity, and monsters increasing in complexity, and the the goddamn initiative system, which whilst...

I don't want to be mean to designers here, but it is striking that certain aspects of D&D, especially in 3E and 5E (4E was pretty wild) seem like they do reflect the limitations of imagination and relevance on the part of the designers pretty harshly. 3E had LFQW, which was absolutely both...

I mean, he factually is not. Not even "roughly". That's the issue. He's not even close. He's not in the same ballpark. Your son I'm sure is a cool guy, but can he put on an entire suit of full plate in 5 minutes flat and move in it perfectly? Does he know how to competently and effectively...

4E would have been better if it had Ultimates honestly, that like, weren't just Dailies but something some kind of meta-resource charged up. I feel like maybe you got something similar to that with the 2nd or 3rd tier stuff but it's been a long time so I don't recall.

No question. There's always a long chain of inspiration, and fantasy authors are wildly disproportionately likely to have read other, longer-ago fantasy authors. But... a lot haven't. Like, especially look at YA Fantasy or Romantasy which are huge genres - like, how many younger 20-somethings...