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I just built a 5e Slayer that takes my old 2014 Asdassin class and remakes it as a better (imo) 2024 Ranger class.

I do think that the Ranger fits the “expert” umbrella more than the “warrior” umbrella, though, in modern gaming. Aragorn was a fierce warrior, and “thief” types weren’t, but that just isn’t a part of the Tolkien DNA that is still prominently in modern gaming, where Warriors are front liners...

Simple. It has a community of fans, and it’s still worth messing around with for creators after it’s initial release.

Yeah I’d make them resistant instead of immune, and make the poison be a thing they can do. Or ditch the poison and make them have advantage to end grapples and be able to stick to any flat surface.

Well that just isn’t true. Since when do clerics have a remit of spreading their god’s faith? Defend the faithful, fight the forces that the god opposes (lie fiends and undead and servants of evil gods), maybe lead the faithful in an ecclesiastical sense, but…5e certainly doesn’t make “convert...

I also might make a Star Wars hack if my group enjoys the game enough.

I have a setting where the world orbits a sun that orbits the World Tree, and there is a big festival when the worlds align to make Yggdrasil fill the sky from the perspective of the northern hemisphere, and so people from across the world and beyond pilgrimage, some for over a year, to one of...

I like it

It’s been discussed quite a lot in the last decade. There is a sage advice answer IIRC about how while dragons fly magically, their flight is magical but not Magical, and explains the distinction, because 5e doesn’t do the “Supernatural which is totally not technically magical” thing.

I kinda want to try writing up my own settings as a collection of frames and environments.

Okay, but in D&D 5e magic Is used how I’m using it. In most contexts it is, but most relevantly 5e uses it that way. Unicorns and dragons are magical, they just aren’t the type of magic that is affected by anti-magic stuff, for instance. Fairies are magical but they don’t stop flying in the...

That isn’t accurate, regardless of what you meant. I didn’t correct what you meant, I stated that what you meant is incorrect. Supernatural powers are all magic, just as all EM wavelengths are energy. Magic just means supernatural powers, effects, or states of being. That’s all Magic is...

In the same way that spell like abilities are basically spells, sure. It doesn’t have to be presented in the same way, and the presentation matters. presenting it like the monk’s Focus features gives the impression of foundational class features that give you new actions you can always do...

It’s more like “all light is energy.”

I wonder, if strain or HP as a resource aren’t options, would you be down for using the Monk as a model? Specifically the 2024 Monk. So, you can send a telepathic message and receive a reply as a bonus action for free, or spend focus to make a link or read surface thoughts/emotions. Move...

How do you feel about scaling by Spellcasting check? Ie, there is a minimum result, and thresholds of your check, upgrading as you hit higher thresholds.

Niche protection, sure. I’m fine with that.

I kinda get why some folks don’t like spirit mediums as psionic characters but like…they’re psychics. Telekenesis, energy manipulation, telepathy, empathy, psychic divination, and spirit medium abilities, are the archetype. I know modern science fiction drops some stuff, often all but the...

Abjuration seems like a more distinctly appropriate fit than most schools. Hell, I’d put it above scrying. I mean leave out the healing spells, but IMO they shouldn’t be Abjuration anyway. But Shield is right beside Catapult on the “5e spells that feel telekenetic” IMO. And while I get...

I mean, if you don’t they’re just nerfed wizards, which has vastly less place in the game than “psychic wizard” does. Because wizards can already do all the Psionic stuff, and stuff comic book characters can’t do. So instead focus on what psionics can do differently, how they can interact...