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Oh, and it would be called Daggers and Darkness lol

OK, at the high level. Shadowdark Reactions, Random Encounters, XP system (Downtime, not just Carousing), Darkness Matters, the concept that you are your class at level 1, Gear slots. Roll to Cast. Background and assumed skills. Daggerheart Ancestry and Community design, the Hope/Fear mechanic...

I just got back to town, I have some notes in my book, I'll add tonight.

I think Daggerheart and Shadowdark solve so many of D&Ds current problems, that the unholy love child of all 3 just needs to exist.

Or the great versions in other games (Shadowdark and Daggerheart)

The last several years are all kind of a blend (is this what getting older is?) but yeah, it seems we are firmly in the golden age of RPGs.

I prefer the idea that they are not special, but can become so.

Bingo. For a system like 5e, figure it out, there is no mechanics anyway.

For a 6e, I believe some assumptions of D&D need to be maintained, especially for the "5e was my first D&D" cohort. Ancestry, Class, Subclass, Feats, is how I would do it.

Upon further review.

If I was a Hasbro shareholder I'd be alarmed. Spaceballs had this figured out how long ago? GI Joe? Transformers? Big yikes.

Yeah, lesson learned.

You are, you did so on the last page, and then you accused me of it instead, while I simply pointed out that in a game with multiple gods, alignments, and cosmic forces maybe 'its all love' is not the singular option you made it out to be. If a mod wants to declare that I'm at fault here and...

Anyway, I think Daggerheart, or any game that leans more into the narrative is going to handle this obviously better than 5e/5.5, because its systems have a built in mechanism which is just woefully underdeveloped in D&D if it exists at all.

My man, I think you are smarter than this. I'm not the one cheering for absolutes and a singular way.

Please point to the post that said this at all. I did not, in any way do so.

I realize that religion, relationships, Gods, and the totality of human history is messy and a lot more nuanced then one singular view.

Exactly. Imagine if the only stories told or pushed where ones of loving relationships, heroic hero's doing heroic deeds with good in their hearts, and the cheering of the morally correct. ...

Saying that the only relationship in a Cleric/God is based on love? Yeah, that is a singular narrow view on what could be possible. Not to say we have a multitude of positve examples from old faiths, but when I think of Clerics and certainly dont think of the possible Gods as one of a...