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I'm a bit late in replying to these posts, but this is a part of 5e's design that's really interesting to me. The convention that everybody gets power spikes at the change of tier levels--5th, 11th, and 17th--felt really elegant to me since I read about it in a blog back at the beginning of...

So, I'm no expert, as I wasn't playing (or alive) in the heyday of OD&D, but my understanding is that domain play was on its face the sensible way for high level games to go, based on the way D&D was originally played. If you're in a player-directed west marches sandbox style game with the...

I'll meet you halfway. I don't think either of those features needs to be limited to prof. uses per day, considering that flying PC races already exist (I initially read vestigial wings to be an at will feature and was then disappointed upon realizing my mistake). Even were I to concede that...

Agreed. It's a cool mechanic when there is one prof. per day feature that you track for your subclass. Tracking them for a race and a feat as well would be needlessly fiddly. It might not be a big problem in practice since they're all opt in, but its definitely inelegant. It always seemed...

...well. I'm a bit late to the thread, but I read it all the way through so hell if I'm not gonna post. Apologies to those of you whom I quote, that haven't posted in the thread since two weeks ago. @Steampunkette opens with a post which is maybe needlessly inflammatory but that, to me...

Anubis 15-2=13 Athena 14 Odin 11+1=12

Anubis 33-2=31 Athena 34 Odin 20+1=21

yikes, boccob, ill fix that

Wow! That never occurred to me. It's a pretty good list, tbh. (and props for correcting to 'acrobat')

Anubis 31 Athena 36 Boccob 1-2=0 Odin 32+1=33 Selune 9

As I've said earlier in the thread, 6 classes isn't meant to be any kind of ideal number, it's a strange place in between the 3 classes of od&d and the 12 classes of 5e. That's what makes it a "challenge." So how would you get from the core 4 classes to 6 classes that are interesting and/or...

Lol, nice surprise torpedo. I always appreciate your humor. To be honest, though, that is a very insightful cultural observation.

I like the term "savant" or even "specialist" better than expert, but I also kidof prefer to keep the archetype that the word "rogue" suggests, "an appealingly mischievous person." Ya, "warrior" always sounded like the obviously better name to me. What's interesting is that the od&d name of...

That's a fair point. I bristle a little bit when people from the ancient past are declared "evil", especially if they were, more or less, above average by the standards of their time. I also thought I should provide some breadcrumbs to follow, regarding the Romans, if anyone on the boards is...

On topic: I don't like including dragons. Something about their faux-ecological color types and profusion of age-based statblocks makes them feel banal and joyless to me--even if dragons like Smaug, Fafnir, and Glaurung are super cool in principle. Off topic: Man, there's a surprising amount...

I don't think you made a very good case that it is "imperative" for WotC to publish Greyhawk. (haters gon' hate, internet pedants gon' go after your word choice) I understood your main arguments on the point to be the following: I basically agree with all of those points but, apart from the...

I completely agree. Most of the compelling creatures informed by longstanding archetypes are covered in any edition's first monster book. Monsters in subsequent or third-party books tend to be extremely specific, modifications on tropes that are already covered, or ridiculous D&Disms. They're...

Curious. I have never played Elder Scrolls Online or even really read anything about it, but that's more or less the list I came up with: Warrior = martial heavy Rogue = martial light Wizard = arcane/high magic Thaumaturge = holy/divine Enchanter ~= nature/fey/green Diabolist =...

Agreed. Yeah, considering the Cleric's weird and gamist origins as a sort of a gish class that didn't get spells at 1st level and gained spell levels slower than a Magic User, the 5e Paladin and Cleric feel like they took that starting point, kept very similar theming, and went in different...

Man, thanks for the great and varied responses guys--one departing drastically from precedent and another doubling down on it. Thanks for being a good sport, it's all just a creative exercise in the end. I like the list of classes you ended with even though the class names weren't your...