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i'm not talking about simply 'a better made longsword' but in the same way that martial weapons deal bigger damage amounts, have more properties and imply to require more training than simple weapons have a category above martial weapons, if that hobgoblin's 'somehow 2d8' longsword was instead a...

out of curiosity, what did you end up swapping it for? honestly i think if the armour tables had been distributed differently chain shirt could've actually 'served a purpose', so if we'd had: Medium ArmourACStrengthStealth Hide12+DEX(+2)-- Ring Mail14STR 11Disadvantage Chain...

The fact that gear choice can become so, quite literally derivative, is such a failure to me. I feel all equipment should have SOME some sort of niche to fill where there’s a reason to pick it over anything else.

my desire is less about scaling damage(although that does contribute) and more about establishing another distinct 'grade' of weaponry, i feel that the current weapon options are all a bit, well, there's not a ton of diversity in the weapons used (i've seen a flowchart meme for what weapon...

while i don't object to the concept of custom lineage it's execution is far too shallow to my liking to be able to sufficiently model various species with enough nuance to my satisfaction, however i would also note that i also consider some of the designed species to be a bit light on mechanical...

the hobgoblin longsword issue just tells me that 5e/5.5e needs a larger selection of weapons and/or weapon traits and properties, i'd be down for an 'expert' tier of weapons above the current martial category.

i feel like Zelda and the Final Fantasy franchises have to be big influences?

i mean, if you have a genuine chance to not notice it and take damage i'd file that under 'a risk of cost'

i think a trap that it is possible to be disabled without cost or at least a risk of cost has failed to serve it's purpose, if the players can safely disable it from a distance then great! but if they can do that with zero expenditure every time then it might as well not even be there as an...

it might BE magic in DnD but i'm saying there's no reason it HAS TO BE. the grit of my teeth and a steel will.

i don't get what about the premise of rage or focus themselves actually requires them to be any sort of supernatural effect, sure there might be subclasses which come with supernatural effects but the abilities themselves not so much, battle frenzy is a thing, self discipline is a thing, they...

this post was going so well for me and then that final paragraph came along, i don't know why martials can't just be the farmer's kid who came from the long line of ordinary folk and still be extraordinary and influential without the crutch of the supernatural coming along to justify how they...

seems like a counter-intuitive solution of making money matter to PCs: make someone else deal with paying for things?

it's a shame that it's not 'my skill makes it so that any blade i wield is as dangerous as the blade of valor'

i want to point out here, that in MCU and DC, they're at least trying to keep up the pretence that they are on our earth, that batman and black widow are just people like any who you could meet in any street, maybe it's a parallel dimension where magic exists but fundamentally the setting...

while i don't mind martial characters picking up the odd magic item here of there i really hate the idea of them being used to substitute for their entire progression, it's telling them 'no, you can't manage by yourself, you can't manage it with your own strengths, you need these handicaps given...

considering martials tend to lean more into passive/resourceless boons here's how i might equate some of those to what a fighter might get, Quick Step(passive) - base movespeed +10ft Athletic(passive) - double your height and distance when calculating jumping, gain a climb and swim speed equal...

when i discuss 'high level mundane martials' it's more about being mundane in the nature of the actions they take rather than the scale of them, no matter if a fighter manages to strike a foe eight times in six seconds with their sword they're still fundamentally only just hitting them with a...

yes, lots of rules and limits on how you use spellcasting, but the point being made is there are few-to-no limits on what magic can actually be used to achieve in DnD. there are plenty of media where magic has things it can't do, so why isn't DnD held to those examples? magic can't create food...

And the fact it was never a problem in either of those types of game speaks volumes to me on how little value or purpose it likely actually served in them. if wealth was actually worthwhile you would have an active reason to desire it, you would want to track it because how much you had and...