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i've come to the conclusion for a while now that druid needs it's 'shapeshifter' aspect to be fully split off into it's own thing from it's 'nature caster' core.

separate more avenues of post-character creation customization away from class level/progression, like, is there a good reason why your acquisition of ASI/feats is tied to your specific level of training as a ranger, warlock or whatever rather your character's competency(level) as a whole.

i agree casters need to go down but the two concepts can meet in the middle. if it's a new edition you can build it up from the ground to be less tied to combat.

there's already been some suggestions i agree with, throwing in my own few cents -species to have their mechanical identities strengthened. -class versatile subclasses (i don't mean prestige classes but i do want those too). -some sort of martial system to rival the effectiveness of spells...

all the posts which emphasized what qualifies a railroad as denying the agency given to the players actions during the adventure rather than their lack of buy-in to the premise?

okay perhaps my choice of example was a little poor, what with the diverging parties and storylines, aragorn, gimli and legolas probably got the bulk of the 'intended questline' to fill in the distance from moria to mordor but we all know that the destination was never going to be anything other...

both railroads and linear adventures have a final destination intended and the path to that destination outlined, the difference is that a railroad is more like an extended sequence of scripted cutscenes where your character is basically a passenger in the story and there was only really one way...

mostly because people don't associate those negative connotations with the term sandbox, and some of them are just outright untrue.

i said nothing about the difference being player buy-in, the destination is fixed in both cases, in linear and railroad, but how you get there, what you choose and are able to do at the stations, who you pick up or help along the way, those things matter in a linear adventure. i rather feel...

well as mentioned these things are more of a sliding scale than a black or white situation, but yes, it would at minimum qualify it as less of a railroad in my view.

the way i'd separate it would be that the point of the adventure is going to baldur's gate, you're never not going to go to baldur's gate because that's the whole premise, it's what you signed up for in starting the game up, so complaining that the game doesn't let you go to waterdeep misses the...

the difference between linear and railroad in my eyes is well, a railroad is practically running off of a script: You will Go Here and Meet X, You will Do Y which WILL result in Z happening regardless of how you attempt to solve it, this leads into going to location M where you meet N character...

interesting, not a term i believe i've come across before. my own definition of railroading boils down to 'it's when the GM repeatedly negates or manipulates player choices and actions so that only their chosen outcomes will occur'

slight tangent, i've long thought now that weapons in 5e ought to be split up into three tiers instead of two: simple, martial and expert, but something that just occurred to me is getting additional bonuses on weapons of a lower tier than what you're trained in so that the situation occurs...

at least in tolkien it seemed to make a little more sense given just how much distance seemed to exist between some of the settlements.

maybe it could require a PB threshold similar to how some old edition monsters had a certain level of +X weapon to hit, like 'if you don't have a proficiency bonus of +4 then all attacks/spells/ect have disadvantage to hit this monster' even if the threshold was one behind the expect PB of the...

the minions are a threat, however they're one that is intentionally designed to not last more that a couple of rounds, they chuck out a bunch of damage the first few rounds, they die, and the main threat gets to take centre stage with the party having a large section of their HP or maybe one or...

the concept of the minion template/category to my understanding is not 'here is a weaker variant of the same monster that exists alongside the original' but 'these are the same monsters and you have all become so strong as to be able to dispatch them with a single blow'

i'm aware, but i've only seen the movie version of that scene, i could not slog my way through the books, i tried.

what i got from that scene in the movie was in those first moments the ring was actively trying to influence him, after he had it in his possession it settled down and didn't have a good reason to be blasting full force 'do evil' vibes at him, at which point the resistance starts to factor in...