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Me: I think a Witcher would be a martial character who has supernatural powers but doesn't use spells. Everyone: why don't you play a [insert gish class/subclass] with [insert spell list]? Me: what part of "doesn't use spells" was not understood? I want a martial class that has overt...

Yes, hence why the flavor is on point but the mechanics still shows 1e Pathfinder-level design notes.

All we've done is argue that Nietzsche was wrong about the objective truth.

BH is very fiddly, mostly because you have so many pools of stuff to track (brands, rites, hemo craft) and you are doing damage to yourself to use them. Flavorful? You betcha! Fun? Depends how much you like juggling resources. But what BH excels at his feeling magical without needing to give...

I get why people are upset psionics is essentially just a caster, but a small part of me gets that it's going to be a lot easier to slot in without all of a sudden having to make sure a portion of the treasure in your game comes in psi crystals and other usable stuff for your psion player.

Witcher is far better emulated by Bloodhunter, which is basically the spell less magical martial everyone wants, but slightly over designed mechanically and coated in an edgelord candy shell. If Jeremy and Chris could take a pass over the class to make a 2024 version and add some KISS to it, I...

This was kinda a problem with the 3.5 psion as well. The issue was since psionics overall were considered an add-on and not part of the base game, the DM had to consciously add them for the psionic character and it seemed to stand out. Enemy starts using psionics? This fight is for Bob. Found a...

Primal + arcane would be a witch

Ranger is a warrior/expert/primal caster.

Artificer feels more like a Rogue/wizard hybrid. Or, or did. We'll see what the 24 version looks like when it finally is released.

They are now magical weapons that and not something that you buy from the PHB. I think I get where they were going. You don't see creatures that have resistance to fire or cold unless it's from a magical source. You either resist fire or you don't. But resistance to slashing is dependent on...

This is my biggest complaint to the removal of conditional resistance. Werewolves lose the classic silver bullet. But again, I think they were aiming to remove silver and adamantine weapons except as magical gear, hence the removal of that and Regen. Doesn't mean I have to like it

Creatures who had resistance to magic bps (basically bps that could not be overcome with a magic weapon) kept resistance to bps. What's gone is conditional immunity based on magical weapons or (rarely) materials like silver and adamantine. It's all swords or none.

So apparently, resistance to non-magical weapons was overvalued in 2014 as being a multiplier on HP. Thing is, it's pretty rare to fight creatures and not have a magic way to damage them, which made them far weaker than their CR indicated. So when they removed it, they replaced it with more...

Much like how a paladin has been a fighter/cleric. Very good.

If I was going to do assassin as a base class, I'd make it explicitly supernatural to separate it from the Rogue. Like walk through walls, turn into shadow, teleporting and summoning blades of darkness supernatural from level 1. Not necessarily a spellcaster, but definitely magical. The problem...

Perhaps "best" here should mean "most clearly focuses on it's intended play style." 4e was divisive because it did only one thing (tactical skirmish combat) and it did it well, to the detriment of all other things. And while that's not what I want out of D&D, I don't think that saying 4e handled...

The only way they didn't was because (in 3e, where powers have levels akin to spells) was because they removed automatically scaling with caster level to something resembling 5es system, so you were constantly burning more points on powers to augment. But even then, the ability to spam small...

AND YET people demand psionics run on that exact system rather than slots... 🙄

I mean, that's every franchise that has lived long enough to have eras: Star Wars, Marvel comics, Doctor Who, etc.