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OS play isn't clever. But you are weaker You cannot power through obstacles that are supposed to be challenging without it being risky or costly. Modern play gives you power early. It is designed around the idea that you can just nuke or nova the first 2 challenges away because the last ones...

Ranger, Bard, Fighter Not enough for me. If you are going to care about teams exploration and social, you have to balance it. Balanced in 1 pillar, Balanced in 3 pillars, and Balanced across 3 pillars is 3 different designs. Personally I'd nerf language spells and make Ranger and Warlock...

Player skill is when the majority of the solution is derived from elements not intrinsic of the character's elements nor the standard usage of those elements. Pilot vs plane. The OSR mostly relies on players solving problems or dealing with obstacles via elements outside their characters or...

Not fairly nor balanced. For example, ranger has little social power even in A5E because it's still based on 5e where it does not. So you'd have to rejigger a 6/4/0 class with a 6/1/3 class and a 9/1/0 class. Do you make them all 6/3/1? Do you make all classes have a minimum of 2 in...

They can't because historically, those pillars were unbalanced across classes by a WIDE margin. So they'd have to rejigger them and get the community to jive with it.

I'm not saying that someone's first experience is their preference. I'm saying that someone might be okay with an aspect in Shadowdark or Daggerheart but hate it in D&D. And vice versa love it in D&D but hate it in Shadowdark or Daggerheart. And these opinions don't set in until you pass the...

Shadowdark isn't Official D&D. People tend to allow other games to experiment. But D&D? Only the stuff they instantly like

There was some point where somebody said that they would not create new classes unless the setting required. At that point, you can tell that believed that every single kind of character was one of the 12 core phb classes plus artificer. And that artificer only got in because everyone was so...

I think once the designers of five weeks decided that they weren't going to create new classes unless a setting they wanted to print required a class they abandoned diegetic classes. A sorcerer who gets their power from having a dragon ancestor or being around Dragon magic should have spells in...

Too late. They are now so used to 5e they will become resistant to change. They aren't new fans anymore.

They couldn't try harder. The community both won everything to remain the same and be different at the same time. Some people wanted big change. Some people wanted things to say the same just fixed. And some people want a big change but still see the same thing and fix it. 🤷🏾‍♂️

By default if you didn't roll terrible. Cleric could get similar Defenses as a bad roll Fighter but their offense was trash. Assassin was the option. Same offense. Bad defenses.

A little off topic but I kind of like the Playtest of Channel Primal that the playtest had for Druids and would have loved for Rangers and Barbarian to get it. And Barbarian's would have the option of Spirit Beast, Rage, or Wildshape. And to bring it back on topic, I'd be down to splitting...

1e Fighter was the High Stats class. Basically

Never said that there aren't any veterans who converted to 5e who love 5e. I said that the majority of 5e fans never played another edition before 5e or don't remember much from those previous editions to compare it to. According to WOTC, it's 55%+ new money.

Less low level and more low power and low customization. OSR is heavily player skill over character skill and you only get that if characters start with low power, gain power slowly, and have little ability to enhance strength nor cover weaknesses. OSR typically does that by killing or...

5e's success and lack of initial criticism by it's fans was do that half of the customer base had it as their first edition. And a noticeable amount of the "experienced" fans for laps fans who barely pay attention to the old games they used to play so they can little in their memory to compare...

The Playtest wasn't the the issue of 5.5e, Daggerheart, and Draw Steel copied major parts of it. It was mostly presentation and the sacred cows thrown out for balance. After 5e, many people realized why 4e did what it did. Hence why post 2014 dungeon games have a 1e/2e paint to go simpler or...

Not casual. New 3e was in addition that when you're new to the game you really don't know how to abuse it. So when you're new to the game you really didn't run into the balance problems or the optimization problems, or the lack of options issues. But once you get experience in the game and...

The Gnome kings in my setting has Gundams hidden in that environment via illusions.