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As noted above: It would be like asking a flautist to separate right hand movements and breathing, and practice only those skills, and then, separately and five minutes delayed, practice left hand movements and embouchure. Like...that's theoretically a thing they could physically do...but it...

Not necessarily, or at least, the problem is that you have boiled a multifaceted thing down to only one dimension, which destroys the important details where the differences can add up. Consider, for example, a Wizard class, designed to break the unfortunate 3E-derived "spellcasters rule...

While I do love the Avenger, I personally think it merits its own, separate class, if it's going to be included at all. Its focus is different, because of the Divine angle. I do, however, think that both the Avenger and the Assassin are good examples of classes which should be supernatural, but...

It really isn't. And most of the people in this conversation seem to agree that it isn't. Again, it really well and truly is not. Your experience is so radically divergent from what even I--who have a lot of difficulties with social stuff--have ever faced, it genuinely borders on "this person...

I liked the idea from 4e of "Shrouds" you could apply to targets, and think that could be expanded into a more diverse set of options, including skill check effects and movement or location stuff. Like, say you have a Ninja subclass of Assassin. They could mark a location with their Shroud...

I did like the Binder/Vestiges concept, and that could be used to bring back the D&D Next playtest Warlock, which was a really neat idea. (TL;DR: It was VERY invocation-based, albeit not by that name...and every invocation-like thing you took actually had a visible cost, e.g. Devil's Sight would...

Exactamundo. A swordmage is a character for whom swordplay is magic, and magic is swordplay. To separate the two would be like asking a flautist to separate their left hand and breathing from their right hand and embouchure: ridiculous, and more importantly pointless.

I'm not the one who made a statistical claim; if you don't actually know that a majority is doing something, saying "Lots of people, the majority in fact, buy supplements", then why use that word? "The majority in fact" would indicate that there is a fact you are stating.

So you don't actually have anything beyond "I'm pretty sure"?

You have the numbers to back up this "majority" claim, yes? You can prove that every supplemental book for 5.0 was bought by a majority of people who had bought the core books?

If I had had even the slightest success with getting 3PP material while playing 5e, I would take this much more seriously. It's not players who insist on "WotC has to make it". It's GMs. Specifically 5e GMs, and their hyperconservative attitude toward this kind of content unless they...

Well, at least in my personal understanding of it, Druids deal with the essences in nature: raw elemental forces, beasts and their characteristics, weather, that sort of thing. Shaman deal with the consciousnesses in nature. "All that is, is alive." Everything has some kind of consciousness in...

Don't kid yourself. The vast majority of players who prefer "simplicity" are never going to buy first-party supplements. Because every single one of those supplements is, necessarily, guaranteed, always adding complexity. Full stop. If people prefer simplicity, they're never going to step...

Very, very much too late, yes. The concept has taken on a life of its own beyond D&D, and that now feeds back into D&D. Folks expect a "Druid" to be someone who can shapeshift. That this is a pigeonholing of those abilities, when they could otherwise have fit into a bigger and more thematically...

Yes, because new classes in supplemental books that those players who love simplicity would never buy are such a monumental threat. Pull the other one.

Why not? Like legit. Why not? And even if that's true, who cares? Dragonborn weren't a common thing before 4e put them front and center. Now, they're the most popular non-human, non-elf race, at least based on the last time we got any data on the subject from DDB. And that is?

You'd think that this would be a bizarre response, but I've seen several people take that stance. As though anyone playing a support-focused character is somehow stealing your achievements simply because they're helping. Unless it's magic. Magic is fine! Who cares about magic doing precisely...

In fact, I can name at least six subclasses, only four of which arise from 4e directly. Tactical, Resourceful, and Bravura are the classic three--but then we also bring in the Skirmishing Warlord, which focuses on being a ranged attacker, not melee. Fifth is Knight-Enchanter, a spell-focused...

Warlord. Instant no brainer. It would be an inarguable olive branch to a community that has, more than once, felt pretty damn snubbed by 5e, and would have various other benefits as well. I agree with @Mistwell that Swordmage is also a reasonable choice, given the game has tried so many times...

While this is a question worth asking, it's not a particularly difficult one to answer. Perhaps the character just felt called to do it--maybe they saved someone's life and now feel that, since they can save lives, they need to do so. Great power and great responsibility. Or, for a religious...