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I’ve never seen that happen. That’s wild.

God no please. The most concrete skills should get us how they were in 4e, and even that is too specific and thus restricted. I despise trying to do something that makes sense in the game and being stopped by, “Well the skill doesn’t list that as something you can do.” So the hell what??

So let’s say my game has a unique creation story that informs all of my world building, the nature of all beings, especially the adversarial beings that threaten everything, and underpins how magic works and what it even is in the world. Do you want to know about it, as a player? Do you read...

You definitely could, but even if not you can just give them a buff to Animal Handling and Summon Beast as a free spell. Sure you can. That would be a perfectly good class feature. so don’t give those spells to wizards. It’s fine with Druids and rangers share spells.

It was one of my favorites too. And no amount of power will make me like the 5e version. I despise it. Ranger was my other favorite 3.5 class. I wish they had used it and the 4e Essentials Ranger classes (NOT the PHB Ranger) as the blueprints for 5e, but moved it further into expert territory...

I just built a 5e Slayer that takes my old 2014 Asdassin class and remakes it as a better (imo) 2024 Ranger class.

I do think that the Ranger fits the “expert” umbrella more than the “warrior” umbrella, though, in modern gaming. Aragorn was a fierce warrior, and “thief” types weren’t, but that just isn’t a part of the Tolkien DNA that is still prominently in modern gaming, where Warriors are front liners...

Simple. It has a community of fans, and it’s still worth messing around with for creators after it’s initial release.

Yeah I’d make them resistant instead of immune, and make the poison be a thing they can do. Or ditch the poison and make them have advantage to end grapples and be able to stick to any flat surface.

Well that just isn’t true. Since when do clerics have a remit of spreading their god’s faith? Defend the faithful, fight the forces that the god opposes (lie fiends and undead and servants of evil gods), maybe lead the faithful in an ecclesiastical sense, but…5e certainly doesn’t make “convert...

I also might make a Star Wars hack if my group enjoys the game enough.

I have a setting where the world orbits a sun that orbits the World Tree, and there is a big festival when the worlds align to make Yggdrasil fill the sky from the perspective of the northern hemisphere, and so people from across the world and beyond pilgrimage, some for over a year, to one of...

I like it

It’s been discussed quite a lot in the last decade. There is a sage advice answer IIRC about how while dragons fly magically, their flight is magical but not Magical, and explains the distinction, because 5e doesn’t do the “Supernatural which is totally not technically magical” thing.

I kinda want to try writing up my own settings as a collection of frames and environments.

Okay, but in D&D 5e magic Is used how I’m using it. In most contexts it is, but most relevantly 5e uses it that way. Unicorns and dragons are magical, they just aren’t the type of magic that is affected by anti-magic stuff, for instance. Fairies are magical but they don’t stop flying in the...

That isn’t accurate, regardless of what you meant. I didn’t correct what you meant, I stated that what you meant is incorrect. Supernatural powers are all magic, just as all EM wavelengths are energy. Magic just means supernatural powers, effects, or states of being. That’s all Magic is...

In the same way that spell like abilities are basically spells, sure. It doesn’t have to be presented in the same way, and the presentation matters. presenting it like the monk’s Focus features gives the impression of foundational class features that give you new actions you can always do...

It’s more like “all light is energy.”

I wonder, if strain or HP as a resource aren’t options, would you be down for using the Monk as a model? Specifically the 2024 Monk. So, you can send a telepathic message and receive a reply as a bonus action for free, or spend focus to make a link or read surface thoughts/emotions. Move...