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Yeah, but its an open discussion on closing the gap. Which can be closed either way I still think the easiest way is just "Level 5 is the maximum normal humans ever reach" to just give the 'This is the stage you are absolutely hitting everything is supernatural levels', but, other things to...

Its a popular archetype that, if doing it, people will ask for it immediately. The thing to remember when we're at this whole magical argument is that D&D is a high fantasy, high magic game where crashed space-ships, ancient ruins a plenty, time travel, space travel, planer travel, the works I...

I'll defo fight on some of those as there's gaps they fill. Fighter will never be able to fill the sheer mass of wuxia that the monk has, and a pal of mine, every time I brought up folks saying the cleric should be merged into the druid, has laughed and called everyone who thought so crazy...

Did they really 'use' the gods or just slip them in as cameos? It gave them stats but the only ones who really got love to them were the Norse and Olympic crews, while everyone else was 'yeah they're around I guess' Also to just. Go off on one of my tangents about older D&D... Ah, so the...

So good news, not too many. The standard 6, but there's the variant Gemstone dragons who are each an equivilent of the standard ones but with differing breath weapons and alignments. Crystal, Onyx, Jade, Sapphire, Ruby and Brown (Noted as Brown/Amber in the Rules Cyclopia, but just Brown in...

Oh, I'm all for unrealistic. My games (if I could ever get another one running....) very much run on rule of cool. Just a lot of this thread ties into realism and applying realism to D&D has unexpected side effects Thing is, D&D as written doesn't really make itself out to be realistic. A high...

4E's Brown is the Sand dragon from 3E, so the more salt-based Yellow didn't get replaced. As distinct from the other Yellow dragon who just, hasn't shown up I might have some obscures. Dragon magazine 38 had a completely different Yellow, Orange and Brown dragon that don't seem to be listed...

Only 2 of the Rilmani made it to 3E so its hardly a change. Problem is when you start shoving in the other variants you've got a whole bunch of creatures who are way too same-y, because the various RIlmani at least are so absolutely bland and the same. Which, yeah, works for 'neutrality' but...

(I know this is a bit off-topic but I think ties squarely into the 'we can't use real life comparisons' topic going on because...) For a giant to function they would need some new form of matter completely unknown to science. No metals we know of would allow a human-sized mecha to exist alone...

The problem is the wizard chassis doesn't work for those other ones. They have their different casting and different sub-class designs, with warlocks in particualr being one of the best received ones, especially compared to wizard. Mechanically there's enough differentiation there that putting...

There was an old dynamic gnoll model for NWN, so I've given 'em a shot .... Someone really should fix that model up for the newer armor sets though, huh.

Given how WoW is these days, functionally a properly played spellcaster is effectively on this. Mana loss only comes up on ones who don't have it as their role needing to grab heals when doing a non-healing role. Used to be more of an issue but not nowerdays The thing is in Warcraft your mage...

Berserk alone is one of the more influential ones out there. It pretty much popularised the 'warrior with dark armor using a greatsword' and was a massive influence on stuff like Dark Souls. Plus, D&D's taken from anime in Spelljammer at least, Spirit Warriors are just Aura Battlers. I'd argue...

I think this ultimately is the reason Half Elves are getting removed. On a mechanical and conceptual level they, by definition, run into overlap with humans and elves, so it makes the default player options less interesting or diverse. Especially given the Big D&D things around tend to go for...

I really do hate the static unchanging Planes of D&D history so I'm all for it, but I hate actual real life deities being shoved in because why not more so I'm of the 'don't use IRL deities' train I went through a readthrough of Legends and Lore recently and maaaan some of it was bad. Also...

Don't threaten me with a good time

I mean, you're welcome to give it a shot if you reckon you can out logistics me. Goes for like a buck on Steam. Here's Hard, here's Normal, here's Easy. Regardless though, the gameplay loop that should be rewarded is the one that is the most enjoyable. You can certainly do a lot of logistics...

Is that really highly skilled, though? Like. I am skilled at video games. I hold three world records. My skill doesn't come from counting what I have, it comes from the execution of how to play it, my experience playing it, my knowledge of how to handle bad situations and compensate on the fly...

One one hand I need to poke at how they did their Firbolg, as I'm trying to get 5E style ones over to NWN (because 1-3E style Firbolgs are as easy as 'rescale human' which. I already got that for other giants and titans) but then I cackled at the Hyur, Elezen, Roe and Garleans

I hardly think its a 4e-ism. Its how the game's always been like this because its genre fiction and not trying to emulate real life, even back in AD&D. Like, I'm not even counting the "Rules as written, your regular fighter dude can easily just recruit the services of an elephant-eating giant...