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Eh, I'd argue the other: Nerf the casting and go more in on the shapeshifting. Shapeshifting is The druid thing these days and what people will be drawn to the class to do. Sure, nature magic is important, but shapeshifting is of equal importance. People want to specifically be a creature and be...

Not even in the fun way like that Michaelsoft Binbows was (the funny internet image that was actually a cheap PC parts store in Japan. "Binbo" means "Cheap")

As long as polymorph can do the whole "Dive into every source you have to transform an opponent", Druid has to have something comparable. The class that goes all in on shapeshifting should always be the best shapeshifter

There's enough stories like that around I've heard it said, plus the absolute classic from Dragon magazine of that guy who killed most everyone in Oerth and wanted to know how much XP he got from the murders. But XP specifically comes from those things then leads to this thing where, yeah, first...

I'm going to argue against this because, Risky Mission B is as much of a milestone as Risky Mission A is. Someone applying it as milestone XP should be giving it on both situations, not just situation A. How is that a hard-coded milestone? DM just goes "Yeah, you've completed the appropriate...

Just on the templates questions, my issue with it isn't the templates. My issue with it is the entire existence of Polymorph, which we haven't seen any real discussion on so far and if its staying, is still the "Scour the monster manual for ways to trap your opponents or buff your friends" it...

Plus like.... If we're talking 5E, the only thing that's debatably unbalanced player race wise is Yuan-Ti and that's due to the whole "resist every magic spell in the game" thing they got going on What little Con boost you'd get from a dwarf isn't really doing much for a wizard simply due to...

The Warcraft RPG, of all things, had this thing were certain atypical choices, like Abominations (Warcraft's flesh golems) or Ancients (Treants) had a seperate class that gave them the bits and bobs of their archetype, before switching into something else Mind, it did have the problem of being...

Honestly, I don't reckon it'd be as bad as witch simply due to the fact there's a wider idea that's sort of taken place. As compared to witch which, even in D&D, had like.... What, four versions back in Dragon? Shaman was basically a hybrid monk/druid in 3E, semi-druid in 4E, and a worse cleric...

I've gotten much more fond of it these days. The wrong D&D won back in 1E.... On the Dryad thing, I'd see them as being part of a larger Nymph race so we can get the other options as, honestly, Dryads don't really do the 'plant' thing all that much sometimes compared to their general nature...

Just on this, not really. Except for the 'killing with one strike' thing, the rest is just.... Sun Wukong. The Monkey King. Great Sage Equal to Heaven. Those are just, things he could do, not even due to him being the Stone Monkey and all. And this is before we even get to the 72...

Shaman's a tricky one. Firstly the name's.... Yeah, not going to go well. Whatever you do is inevitably going to be compared to WoW's shaman simply because, WoW be WoW, but it doesn't necessarily fit with how D&D's presented things. I can see options for maybe taking a few ideas from Binder of...

Half-orcs are getting replaced by full orcs which, let's be honest here, a lot of people just used the half orc stats to just play a full orc. Especially in 5E with its initial orc offering being among the worst options in the game. You still got your orcy option there, just the weird "You can...

I'd argue there's a link in the implication of the power source being obtained through meditation and the understanding of oneself in the universe. Not that, D&D's ever gone hard on that, but its at least sort of implicated in some of the things there, particularly 3E (Not that 3E's monk was...

I'd like 12, but, will settle for the 9 On top of the 9 1D&D already has (especially gnome, as I will actively fight to keep gnomes around), I'd go with Goblin. While a third small choice, goblins are incredibly popular and will go along well with orcs now being playable Aasimar. Counterpart...

Yeah, kits are basically just proto-subclasses. Not that kits were ever consistent given how they tended to run the gammut from "Completely changes how your class behaves" to "i dunno you got some extra stuff for being in a tunnel I guess". Basically just less consistent subclasses and, if...

I hate digging into single points this deep into a thread, but, this one stuck out at me bad enough I gotta comment on it and hammer on it like a nail. how how in the world does "Being a fan of a fictional character" not make sense? Do you... Not like fictional characters? Didn't read LotR...

Original Dragonborn were a 3.5E thing, but original Dragonborn were.... Weird. As in "You're some other race who's turned into as a platnium dragon-person due to Bahamut devotion and will lose the form if you ever comit an evil act".

The necromantic wizard is a thing in fiction, so its something they should be able to do ingame, probably moreso than the other schools. They study forgotten magics to bring back the dead or break them down, its not dealing with necromantic beings like what a warlock would do. Its always been a...

Thought processes be fun to think about Anywho, I'm going to side with folks saying this isn't the Sorc's fault, but I'm going the other way and will actually put blame to this squarely on the wizard itself being the bad class at saying why it should be the one remaining and shouldn't just be...