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I'm not sure I'd call the Green DPS, who harvests the pain and suffering of my group to nourish the Blood Lily, to be the dedicated healer... The group gets healed so my big DPS ability does More Damage

The big showy moment for the druid in the D&D movie was "Turn into an owlbear", and outside of D&D the wider thing of druids is "They turn into animals" thanks to Diablo and Warcraft, so the shapeshifting is absolutely something folks associate with it more than the nature mage side

Back in the day I know I found the thread where the Ferrous were updated to 3E, plus the beginnings of the counterparts (Stone dragons IIRC). Its somewhere in all of those updates to 3E

Yup. Early hyenas were also weird, with stuff like Chasmaporthes, the only hyena that made it over to North America, being a sprinter. There were a lot of generalist hyenas, the bone-crushers were just a specialised family. But in the end, all the dog-like hyena generalists died out but one...

Just didging one up from a while ago (look I was out and had to lug a 2 ft tall toy home on a train I've had a weird one today) I wouldn't say its watered down, but its super changed. They went in on the "weekend from hell" feel of the original box set which, if you were someone who preferred...

Oh absolutely, Warcraft's got problems. There's a reason Exploring Kalimdor is as uh... Regarded as it is But, it shoved "Yeah orcs are just people" so hard into the cultural zeitgeist that it cannot be removed

In this day and age, more people care about Warcraft and its various parts than anything, except Tolkein, from the original Appendix N. D&D swiped heaps of its creatures from pop culture, why wouldn't it pay attention to how pop culture handles orcs and goblins? Warcraft affected how pop culture...

Not all the enemies, but stuff like stunning does similar (Remove a single target) but has bonuses, like the bonus damage. So compared to that, heals aren't doing the best. 1.5 times a single target DPR seems fair. Enough 'oomph' to a heal that it feels worthwhile to use

Nope. That damage you healed is gone again. A goblin sneezed and that took out the HP you healed, sorry. They're back to where they were and all the damage came through, your healing was pointless. On a strict timeline of damage for time, 5E massively values damage over healing. We're how many...

Enough to make the loss of a round of attacks be worthwhile, so probably at least the full amount of damage you could expect to get in at least a single round, if only a single round and a half as a bare minimum. As for resource cost? Basically the same as what it is at present. Failling that...

I gotta agree with the stuff upthread that the best way is probably buffing healing. Monster damage outscales healing in pretty much all cases, so the game incentiveses you to focus on dealing damage yourself and taking down the opponent. You're never going to out-heal an opponent's damage, so...

I would argue there's also a case of Dark Sun's fiction of emulation, Swords and Sorcery, being basically a dead genre at the moment also doesn't help things. Firstly, dude, the hell? Secondly, its the year 2023. They're going to write for an audience in 2023. They're not going to roll out...

There's a bit of a difference between Torchbearer which, let's be honest, is so niche it doesn't even have a Wikipedia page, doing something like this compared to Wizards who published Dungeons and Dragons, the TTRPG people have actually heard of that had just a fan project of it lead to an $11...

You forgot "Khajiit has wares if you have coin" seriously, Khajiit probably the biggest boost to Tabaxi

Weretigers are way more obscure, plus Tabaxi artwork puts them clearly in the leopard/jaguar side of things Hengeyokai could easily be split into about 5 different races completely, they're the equivilent of squishy pretty distinct creatures together into one. They're honestly way different...

You can always go with Anubis-styled folks, which is... Well okay its -technically- a wolf but folks thought it was a jackal for the longest time

The Lupin are the go-to for canine-ish race, though frankly they're generally wolf-ish in their latest version As for why not, probably because they're tied to Mystara. Bear folks are at least a thing that can be dragged from Dragonlance if I recall correctly

My brain has merged most of the earlier stuff together in a 'oh yeah that came out like four years ago' type of thing please do not actually tell me when SCAG came out I will disintergrate into dust

And that shows you how much attention I paid to SCAG outside of 'oh hey I can get genasi stats from this 👀' Fair. But it was absolutely a business decision at the time to try and get people to go all in on stuff they wouldn't normally. Mind most I've heard of it from the backend is confusion...

Those are some insanely deep cuts, I approve