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Yeah, that too.

This sounds like my dream job. Too bad I don't have the necessary experience... and live on the other corner of the country.

Titania was in 4E, just renamed as Tiandra.

I've literally never had a problem challenging my players in 4E or 5E and I don't have a particularly high opinion of Mearls' game design chops. The problem we're dealing with is fundamentally a player problem: players that want to optimize any fun or tension out of the game make the game worse...

Healing Surges were a great idea.... it has nothing to do with how much of your HP they heal. Healing surges were a pacing mechanic, a measure of how far the players could go before they had to take a long rest because you lose the ability to regain hit points. Hit dice serve basically the same...

They're power creeping everyone. The Monk got a night-and-day glow-up.

Sorry. I think your comments got conflated with some others that were more 'we don't need a psion at all' and I just projected that notion onto you. Truth be told I don't mind if the Psion can reproduce some of the same spells that other casters get (though I'd prefer it to be through expending...

Okay but why? A new class is not a bad thing! You keep acting like designing a new class for Dark Sun is some kind of failure state.

1. I don't think it should be better, just different. Immunity to Counterspell comes at a cost elsewhere. 2. You want me to throw out specifics but I'm not trying to design the class here. I was just trying to explain what I would want in general terms from a best case scenario. There are...

It kind of feels like you are poo-poohing the idea when you keep saying things like 'just make it an archetype of sorcerer.' It's the same thing where people say that Warlord or Ranger should just be an archetype of Fighter... I mean sure you can do that, but that feels needlessly limiting to...

I mean there's already an aberrant mind Sorcerer so I feel like that's handled. I think the bigger issue with that is that it doesn't work thematically with Dark Sun, where Arcane magic defiles. Psonics doesn't. That's the only reason, IMO, an official Psion 'needs' to exist, since I was...

I'd amend that... it's not that it's too radical. Arcane and Divine casting has worked differently in the past--after all, divine originally only went to 7th level. But designing the different spell sources to work differently is a full edition level of change. It's something you'd need to plan...

Wizards being a dying class just doesn't match with my experience. As I said my previous Spelljammer campaign as a DM had two of them, my Dark Sun campaign had one (a Preserver). The 1-to-10 Waterdeep campaign I was in also had a Wizard. And the campaign I did session 0 for today, has a Diviner...

Ideally, Psionic magic couldn't be Counterspelled and would get access to spells that aren't on the Arcane and Divine lists. Psionics' association with the Far Realm should make it the 'weird' power source, the one that does freaky spooky stuff. I do like the notion of having basic disciplines...

He left at 10th level. The party leveled up twice more without him. They briefly got a second wizard but then that guy got Disintegrated due to a lucky high roll on the damage.

Talking about which one to recommend as a DM.

Meanwhile over here trying to figure out which 3PP Gish I want to use between Kibbles, Llaserlama, Fanatic66... probably some others I'm forgetting

In my experience, Wizards are quite powerful. Most of that comes from their versatility. They usually aren't the one doing the most damage, but their spell list gives them among the broadest effectiveness. The Wizard in my recently-ended Spelljammer game had to leave a while before we brought...

Honestly I think the class changes are mostly fine but some of the magic item changes are bonkers. Especially Vicious weapons and Enspelled items. I can definitely see DM getting thrown off by allowing items that were once innocuous only to find them carving through enemies like a lightsaber...

Check out the Tales of the Valiant Warlock. It's a half caster that also has a variation of Pact Magic.