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Bro that's clearly what we call in this business "an opinion". It's not even stated LIKE it's a fact, whereas opinions often are and thus that request is more viable.

So long as it's not "magic" and there's no implication it's magic, but rather some extremely ill-defined "internal energy" or the like, and it's PHB class, that'd probably be good. Honestly I think at this point, we need to just delete the Monk class entirely for the sake of D&D. There's no...

To be fair I don't think a level 1-3 Fighter should have distance cutting stuff either! In fantasy where this happens, this is something really experienced or really spiritually powerful weapon-wielders can do. I would say like, level 7 or 8 is where you'd probably seeing it, in current 5E...

Yeah and would make a good option/dial/setting for a 6E I think.

I mean, if we're talking fantastical, the idea that a Fighter can in well under six seconds (from level 5 onwards) potentially kill or maim four different people in four different directions with four different attacks (each potentially having a different Battlemaster rider on them!), rising to...

Yeah and worth noting this sort of thing would probably be an actual limited ability, not just at will distance chops unless that was the entire "deal" your subclass has. Like, maybe you can do it Proficiency bonus times per rest when you make an attack. Oh yeah speaking of which: If 6E...

But should they never cut bamboo, a small tree or even a mast in half from range? This is something that happens routinely in some fantasy fiction (not just anime/manga, but those and videogames are the main fantasy referents for gen Z I would suggest, and gen Z and younger millennials are the...

Yeah sorry I'm talking about the Monk "Focus" thing in 2024 specifically - how it could be a resource for a Fighter-like class to do crazy stuff as well.

Yes the 9 abilities thing? Fine, and indeed is an extremely well-tested design element across videogames and boardgames and so on. What was a problem was both those abilities increasing in complexity, and monsters increasing in complexity, and the the goddamn initiative system, which whilst...

I don't want to be mean to designers here, but it is striking that certain aspects of D&D, especially in 3E and 5E (4E was pretty wild) seem like they do reflect the limitations of imagination and relevance on the part of the designers pretty harshly. 3E had LFQW, which was absolutely both...

I mean, he factually is not. Not even "roughly". That's the issue. He's not even close. He's not in the same ballpark. Your son I'm sure is a cool guy, but can he put on an entire suit of full plate in 5 minutes flat and move in it perfectly? Does he know how to competently and effectively...

4E would have been better if it had Ultimates honestly, that like, weren't just Dailies but something some kind of meta-resource charged up. I feel like maybe you got something similar to that with the 2nd or 3rd tier stuff but it's been a long time so I don't recall.

No question. There's always a long chain of inspiration, and fantasy authors are wildly disproportionately likely to have read other, longer-ago fantasy authors. But... a lot haven't. Like, especially look at YA Fantasy or Romantasy which are huge genres - like, how many younger 20-somethings...

Not in 5E, no they could not. That's just incorrect. A 5E Fighter has full proficiency in all armour, shields, and martial weapons. So no. That's not an opinion that's viable. It's simply incorrect. 5E's rules have never allowed for that. You can RP that you don't have all the weapon and...

I don't think it is very controversial outside of a few websites (including this one), and a few people with very strong and fixed opinions (but respect to to people here - almost everyone has less fixed, less dogmatic opinions now on this and other mechanical issues than they did say, 10 years...

I think that's probably the right grouping, and I suspect a D&D that really focused hard on levels 1-10 and making sure they were fun as hell would be significantly better than ones trying to cram 1-20 (or more!) in. Also, if they release the others a year or two later, that gives them time to...

It surely does yes! I know this will depress the hell out of some people, but re: the original Appendix N, really only Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit of that entire list is still widely-read, and even that's far better known by the films. People conceptually know about Conan, and maybe know one...

Hmmm. We found 4E was significantly faster than 3.5E until you got to level 11 or so (in large part because of the more consistent and exception-based design). The trouble 4E had was that as you levelled up, you didn't get an excessive number of abilities, the number you had at any time was...

Even this raises massive, massive questions, because which "Arthurian fantasy"? Arthurian fantasies vary insanely, there's no one standardized style. Like, Pendragon has a very specific and quite narrow take on Arthurian fantasy, I'd strongly argue is absolutely not representative of the genre...

Sure but the context you're using remains exceptionally tough, and that naturally leads to highly valuing CC spells. The other thing that's very context-based is party make-up. You seem to assuming the party has a lot of non-spellcasting (or limited spellcasting) damage dealers - i.e...