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I can name you two - Prince of Nothing and A Land Fit For Heroes. They're both awful (and both weirdly obsessed with sexual assault far beyond other grimdark), but they aren't parodic.

See lol! 3E established the Necrons, T'au and Drukhari, so that does matter, but it also de-established a bunch of stuff, much of which has since been re-established. The biggest lore changes which weren't just introducing those three races were actually much later, with the whole Primaris...

But that's exactly the issue - if you can redo anything and turn back time continually, everything is trivial. There's essentially no difficulty in most situations, especially because you effectively see the future by reloading a game and knowing what AI likely or even certain to do (based on...

Nah. 3/4/5 were humourless rubbish. Absolute rubbish. And no, they didn't "codify" the modern setting. 2E did. I've had this argument at great length with assorted 40K people, and it always ends the same way, the person claiming 2E didn't do that ends up admitting they weren't very familiar...

I mean, I guarantee a bunch of "grimdark" stuff you like is technically equally classifiable as hopepunk. Not all of, it but like, probably a significant double-digit fraction, so I'm not sure I entirely buy "anathema".

I get it. It happened to me already with 40K, all the way back in 1998! I started playing GW games in about 1988, Adeptus Titanicus, Rogue Trader (1E 40K), etc. Went on to Epic Scale and Space Marine (2E 40K). That was all great and most of the really good baseline lore for 40K was created...

This would be pretty weaksauce. But equally I'm with Defiling/Preserving being a subclass thing, not a per-spell thing (just not something unique to one class each). I played a lot of Dark Sun in 2E. No Preserver ever, ever defiled. So it doesn't need to be per-spell. @overgeeked The real...

Mad Max: Fury Road is "hopepunk" so that's not the chilling threat you seem to think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopepunk#Examples "We can make a better world" is literally at the core of Dark Sun. It's part of the 2E starting adventure lol. Kalak dies and he doesn't come back. The...

Even with point buy and 2 ASIs the only way to have 20 CHA is to have 16 STR or DEX when a normal Fighter has 20 STR or DEX so you're hugely worse than them at actually fighting. Why are you ignoring that? You can eventually catch up at the cost of 2 Feats, a pretty huge cost when things like...

EN World is the only place I've seen this idea taken seriously. DH is amazing but they have a core audience which isn't ready for that yet.

Oh come off it. Who even expected DH to the game for campaign 4? The idea that they're "abandoning" it is just ludicrous nonsense.

One lives in hope but this is my major concern. Ravenloft and Planescape weren't "disastrous" without significant hyperbole but they also weren't particularly impressive, C+ at best. Not great for A and S tier settings respectively. Dragonlance was... astonishingly bad. Not because of mustaches...

So it's a cynical guess? Ok. Nothing wrong with that, but it's nothing more than that. I think it's unlikely it's only that myself, because we're looking at 4 subclasses here + potentially all the psychic subclasses from the other UA (I don't think even WotC will try and make us by Dark Sun and...

I mean, it's objectively worse than a Battlemaster, I think it can be demonstrated. Brutality is: CHA bonus uses/Rest 1/round No inherent damage bonus Bleed = +CHA damage and Sap. Sap = Disadvantage on next 1 attack by target Bluff = Advantage on your next saving throw and Vex. Vex =...

Yup. It's no mistake that slavery didn't really persist in Europe into the Middle ages even though it was common in the Roman era and fairly common in the Dark Ages ("Non Angli sed angeli", Viking use of thralls etc.). You can get pretty much all the major benefits with a much lower management...

Have you got a source for this?

Yeah the only point is it's just going to be opinion-based/white room stuff. There were some long-ago UAs which had much, much larger timeframes? But I suspect WotC found those didn't actually help them all that much, otherwise why change it? Maybe the main value of UA surveys is opinion? Like...

I'd congratulate you for your touch-typing mastery but I guess you won't read it until you're back from A&E! That said I'm not really sure what's wrong with: It's a bit Captain Planet but like, a lot of Druid subclasses are and a lot of D&D subclasses are kinda Saturday morning cartoon. I...

That seems a little dramatic. I don't think having a short deadline will lead to less approval. It will lead to less mechanical examination (which I suspect often means higher approval, not lower), but despite your Hot Take re: "all these suck", actually 3 out of the 4 seem solid and you...

Not really. I don't think it's jarring for any normal people, because many of the most evil regimes in history haven't really been keen slavers, because they used serfdom and/or indentured servitude or corvee labour (that's another good one) instead. You don't have to weird-AF creepy pre-civil...