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I did like the Binder/Vestiges concept, and that could be used to bring back the D&D Next playtest Warlock, which was a really neat idea. (TL;DR: It was VERY invocation-based, albeit not by that name...and every invocation-like thing you took actually had a visible cost, e.g. Devil's Sight would...

Exactamundo. A swordmage is a character for whom swordplay is magic, and magic is swordplay. To separate the two would be like asking a flautist to separate their left hand and breathing from their right hand and embouchure: ridiculous, and more importantly pointless.

I'm not the one who made a statistical claim; if you don't actually know that a majority is doing something, saying "Lots of people, the majority in fact, buy supplements", then why use that word? "The majority in fact" would indicate that there is a fact you are stating.

So you don't actually have anything beyond "I'm pretty sure"?

You have the numbers to back up this "majority" claim, yes? You can prove that every supplemental book for 5.0 was bought by a majority of people who had bought the core books?

If I had had even the slightest success with getting 3PP material while playing 5e, I would take this much more seriously. It's not players who insist on "WotC has to make it". It's GMs. Specifically 5e GMs, and their hyperconservative attitude toward this kind of content unless they...

Well, at least in my personal understanding of it, Druids deal with the essences in nature: raw elemental forces, beasts and their characteristics, weather, that sort of thing. Shaman deal with the consciousnesses in nature. "All that is, is alive." Everything has some kind of consciousness in...

Don't kid yourself. The vast majority of players who prefer "simplicity" are never going to buy first-party supplements. Because every single one of those supplements is, necessarily, guaranteed, always adding complexity. Full stop. If people prefer simplicity, they're never going to step...

Very, very much too late, yes. The concept has taken on a life of its own beyond D&D, and that now feeds back into D&D. Folks expect a "Druid" to be someone who can shapeshift. That this is a pigeonholing of those abilities, when they could otherwise have fit into a bigger and more thematically...

Yes, because new classes in supplemental books that those players who love simplicity would never buy are such a monumental threat. Pull the other one.

Why not? Like legit. Why not? And even if that's true, who cares? Dragonborn weren't a common thing before 4e put them front and center. Now, they're the most popular non-human, non-elf race, at least based on the last time we got any data on the subject from DDB. And that is?

You'd think that this would be a bizarre response, but I've seen several people take that stance. As though anyone playing a support-focused character is somehow stealing your achievements simply because they're helping. Unless it's magic. Magic is fine! Who cares about magic doing precisely...

In fact, I can name at least six subclasses, only four of which arise from 4e directly. Tactical, Resourceful, and Bravura are the classic three--but then we also bring in the Skirmishing Warlord, which focuses on being a ranged attacker, not melee. Fifth is Knight-Enchanter, a spell-focused...

Warlord. Instant no brainer. It would be an inarguable olive branch to a community that has, more than once, felt pretty damn snubbed by 5e, and would have various other benefits as well. I agree with @Mistwell that Swordmage is also a reasonable choice, given the game has tried so many times...

While this is a question worth asking, it's not a particularly difficult one to answer. Perhaps the character just felt called to do it--maybe they saved someone's life and now feel that, since they can save lives, they need to do so. Great power and great responsibility. Or, for a religious...

"Placate" doesn't mean "perfectly replicate the original experiences of".

Oh well on that front, certainly not. The horrifically creepy halfling art from early 5.0 was testament to that!

Eldritch Fusillade req: Agonizing Blast, Thirsting Blade Once per turn, when you take the Attack action, you can replace one melee attack with any Warlock cantrip you have enhanced with Agonizing Blast. If that cantrip requires a spell attack roll, you may only make one such attack roll, even if...

And I'm very much of the opinion that 5e bends over backwards to placate old-school fans at every turn. Not always, but IMO very often, to its detriment.

Doubly so, "only" 45% on a place like this, where folks have been openly critical of 5.5e and are pretty significantly leaning in an old-school direction? Not bad in the slightest. Is it great performance? Probably not, no. But anyone who thought 5.5e was going to roar back to exactly where 5.0...