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And I personally believe that that is precisely what it is. It redesigned most classes, changed when you get class features, completely rewrote feats, rewrote or modified several spells, you don't get ability scores from race, etc. The rewriting of species and background has been a pretty...

Given how people caterwauled about Tasha's being 5.5e before we got actual 5.5e? No, they did not include "every publication some people considered different enough to be considered a significant" jump.

It literally actually wasn't though. Because you can, without changing anything, no house-rules, no conversion documents, absolutely nothing changed, play "original" 4e characters and Essentials-only characters at the same table. As long as you don't cross a class with itself, you can even...

My frank view is: they just won't publish anything at all at that point, or they entirely fob it off on third parties who have to play it safe because risky means too few sales. They were content to let 4e die on the vine for something like a year before the new-edition playtests began. I...

I like to walk a different line here. I have this conception of dragons-are-angels-are-dragons. Originally, you had two broods and a bunch of non-brood dragons. Dead Io, the Source from which the universe springs, produced many divine children, but Tiamat and Bahamut were the two greatest, and...

While that's perfectly fine, the question as asked was, "When will we get 5e's Bo9S?" In slightly different words, but they did specifically name-drop that, as well as Incarnum. And it wasn't just that. We also got the execrable but interesting Truenamer, and the Shadowcaster, and a variety of...

Very much wish I could vote 4e, but the correct answer is 5.5e. I understand that the "4e Essentials" line is there because folks think it's different....I just wish people would stop feeding that perspective.

Do you really see these things as comparable to the Book of Nine Swords? I most certainly do not.

This is sort of a prelude to future musings, looking to survey the field rather than debate per se. What do you think a Psion needs, if they are not, in any way, a spellcaster? Please note the [+], if you are genuinely and entirely of the opinion that a spellcaster Psion is the correct path to...

Just to be clear, I am not simply memeing with the "That's the neat thing, you don't" image above. I'm quite serious. There never will be that stage, because 5e, as the apology edition, cannot do that. It cannot be weird and experimental. It has to be bog-standard, every time, until the day it...

Yes, well, people said a lot of things about 4e. At least half of them were objectively falsehoods and a large chunk of those were falsehoods spoken in genuine ignorance due to having never even looked at the rules.

Not necessarily! I like dice only up to a limit. I hated the "proficiency dice" mechanic that Mearls adored. He preserved it, in flagrant violation of the internal "70%+ or it's out" rule, until he finally could not justify keeping it. That's why Proficiency has the rate and scaling it has, by...

It's not all of the survey results. It's that, at least during 5.0, in order for anything new to make it out of UA, it had to exceed 70% approval. If it didn't exceed 70% approval on the very first pass, it usually got completely eliminated, without any effort to try to fix it. That's why the...

Precisely. When you need more than a supermajority to get any option accepted, psionics was never ever going to make it. They could hit 50%, maybe 60% if they did particularly well. Hitting over 70% was never going to happen. Almost nothing in D&D genuinely makes more than 70% of players happy.

And you have citations for this "overwhelmingly negative" claim, yes?

No, it isn't. But people will not realize that until it's far too late to do anything about it.

Still a spellcaster? Then still a 100% non-starter for me. I'm glad Psion fans will actually get a real, actual class with the name "Psion". I just (probably) won't ever play one, because this is just the most recent example in the cavalcade of "if it's supernatural, 99.9% of the time, it's...

It's a no-man's-land problem. The absolute titans of the industry, like Microsoft or Square Enix, can bite the bullet and pay for the enormous cost of a maximum-budget game, knowing that as long as it's at least pretty decent they'll make their money back eventually. And then, as you say, the...

The thing that gets me about Payday is... It's online Cops & Robbers. Like, that's pretty much literally what it is. You would think this would be a competitive space, particularly since being a robber is, mechanically and thematically, much more interesting than being a cop. And yet, Payday is...