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Some of Laserllamas subclasses come pretty close for me.

I don't mind Monks, but a 6e monk should be pulling concepts from Cradle, xianxia fiction, Street Fighter, WoW and Diablo, not from David Carradine or some awful '70s fiction. Edit: And DBZ and Naruto, of course.

Normal games, sure. But we're talking about a hypothetical D&D 6e. My personal preference is for more classes, but lighter in weight. Only a few features (3-5, depending on complexity), all gained by level 5, and with light scaling of those features as levels increase. 1-2 pages in a book at...

Yes, but those people still play and need to be catered to. Make the core resolution system dirt simple, and use class and subclass features to make things more complex.

I did it one of my many 5e experiments. Worked well.

Please, no. We need less numbers being added to the rolls, not more. "Which of these numbers do I add to this roll" is new people's number one complaint about D&D, IMX.

Not 100%, but it's a closer fit than Arthurian romantic fantasy or swords-and-sorcery.

100% agree. When I run D&D nowadays, concepts like "class" and "hit points" are explicitly supernatural phenomenon that exist within the setting fiction. The game just runs so much more smoothly when you stop pretending that a "class" is simply a vocation and that hit points are a combination...

In more game mechanical terms, the desire for those players is for nonmagical classes and subclasses to only gain abilities that modify and adjust the normal resolution system (attack rolls and skill checks and damage rolls), not provide new optionality. They can get more and better attacks...

Exactly. The player just handed you a story hook, why would you drop it like a hot potato? Let's play the game to discover exactly what your subclass means in the story!

Lanefan's ideas are fine for optional gritty play but not for the core game.

Yea, I disagree. It's not an issue of legality, it's an issue of respecting the fact that you're part of a community that thrives on collaboration. Which they took to heart and corrected, which is a happy ending for all involved.

In their defense, they were extremely overt in calling out their game influences in Daggerheart. Lesson learned and all that.

I already have multiple 3pp that do a more than credible job as 5e++. If that's the route 6e takes, it's not worth a purchase. I'm positive about a 6e if it's an impactful change, to keep to the (+) standard.

I know I mentioned Schwalb's Shadow duology in glowing terms, was it me? Feel free to call me out! I have many more hot takes!

Hey, we're just trying to make things better for the rest of you unwashed masses. :)

You can have a resource game without tying the recharge to the nightly sleep narrative, though.

The 2 Shadow games are the closest game I've seen to my ideal version of D&D.

I think the game could get closer, but it needs to ditch the idea of a diegetic rest period (i.e. going to sleep) being a full recharge of everyone's resources. Break that linkage in everyone's expectations, and the game can start exploring more innovative resource structures.

Magic items just shouldn't provide pluses. Perfect world, a player should only ever have to add their ability modifier to any dice roll; any other modification should modify the dice rolls (change the die, add a bonus/malus die, etc.)