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The idea is that Borys doesn't know Rajaat has wasted away. Or maybe he noticed once but thought it might be a trick. Or perhaps he assumed it was a hallucination or false memory in his madness. Either way he wasn't going to risk it. Besides, it's his excuse for ultimate power and one thing that...

Well, primarily the endless modifiers and determining whether they stack or not. It's something I do not miss from 4E despite my nostalgia.

I think you could still get the essence of 4E without drastically changing the framework. 5E basically plays like 4E with all the tactical guts stripped out as it is, so what you'd need to do is sew them back in without all the 3E cruft and with a presentation that doesn't put people off. Edit...

That's basically my take. With the added bonus that, if my players ever managed to defeat Borys, Rajaat would appear as a withered 50 HP husk of a creature from being sealed away for eons. He's immortal but he also hasn't had a meal in 5000 years.

That... doesn't track. They're keeping another evil sealed, but for the sake of self-preservation, not altruism. Also, you know, sacrificing countless innocents to do so is evil no matter how you slice it.

Basically this. Ever since the OGL crisis, some channels have gone off the deep end in terms of trying to spin everything D&D related as a big scandal or failure. And yeah, I get being skeptical of corps like Hasbro but there's a fine line between skepticism and clickbait and they've made a...

That sounds amazing. I'm aware the game exists but I've a low tolerance for clunky old cRPGs so I've avoided it thus far. Honestly an update of classic pre-BG D&D video games with modern conveniences sounds way more exciting to me than a WOTC attempt to make Baldur's Gate 4 without Larian.

That's incredible. In a bad way.

It's hard to say that in over all terms, WOTC has tried many different ventures with D&D to varrying degrees of success. But CR has done a good job of making the various pillars of their business matter. The fact they've gotten three seasons of an animated series off the ground and are about to...

I mean yes, but I don't think the expensive difficult answers should be part of class design, but of world and monster design. Sure, a Druid can grow plants in a 30 foot cube, if they reach high level. But a fire drake can scorch miles of terrain in a single day if it goes on a rampage. Also...

My ideal 6E would take the chassis of 5E and integrate a lot more of 4E's positive traits into it, as well as some aspects of TOTV/A5E like making ancestry and culture-based traits separate choices. I'd want classes to get more interesting choices at each level, monsters to be designed with role...

A5E has a pretty solid dogfolk heritage called the Madrai. Edit: Link

What I'm saying is that passing the buck to individual preservers is the opposite of a call to collective action. 'Well I guess we're done screwed so you might as well defile when you can get away with it', to me, just validates apathy. Collective action means rallying against the sorcerer...

Okay, but why? The original fiction was always "the method to not ruining the environment exists, but it's gate-kept by the powerful elite class who benefit from the status quo." Which seems way more relevant to me than the notion of individuals making painful sacrifices for an ultimately...

It sounds like you're saying that Preserver spellcasters should be weaker than in D&D baseline, but that would require the game math to be reworked around it. The reason Preservers use the basic rules is so that everything still maths right. Defiling gets you more power quicker, at the cost of...

I mean it also completely ruins the land around the caster making it unable to sustain vegetation.

Not to mention all the other logistical hurdles. Thirteen players in a west marches game, while launching a new setting? That would be a nightmare to try and run and make entertaining while also learning to run a new system (and teaching players to play it). I kind of suspected from the moment...

Makes sense given how templars functioned in past editions.

I don't understand why people are so put off by this decision honestly. I'm personally less interested in watching a long-form Daggerheart AP because I have little interest in running the game. But people are acting like this is a shady move or displays a lack of confidence in their own game and...

Okay perhaps my word choice was bad, but I stand by my thoughts: Dark Sun needs a level of sincerity to it, so it wouldn't work as a grimdark setting.