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It's worth bringing up that it happened, but yeah, speculation is poison. It twists us into more extreme versions of ourselves.

That sounds like too many angles of specialization in my book – more of a GURPS system, where it's hard too be a decent generalist and you have to specialize or else you're behind on the power curve significantly. The 8 schools of magic are more than just for Wizards; it's just that they have 8...

I don't think v5.2 is wrong to allow the Beast Master Ranger to share their actions rather than sacrifice them, choosing one or the other. This was the biggest issue with the v4.0 Martial Power Beast Master and the v5.0-5.1 Beast Master. The 4e Shaman was an interesting idea of a spirit guide...

You could get Werebear and Unicorn and Gold Dragon followers in OD&D, but the pet followers really emerged in 2e (though no Tigers for you because your campaign doesn't take place in a part of the world with Tigers, obviously! DM May I is rule of the game). Combine this with the animal handling...

might be a good feat choice, but yeah, that's shocking to me too. I wonder if there's a "let your ally move again spell" that will be on the Bard list?

I think there was major pushback on this. I would expect that the way they'd go about this is give Wrathful Smite to the War Cleric on its Domain list, so that it's not poachable?

Dance Bards are like Dancers in Fire Emblem. So much so that sometimes they're replaced by Bards, sometimes they're supplemented by Bards but essentially do the same thing. They should be able to fly around the battlefield giving buffs and healing and kicking occasional enemies, but mainly...

I just don't think that Pokémon Trainer Ranger represents enough of the trope space of Rangers. Honestly, the hunter's mark space is a bit off for me too; I thought that leaning into the exploration pillar in 2014 was the right direction, the system just lacks a robust enough exploration pillar...

it could be though.

Nah, that's the powersource wielded by the Pungeon Master!

Power Source is a think in the lore; Crawford discusses Arcane / Divine / Primal magic in the video. Bards have Bardic Magic, which is your own thing. In 5e they've long been a bit sequestered from the 4 "Arcane Casters" who got the Arcane Weapon spells as soon as they were added. Bardic...

This is like how I wish that Bards could use a Mask as a focus as well – think Griots!

Oh, I don't really care about short rest period so much as the non-combat extra healing function. I know from a CharOp perspective the extending of Short Rests from 10 mins to 1 hour is complicated.

Makes me think of CrackerMilk's "Why I Hate Mimes" video. XD

I think it's pretty clear that per the language in the article, "If there’s a feature we don’t cover, such as Jack of All Trades, that means it remains unchanged or saw minor changes", Bards still are Spells Known casters, unlike Rangers who specifically became Prepare-from-Spell-List casters.

I can run 3 bards at level 20? That's the best capstone in the game! :D EDIT: In all seriousness, I assume you meant minimum of 3 bard spells at 20th.

If they added swift quiver to the Druid spell list, then you might have it. Alternatively, yeah, this might create space for a bow-bard subclass in the future a la 4E's College of Prescience. Still sad about Song of Rest as I liked the healing built on short rests, and would have liked it to be...

I'm so glad that they kept the Arcane/Divine/Primal spell lists in the forms of the Wizard/Cleric/Druid spell lists, since this clearly identifies that Bards are tapping into all 3 of these magical traditions. But more so, I prefer this to selecting one list and then getting all of them at 10 --...

This is super sad news to me!

No, you shouldn't, and I'm sorry that I came off dismissive. It wasn't intentional! You can and should voice your opinions, and you don't have to shut up about it. I think I just disagree on how I'd go about making a martial Ranger. I still have my quibbles with this Ranger too, and I'm very...