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i think for me final fantasy came before harry potter as my first proper exposure to 'wizards' which maybe caused a bit of a different impression given it's a videogame rather than literature but yeah same general sentiment, my black mage is casting fira as their standard action not plinking...

not if designed properly i think, i don't mean abilities that only work in and are only applicable to a specific environment, i mean ones that are generically useful but thematic to the biome they come from, having a swim speed, cold resistance and the ability to freeze things and turn into a...

i really wish they would split the shapeshifting from the spellcasting with the druid, if not IMO ideally into it's own class then at least as an either-or choice at first level, you can have the shapeshifting OR the spellcasting to go with the rest of your druid abilities but not both (barring...

uh, is this meant to be replying to your own post or did discord bug out on you?

sure your character can get that, all they need to do is take a quick break from adventuring to study specialist magical theory for 15 years like the archmage did. i get the 'man that's cool and overpowered, i want my character to do that' attitude for NPC goodies but i also understand those...

that wizards needs to stop taking design half measures and actually put the effort in to actually make a swordmage properly already? ;)

soooo.... warlock right? you want things designed like warlock, with EB and their invocations for continual use and a few big pop offs with pact magic.

because there's the other half of 'everybody' who love martials.

i don't see why it's not a viable design path, but with all respect to @Minigiant 's design suggestions you could probably drop the variable mental stat and just go with an INT/STR primary stat design, Battlemaster manoeuvres already provide a ton of versatility and given the general assumption...

i saw my chance to make a DM of the Rings reference and i am taking it

do you really think if they add a new class there's any chance it's not going to have subclasses? subclasses are how they keep selling new content for old classes.

i don't think slot based carry capacity is something that would jive all that well in DnD because characters tend to pick up all sorts of weird bits and bobs but i think simplifying encumbrance into basic weight points could work, a longsword is 3 weight, an adventurer's pack is 5, combine that...

i don't know anything about kender except them being an excuse to be a compulsive kleptomaniac with an inbuilt justification to bat their eyes innocently when asked to explain themselves. okay i'm sure that's great but thats not what i meant, i meant a people who value the resulting story more...

i don't think cantrips should be removed but the one concession to them i would make is reduce the amount they auto-scale, they don't need to scale three times, just once would be enough IMO, probably at like, 7th, casters don't need to become a rando with crossbow when they run out of slots but...

I like the idea of a halfling family/settlement with an inverted hobbiton attitude, where going on an adventure and bringing back these grand tales of life and death and weirdness to be recorded is a respected and celebrated accomplishment, recognised as a dangerous thing yes, but still...

not trying to hate but, what does a shaman even do except be druid but spirits? warlord and swordmage i understand as picks but shaman feels like the odd suggestion out, i don't see what niche it fills.

the difference between psionics and magic is similar to the difference between sorcerers and wizards: psionics is a raw font of power that comes from within, is instinctual and more directly connected to the vitality of the body, magic is a more structured form of power, one that is pervasive...

mostly i think they need a small (per individual character) selection of specializations that give them a number of at-will and/or quick-recharge abilities that can be enhanced into stronger versions and variants by using points from an easy come-easy go 'energy' resource pool, it would also be...

so like, digging a little deeper into the ideas of what i said here about integrating feats and fighting styles into the weapons themselves and something i saw someone said about broad and specific weapon groups, if each specific weapon property carried a more notable additional effect or action...