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I actually do consider there to have been an approximate time boundary when what I'd call modern RPG design coalesced from a collection of ideas that you can find some of in earlier RPGs to the design of actual games that were popular by RPG standards rather than basically belonged to a message...

And remember the Bo9S is the parts that did make the cut. The pick of the classes and recharge mechanics and not e.g. the multiple simultaneous condition tracks.

No - but the Bo9S was never intended to be a splatbook. It was instead intended to be 4e but the game failed due to being over complex and they went back to the drawing board. The Bo9S was a salvage operation for what was usable and I don't expect that again.

What do you mean "non-spellcaster"? If it's non-full caster I really don't think there's any point wriggling in between the wizard and sorcerer. Because I'm on team "Mystic needed at least one and probably two more drafts before being put out for public playtesting" and failing that team...

The huge problem with the metamorph is that it's a trap. You're on the wizard/sorcerer chassis (d6 hit die, no armour prof) and most of the weapons are melee

How many of the "safe era" ideas even get talked about? The warlock is one of between one and two classes to be added to the core in the past 25 years (the other being the artificer). And there are only two classes that get frequently brought up - the Psion and the warlord.

This isn't entirely fair. There was some experimentation with Tasha's, such as giving the sorcerer extra spells and making the druid's wild shape lead to interesting things that weren't animal transformations. And non-mundane rogues (soulknife, phantom) and fighters (psi warrior, rune knight)...

We had a bit of it in Tasha's and later in the 2014 version. Nothing that out there but things like wildfire and spores druids but the 5e release schedule was sloooow. Meanwhile it's the changing of the guard and we're getting low hanging fruit - mostly warmed over 2014 material like the wizard...

The only things Psionics not being magic really bypassed were Counterspell (boo!), Dispel Magic, Magic Resistance (not a thing in 5e but all over the place in 3.5) and Magic Immunity. This isn't really an issue in 5e. The thing is that we actually have a lot of Psionics and with multiple...

It depends what you mean by "spell slots". I'm fine with them in principle - but I am not fine with every casting class except one having the same copy-paste breakdown of these quanta (even if some classes progress at half speed and some subclasses at a third speed). Meanwhile the only actual...

And both are important. But to hate the warlock is to hate both.

Remathilis: "I like my classes distinct, thank you" Also Remathilis: The only spellcasting class n the game that is actually mechanically distinct in that it doesn't use the same boring generic spell slot progression as all the rest (although some at half speed) is a "cancer"

And every time I see you continue your quixotic crusade to badwrongfun the single best designed class in the game I'm going to point out that even if we ignore the great thematic hooks the warlock structure is easily the best for reflecting character growth in the entire game.

One of my few problems with 2024 beyond breaking emanations was the way it broke the Aberrant Mind Psion by forcing you to keep the tentacle spells

2e Psionics of course took up an entire book and spewed 70 pages of class-specific spells all over the system. This has five pages of spells of which only four or five are Psion exclusive. 90% of the benefit off 10% of the page count and 10% of the GM overhead is a big improvement. And when I...

You can be a spellcaster without being yet another cookie cutter full caster to add to the five existing ones. If they were going to make the Psion an int based version of an existing caster they could at least have picked warlock the way Laserllama did

With me I'm less interested in the quality of graphics than I am the difference between "shot on location" Vs "shot against a green screen" and "being on set together Vs put together in post" What makes the environments feel real to me is the ability to interact with them. Especially on my...

To the surprise of no one it funded. I'm in the "It's seriously overpriced for the packs" camp. On the other hand it's the cheapest current way of getting the PDF

The costs are pretty high; I checked and a single (so no economies of scale) full custom 55 card deck is less than £14

As I've said Teenage me would agree with you on GURPS - and if you were to force me to only play games that were at least 20 years old I'd pick GURPS as my mainstay (and own more books for it than any other system if we separate the WotC D&D editions).