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The problem with "not designing for a role" is that you can design a class that has no role. Or fills roles it's not intended to. Personally, I think it would be more interesting to have fewer classes, but they can fill ANY role. For example, the Warrior class is good at martial skills but...

I want to hone in on this element for a moment. I think part of the tragic element of ADEU was the fact that essentially, each power (other than at wills) was Vancian. You knew X abilities and you can use them each exactly 1 time before recharge. Fire and forget. Star Wars Saga did the same...

Completely random gear works great in video games because of a technique we call farming. As in "keep fighting the same mobs or bosses until they drop what your looking for." Now how many DMs are going to let PCs wander in a small area farming respawning orcs/trolls/whatever to keep getting...

Sauce?

So? Potential is there. And wizards can do a lot of things prior that is on par with a Superman type character. Balance is achievable. Which is why I'm not saying change the fighter. I'm saying present a warrior who can do things unbound by the need to be "within the boundaries of what's...

Spellcasters get wish. I'm sure we can find a balance. We have 20 levels to work with. There is a demand for martials who aren't strictly inferior to casters and a demand for more classes that don't use the spell system. I don't see an issue. Do you think you monk is too complex? Do you feel...

I'm not looking for a gish. I want a supernatural warrior without relying on spells. Since D&D won't allow the fighter to be supernatural, let's make something that can be. I want a class that can emulate something like Hercules (supernaturally strong enough to divert rivers), Superman (who...

Yes. Heaven forbid we try to expand that. "Sorry guys, we made a supernatural warrior class already and we can't make another ever again. What do you mean there are 'six full caster classes in the game'?"

Me: I think a Witcher would be a martial character who has supernatural powers but doesn't use spells. Everyone: why don't you play a [insert gish class/subclass] with [insert spell list]? Me: what part of "doesn't use spells" was not understood? I want a martial class that has overt...

Yes, hence why the flavor is on point but the mechanics still shows 1e Pathfinder-level design notes.

All we've done is argue that Nietzsche was wrong about the objective truth.

BH is very fiddly, mostly because you have so many pools of stuff to track (brands, rites, hemo craft) and you are doing damage to yourself to use them. Flavorful? You betcha! Fun? Depends how much you like juggling resources. But what BH excels at his feeling magical without needing to give...

I get why people are upset psionics is essentially just a caster, but a small part of me gets that it's going to be a lot easier to slot in without all of a sudden having to make sure a portion of the treasure in your game comes in psi crystals and other usable stuff for your psion player.

Witcher is far better emulated by Bloodhunter, which is basically the spell less magical martial everyone wants, but slightly over designed mechanically and coated in an edgelord candy shell. If Jeremy and Chris could take a pass over the class to make a 2024 version and add some KISS to it, I...

This was kinda a problem with the 3.5 psion as well. The issue was since psionics overall were considered an add-on and not part of the base game, the DM had to consciously add them for the psionic character and it seemed to stand out. Enemy starts using psionics? This fight is for Bob. Found a...

Primal + arcane would be a witch

Ranger is a warrior/expert/primal caster.

Artificer feels more like a Rogue/wizard hybrid. Or, or did. We'll see what the 24 version looks like when it finally is released.

They are now magical weapons that and not something that you buy from the PHB. I think I get where they were going. You don't see creatures that have resistance to fire or cold unless it's from a magical source. You either resist fire or you don't. But resistance to slashing is dependent on...

This is my biggest complaint to the removal of conditional resistance. Werewolves lose the classic silver bullet. But again, I think they were aiming to remove silver and adamantine weapons except as magical gear, hence the removal of that and Regen. Doesn't mean I have to like it