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Don't kid yourself. The vast majority of players who prefer "simplicity" are never going to buy first-party supplements. Because every single one of those supplements is, necessarily, guaranteed, always adding complexity. Full stop. If people prefer simplicity, they're never going to step...

Very, very much too late, yes. The concept has taken on a life of its own beyond D&D, and that now feeds back into D&D. Folks expect a "Druid" to be someone who can shapeshift. That this is a pigeonholing of those abilities, when they could otherwise have fit into a bigger and more thematically...

Yes, because new classes in supplemental books that those players who love simplicity would never buy are such a monumental threat. Pull the other one.

Why not? Like legit. Why not? And even if that's true, who cares? Dragonborn weren't a common thing before 4e put them front and center. Now, they're the most popular non-human, non-elf race, at least based on the last time we got any data on the subject from DDB. And that is?

You'd think that this would be a bizarre response, but I've seen several people take that stance. As though anyone playing a support-focused character is somehow stealing your achievements simply because they're helping. Unless it's magic. Magic is fine! Who cares about magic doing precisely...

In fact, I can name at least six subclasses, only four of which arise from 4e directly. Tactical, Resourceful, and Bravura are the classic three--but then we also bring in the Skirmishing Warlord, which focuses on being a ranged attacker, not melee. Fifth is Knight-Enchanter, a spell-focused...

Warlord. Instant no brainer. It would be an inarguable olive branch to a community that has, more than once, felt pretty damn snubbed by 5e, and would have various other benefits as well. I agree with @Mistwell that Swordmage is also a reasonable choice, given the game has tried so many times...

While this is a question worth asking, it's not a particularly difficult one to answer. Perhaps the character just felt called to do it--maybe they saved someone's life and now feel that, since they can save lives, they need to do so. Great power and great responsibility. Or, for a religious...

"Placate" doesn't mean "perfectly replicate the original experiences of".

Oh well on that front, certainly not. The horrifically creepy halfling art from early 5.0 was testament to that!

Eldritch Fusillade req: Agonizing Blast, Thirsting Blade Once per turn, when you take the Attack action, you can replace one melee attack with any Warlock cantrip you have enhanced with Agonizing Blast. If that cantrip requires a spell attack roll, you may only make one such attack roll, even if...

And I'm very much of the opinion that 5e bends over backwards to placate old-school fans at every turn. Not always, but IMO very often, to its detriment.

Doubly so, "only" 45% on a place like this, where folks have been openly critical of 5.5e and are pretty significantly leaning in an old-school direction? Not bad in the slightest. Is it great performance? Probably not, no. But anyone who thought 5.5e was going to roar back to exactly where 5.0...

And I personally believe that that is precisely what it is. It redesigned most classes, changed when you get class features, completely rewrote feats, rewrote or modified several spells, you don't get ability scores from race, etc. The rewriting of species and background has been a pretty...

Given how people caterwauled about Tasha's being 5.5e before we got actual 5.5e? No, they did not include "every publication some people considered different enough to be considered a significant" jump.

It literally actually wasn't though. Because you can, without changing anything, no house-rules, no conversion documents, absolutely nothing changed, play "original" 4e characters and Essentials-only characters at the same table. As long as you don't cross a class with itself, you can even...

My frank view is: they just won't publish anything at all at that point, or they entirely fob it off on third parties who have to play it safe because risky means too few sales. They were content to let 4e die on the vine for something like a year before the new-edition playtests began. I...

I like to walk a different line here. I have this conception of dragons-are-angels-are-dragons. Originally, you had two broods and a bunch of non-brood dragons. Dead Io, the Source from which the universe springs, produced many divine children, but Tiamat and Bahamut were the two greatest, and...

While that's perfectly fine, the question as asked was, "When will we get 5e's Bo9S?" In slightly different words, but they did specifically name-drop that, as well as Incarnum. And it wasn't just that. We also got the execrable but interesting Truenamer, and the Shadowcaster, and a variety of...

Very much wish I could vote 4e, but the correct answer is 5.5e. I understand that the "4e Essentials" line is there because folks think it's different....I just wish people would stop feeding that perspective.