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They implied it couldn't be done, but it seems like something any hero engineer in Star Trek history jury-rig in a matter of seconds. Also are holodecks also replicators now? I don't remember it ever being established that food and drink in holodecks work, but many of the extended holodeck...

Well, episode 4 maintains the streak of the show being much better and more satisfying than prior seasons. They're really stretching to get the most use out of that Ten Forward set possible. It was one thing using it in episode 3, but they use it in two more ways in episode 4, one of which is...

I think the real sales pitch for 5.5 is a quiet threat of "buy in, or be left behind by the zeitgeist". It was a pretty effective pitch for some of us, but highly dependent on the perceived inevitability of OneD&D imminently dominating the hobby and the D&D cultural scene. Post OGL-debacle they...

Oh absolutely. I was definitely speaking way outside the realm of what might be in any variation of D&D branded 5e game anytime soon. But in the coming clone age there will be 5e flavors available for all tastes.

Well, it is when the rules revisions are basically a wash for most people. If they were addressing a bunch of things that had been widely agreed upon complaints about 5e I think it would be a different story. If there were more widely agreed upon complaints about 5e, things that most people...

I mean, personally I think Warlock should be a prestige class (or set of prestige classes) for after you form a pact with some being of great power. Generally I think that's how a slew of character ideas that presume some sort of highly consequential event (like getting knighted or contracting...

I mean, I take the stance that Rage is transformative and major enough to warrant a subclass based around it, but otherwise I agree. In many systems its perfectly fine as a class, but the 5e class/subclass schemes just demands too many variants for what is a pretty thematically one-note class...

A lot of it has to do with the fact that magic has license to follow completely arbitrary rules, whereas anything purporting to be actual martial combat is expected to at least have some sliver of grounding in how people think historical combat worked. Magic can also be more readily limited to...

My own 5e clone game's take on the Barbarian is just a subclass of my Warrior class that gets rage so far. I'm not opposed to having a full class for it, but I struggle to think of enough subclasses to base off of it. 5e's solution of making a bunch of different types of magic barbarian doesn't...

I mean that sort of detail might make sense in a game about humanoids fighting humanoids in a pseudo-medieval fantasy world. What makes bringing in much of the subtleties of real world fighting technique a terrible fit for D&D is that neither the Venetian school or the Neapolitan school have...

Harry Potter is the best know fantasy setting that has a comparable base level of magic to what D&D assumes. Which is fine, I just wish the market leader in fantasy gaming made setting assumptions in line with more typical fantasy storytelling.

So I've been making a 5e clone game of my own that also uses a standard subclass progression, which due largely to chance (and where one can fit these things), happened to end up almost the same as WotC's for OneD&D. In any case I did have a breakthrough in terms of realizing that I could have...

I would have preferred to see them as PC builds. If one of them has a feature that's awesome in the movie and can't be replicated on a PC in the actual game then it's time to design a new subclass, feat, etc. to support that, within reason, in play, not shunt them off to being sui generis npcs...

Says a My Little Pony, with an eyepatch.

Obviously it ends featuring characters from Transformers, GI Joe, and whatever other properties will eventually be part of the Hasbro Cinematic Universe.

Fair points all. I personally don't think the number of people who will decided to play versus not play based on the factors you mention is likely to exceed the number of people who avoid the new edition because they don't want to buy a bunch of new books and learn a bunch of new rules just to...

What about OneD&D makes it more capable of reaching "further masses" than the existing game? What is the "unifying" force your envision? In any case I own most of the 5e books and intend to keep playing it or derivations of it indefinitely, but I'm not sure I'll even get a PHB for OneD&D, a...

For people without a prior relationship with the 5e rules set it is a pretty middle of the road crpg. Obviously games with rules built for computer gaming are going to have more potential to be good computer games, and Solasta has extra ugly facemorphs and pretty anemic voice-acting (not...

No, it's really not. Also I don't care. Obviously its two systems. It's two systems that are probably going to be pretty easy for a savvy user to navigate between, but if you had a group of newbies and half of them had 5e PHBs and half of them had 5.5 PHBs, my prediction is that it would be a...

Let's go with Shadow Sorcerer/Hexblade Warlock/Assassin Rogue. I just consider a Sorcerer, someone born with intrinsic magical power welling up inside them, pledging fealty to serve some other being intrinsically the most edgy-boy build, and doubly so if that being is an inanimate magic sword...