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I like Weakened as a condition a la stunned or prone! Poisoned could be a part of that condition, indeed, while what is now Poison Damage could be Toxic Damage and Poison could be key-worded to refer specifically to the concoctions that cause various conditions or detrimental effects. I also...

The Outlands are becoming interesting to me because the closer you get to Sigil, the less magic works and the more neutral-bargaining-ground they become. The further you get from Sigil, the more magic works, and the weirder things become as they bleed into the outer planes. I also REALLY want...

Damn, WotC making me actually care about The Outlands - previously the most boring part of Planescape (minus Sigil, of course, which is practically its own plane given that you can't actually enter it from its torus exterior). Sad. I liked Glitchling.

You're correct that mechanics create opportunities for narrative, and narratives should inspire mechanics. However, fiction drives mechanics. The fiction is and should always be first and foremost in an RPG like D&D. It's subtle, but important. Not all Monks should be Tanks, because the...

Right. Hence why the fiction of character archetypes should be directly supported by the mechanics of character archetypes. They should generate exciting ideas because we relate them to tropes and concepts we're familiar with. It's fiction forward, not mechanics forward.

I'm not sure where the idea that I'm nitpicking is coming from. I was throwing out examples from myths and folklore, not from history, fyi. But my POINT is that the Bard is broad scope by definition, and it makes more sense that a high level Bard would be synthesizing these power sources while...

Likely will get a Psionic Spell List later on when they NEED to tackle Psionics in a more extensive way for Dark Sun. Relatively easy to add a spell list in a campaign setting or a rules expansion book, and say that Bards can choose Psionic Magic instead of Arcane, Divine, or Primal Magic. (and...

Only because Yaarel's mythologically accurate Bard statement required them to be all 3 magic power sources. But moreso, I'd say it's because D&D isn't mythologically accurate, it's tropologically accurate. Mythological Druids are by and large Clerics, some might be Nature Domain, others...

The fiction matters FAR MORE than the mechanics. The mechanics needs to support the fiction, not the other way around.

No, Thunderwave is once again an evocation according to the designer notes. If it’s listed accidentally as a transmutation somewhere, that’s a copy error. I ask again, where was Necromancer explicitly confirmed?

So I would imagine the mythologically accurate Bard would be one of 10+ levels in the class.

Yup! As it is acid is being used for caustic alkalis too. Though I’ve always thought that bases should be Poison damage in dnd because our sense of bitter flavour was developed to avoid poisons of the Basic variety. But when it comes to the fiction of the chemical burn, yeah, D&D uses acid...

The fiction of dodge mobility includes High armored defense and features that turn hits into misses, but also perhaps a subclass feature that does damage reduction or provides THP representing “near hits”.

Mobility protects the group if you’re both dodiging the attacks and aggro-ing the enemy’s attention. Such things have and still exist in D&D - such as gaining Opportunity Attacks that punish enemies for targeting someone other than you. 5e should actively support this fiction in the class that...

Dodge-Tank is a thing. No, they don't want to get hit. Yes, they do want to be the subject of attention. It's the opposite sort of tank/defender from Fighter and Barbarian and Paladin who want to soak up blows and shrug it off due to massive defenses, damage reductions, and HP sponges. Dodge...

Sure, but that would be more like a Bladesinger, Warmage, Chronurgist, Graviturgist, or Scribe - not a School Specialist Wizard but a cool Wizard-y concept subclass. The Spell School subclasses still need to be somewhere. At least Thunderwave is no longer a transmutation…

Oh I'm sure it will, Oh, I'm sure it will, but I just feel like if anything Necromancer would be exiled to the DMG like Death Domain and Oathbreaker… And Transmuter was in Essentials Kit so it's what WotC considers "Subclass #2" for the class.

Botanist and/or Monster part resource user, Fleshweaver (Dr. Frankenstein), Swordmage/Armamentalist (Forge Adept is basically this, but it's also Keith Baker homebrew), Magitechnician/Engineer/Tinkerer, Physicist messing with the laws of reality (Dunamancy Artificer?), Mathematician/Geometer...

Yeah, I'm still confused by it. I wish Poison Damage was called like Toxin Damage. It's given to venomous things just as often as poisonous things.

How about calling them Power Points and return the Monk to being Psionic as it was in 4e? *edit: I've always thought of PP = Power Points, rather than Psi Points, due to Golden Sun using it for their Psynergetic Powers. Of course, in Japan, they're EP - Energy Points, and Psynergy is just...