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I just think opening it up for everybody, all at once, is a much safer option, and much less likely to upset a sizeable portion of players. Why do something that they know will piss people off (even if the complaints are disingenuous, and not based in the truth), when you don't have to? Sure...

Do you honestly think if WOTC decided to let some 3rd party game designers sell their work on DnD Beyond, but don't let everybody participate, that there won't be a large group of people that gets incredibly mad and starts accusing WOTC of all sorts of nefarious plans?

I sure that would go over great with pissed off d&d fans. I am sure that nobody would ever be upset or complain about how WOTC was picking favorites and punishing people.

That sounds about right. In most cases the new great weapon is better. The old version is really only better if you have optimized for it. You have a lot of attacks and a reliable way to gain advantage or a large hit bonus. Something to remember is the 5e weapon master is almost...

I didn't have a have a problem when they first mentioned it, but once I actually started trying to build characters I found it way to restricted. I like the idea of splitting up feats in to different groups for organizational purposes, just not the restrictions. It would actually speed up and...

Did your analysis of the two weapon master feats include the +1 Strength the new feat gives as well? If it did, and I misread it, causing confusions and us to talk past each other. If that is the case I apologize and I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. If you didn't include it in your...

That really is the simplest and cleanest way to do it. I think it could work to allow your pact blade to be any melee weapon and the damage is 1d10 or the original damage, if it is higher. Then let the warlock attack with their casting stat only if the weapon has finesse or light. That way...

I am not contradicting myself. Of course once you pick one of the pact options you will write it down on your character sheet, and won't need to look it up again. I was just pointing out that it is really annoying when you are deciding what pact you are going to choose, you need to keep...

Well literally almost everything about the 1D&D champion is just as good as the 2014 fight or better. Some things are a lot better, Looking at you Indomitable with second wind and survivor. The only parts of a fighter that someone could argue are nerfed are action surge (it's still as good...

That is still kind of a problem on a forum like this. It doesn't really help the situation in any way, because the people participating on this thread have no reason to go back and reread your original post. If you are going to go back and edit an old post, you should really make a new post...

This really makes me want to play in a party where they are all members of a boy band.

But why? Literally the only time someone is ever going to need to look up these spells is when they gain them when leveling up. Look at the Warlock Pacts, why should a player need to flip through the spell section and look up the 3 different spells, in 3 different locations? When you could...

The fighters are basically identical other than Weapon Masteries... and the large buff to second wind, and the large buff to Indomitable, the several large buff the the Champion subclass (a free floating skill, free advantage, and Defy death make it impossible to for a fighter to be killed while...

You started out comparing the damage of the old Great Weapon Master to the new one. I thought we were talking about optimizing damage on a fighter. After all that is the fighter classes primary schtick. You don't think that when comparing whether the old or new fighter does more damage...

Why does if matter if they are stronger because of the feats or because of the class. They are still stronger. Fighters get two extra feats vs most classes. The extra fighter feats are class features, that make the new fighter stronger. I guess I just don't really see the point of analyzing...

I love the idea of turning some character options into spells, but I can't see a reason to place them in the spell section. If you have a spell that the only way to receive it is from your class, it should just be listed in the class entry by the level you receive it. My guess is that that is...

I am not saying Pact Blade warlocks are perfect, but they are a hell of a lot better than they used to be. It's a good start, but they still have more work to do. But, hey, it's a first draft in a playtest. Finding these sorts of problems is what the playtest is for. It's still early we...

Yeah, it adds a lot with out taking up much space. Removing it from all the monsters in the monster manual would free up less than a thousand words. More than that, It wouldn't really free up any space in the monster manual. Nearly every monster in the book takes up a full page. Removing a...

No problem. It is easy to do. I made a big mistake last night reading the weapon masteries. After nearly a decade with the same rules, getting a large playtest package with new rules can make it pretty confusing. It is going to take all of us a while to fully internalize all of the new...

Truthfully I don't think any of my players would try that. I meant it more in case I had a new or casual player that only had the 2014 PHB and didn't want to learn all the new rules. If I had a player who wanted to use the 2014 rules to build a cookie cutter "optimized build", I would just...