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Not really following it - it came off as pretty silly to me as people grew more extremes on their sides. Why is there no option to just go invisible or use illusions? Why use mind wipes instead of Sleep? Its an unrealistic white room scenario that I just can't take seriously. Plus, if you're...

I do more checks to see if someone can lift something heavy than actually carry it. "Can I grapple and carry this guy?" "Can I pick up this statue or knock over this pillar?"

You can cast plenty of Enchantments on yourself. Catnap, for example. Bless can target yourself. Stop making things up. It absolutely does. The overwhelming majority of published spells are desgined for exploring, dungeon delving and fighting "monsters." I'm going to call BS on this...

Depends on the mind control. Something that causes scarring and long lasting mental trauma? Plus, there's alternatives to being burned to death - knocking someone unconscious is a thing too. I'm just saying that some people tend to prefer experiencing physical pain to mental pain.

I do think its worth mentioning too that most people find that physical distress is preferable to mental or spiritual distress. There was apparently a psychological study or something about it. I vaguely remember that from college. Anyways, my point is that its possible that many people...

Curious minds inquiring. How do you feel about using Rogue as well? Or is it just Ranger?

And, yeah, that's understandably uncomfy. I can't say that's my experience, but I'm sure they're out there. EDIT - I still don't think its quite the intent of the game to use it in such a way; the game kind of assumes that you're playing Big Dang Heroes. But I can see where people will abuse...

People willingly take mind-altering drugs all the time. Booze and weed for fun, sleep aids, medicine prescribed by a therapist, herbal supplements to help with concentration, etc. These are all things that Enchantment school can do too in a positive manner. You're missing the point, perhaps...

I think that you're missing the fact that D&D is a violent game. Of course there's going to be a whole host of violent spells in every school (except Abjuration), because that's what the game revolves around. This is just a kind of selection bias - there's plenty of non-offensive potential in...

A bit late, but I'd like to take a moment and point out that Bless is an Enchantment school effect. If Bardic Inspiration was a spell, it'd also be Enchantment. Heroism. Sleep and Catnap have beneficial uses as a sleep aid. Zone of Truth has uses in a court room. Calm Emotion is drug-like...

I'll tolerate almost anything but intolerance, or anything to do with harming kids or rape in my games. Those are my three lines when it comes to gaming or media. Having issues with fictional religions in the game can swing either way on the intolerance scale, so its kind of a case by case...

Ish? If you flip your Patron the bird, you don't lose all your current abilities like a cleric or druid would, but Patrons are the ones that gives you new spells and abilities. Its equivalent to a wizard losing their spellbook- no way to learn new spells or trade them out, but you still have...

And lets stop ignoring that there's plenty of clerics that don't use the mace in D&D anymore either. So....

I would like to suggest rechecking the original Final Fantasy. The original white mage used hammers and maces inspired from the D&D counterpart. The class evolved from there to be more of a robe-and-staff kind of person over time, but there's no denying its roots originated from the D&D...

Who said anything about problems or in the way of anything? I was making an observation that "dark magic" in D&D is kind of stuck in a rut. That there's not a lot of variety.

I find it amusing that the White Mage is offered as an alternative to the cleric.... when its literally based on the cleric. The original final fantasy classes are based on D&D, after all. The heavily armored cleric is a relic of early d&d, sure. But other than swapping out armor for...

The different necromancy subclasses all step on each others' toes all the time. 5e Necromancer stole the Fiend Warlock's THP generation (inferno warlock had it in 4e too, and was known as Fiendish Resistance in 3e), and the ability of evil clerics to Rebuke Undead. Shadow Sorcerer...

The lack of commas in my writing has caused confusion, I see. Apologies. We've never had something called the Plane of Wood, but both feywild and plane of positive energy have been about rapid growth of plants as an aspect. Hense, the "plane of wood element" to fit real world elemental models.

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I've been thinking Feywild and Shadowfell are going to rejoin the Elemental Planes as the positive/negative planes, effectively making them the elemental planes of life/wood and rot we had pre-4e. Makes sense for druids-powered-by-inner-planes. YMMV