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I agree that wizards have too much ppwer in their mainclass. Thats why I would do wizard as a subclass for a mage like explained here: D&D General - [+] For (hypothetical) 6e: Which arcane caster class should be the "simple" one? Well a simple caster does not necessary need to use "spell...

How long is combat meant to take? Because the "standard" at the moment is 2-3 turns. And then having to spent several turns to cast a ritual might be too much. 13th age, which already has some longer than average number of rounds, has several classes which can "concentrate" for 1 round. Which...

But the amount of multi attacks was never that big. It is also in pre essential 4e just a small part of the attacks to strikers. The problem is more that the optinization crowd for some reason assumed that this 10% should be the baseline. If we just assume othet attacks as a baseline then...

Why does simpler have to mean weak? The 2014 does not put its weight because the people who created it were bad at math and way way overestimate how strong crits are. The simple classes (ranger and paladin) in 13th age, which is a D&D like, are pulling their weight. In 4E the elementalist...

For me crafting pretty much always just sounds like a waste of space in the rulebook. Gloomhaven RPG for me is the worst offender I have recently saw. I have not seen a single game where I found crafting really interesting, and it brings a lot of complexity to the items part, which often...

I think the problem is more that multiattack scales too well. And this just makes 10% of powers too strong compared to all others. Vampire does have good basic attacks, including opportunity attacks (but not much invisibility to really use it well), and can do charge optimization if wanted, so...

I think the core issue is more that hardcore optimization boards often fail to understand that you can have advantages outside your "main role". Also a vampire fits a lot better to be a striker than a defender especially with this mechanic, since a defender can lose potentially several healing...

They have different mechanics (in some editions). In D&D 4e Humans were flexible but you were just more flexible in your class. Meanwhile half elfs let you be flexible but mixing your class with another class. Same as a half elf is human mixed with something more strange. Elfs I find often...

In the medium term the rogue and barbarian will need better weapons to not be completly outclassed by the casters. I agree that +2 weapons are a bit boring, but thats just how it is. Of course belt of giants strength is also god, but there a paladin profits more than the others and we dont...

Pixie: Flying and really small which makes the race quite unique. Also what vould be better as a lazy warlord than a small picie sitting on your shoulders telling you whst to do. Genasi: (not genasai) incredible flexibel and with acidsoul genasi one of the voolest racial abilities ever...

I wanted to say its not just rhe design language but also the gamedesign space of 5e but You kind of said the same thing later. I think this has not only to do with the complexity bjt depth of 5e and game design space. I think Beacon or even strike, which both are more streamlined than 5ey...

Well not 100% exactly the same but in the PF1 based Final Fantasy D20 one cleric subclass really has to decide on specific deities and get from them specific abilities: Disciple of the Twelve These gods also each have a description etc: Halone the Fury And in general the deitic orders have...

You know also RPGs can evolve and adapt better more modern gamedesign. "RPGs are not boardgames" and similar thinking just keeps RPGs from evolving and getting better. RPGs and boardgames are games you play together with other people, so its naturally to learn from one another. See these kind...

No. Really not. Asymmetric boardgame and other game manage this. We just need to come away from seeing thr GM as a higher being. A GM is just 1 player with an asynchronous position. Maybe we should rven change the word from dungeon master to dungeon slave to counterbalance this "GS is god"...

This does add another roll for minions though. One reason minions have only 1 health originally is to make them as fast and simple to handle as possible. With this rule you need a damage roll + another roll. (+ anothet stat on minions). In a vtt its easier but even there you need to have and...

If you think about running Draw Steel, then I would instead suggest Beacon. Goes in a sinilar direction, but is a lot more streamlined and the rulebook is soooo much bettet so its much easier to learn for you. Its easy to make premade characters, the only complex thing are the phases for...

Ah ok sure can understand that. But for me what makes the truespeaker interesting is the different way of casting. Including the "rules" which some people hate. (Given a high enough bonus to truespeak). Lets say you have a 130-150% chance to hit. Each spell has 2 modes and each time you...

But this rule makes most of the truename "metamagic" completly unusable. Quicken especially with a check of +20. So this is after level 9 a lot weaker than a normal truespeaker who is allowed to get skill boosting items. (Typical Crafted 5/10/15 competence item, silvery tongue amulet 5/10...

A lot more is actually possible. The truenamer had a quickcast "metamagic" which gave -20 on the truename check. And it is possible to hit sometimes with them. So having a >100% chance to hit is possible. (There are 2 types of 5/10/15 bonus to a skill check items (different bonus type) existing...

On top of this: I would also say these options are too many and still not interesting. All you do is just damage. Even martials got away from that in 5.24. You dont need 3 different area attack and 2 single target attacks. Having 1 area attack and 1 single target attack which do have...