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what's wrong with excuses to include different casting mechanics? i mean, i can see what they were going for, one class that represents breadth of knowledge and the ability to learn new techniques, one that has a focused thematic core while being flexible and potent within it's niche, and a...

wasn't it determined in that thread that casters could consistently do like 80% of the damage of martials, often even with some extra control effects thrown in as secondary effects and it would be the least efficient use of their resources?

Give martials healing surges again, just add a line that says in their four entries ‘whenever you expend a hit die from this class to recover your HP you restore the die’s maximum value or 1/4 of your max HP, whichever is more, in addition to your CON mod’ and just watch the self recovery...

you're entitled to your own opinions of course but over half of these i would say fit neatly into existing class archetypes or at least don't deviate from them enough to warrant their own entire class and mechanics alchemist - artificer assassin - rogue avenger - paladin invoker - cleric...

oh goddammit 🤡

that's fair i guess, i have little personal attachment to the goliath due to not having history with previous editions and the orc fits the 'big guy' role well enough for me, i did consider swapping out the gnome for goblins but i feel small species are often a bit overlooked so i went with a...

symmetry with what?

i would rather we got goblins in place of goliaths and as @Minigiant mentioned, giving all species subspecies again and reimplementing half-elves and half-orcs (possibly as human subspecies rather than occupying a slot as their own entries?) i have a more general distaste for the feebleness of...

sounds like something someone who hasn't done enough nonmagical-training (or too much magical training) would say.

because it's a different toolset, not a better one.

it's all this suffix-punk that's been trending recently that's causing all the -punk to be around

i'm not saying no explanation is needed, but we have one and i'm saying stop complaining our explanation doesn't meet your specific personal standards.

voted NO. while i think DnD is moved out of the medieval aesthetic a good bit steampunk is a specific aesthetic all it's own which DnD does not check most of the boxes for and is not just the following step in the fantasy timeline of tech progession. DnD is more magitech than steampunk. that...

i think it's worthwhile, it measures a fundamentally different concept than the other two, ability scores measure your innate adeptness at a situation, dis/advantage is a representation of situational factors and proficiency (or the lack thereof) measures if you know how to properly perform a...

i'm not saying no-one disagrees with me or that it's just you who does it, you however, do seem to grind the discussion to a halt demanding an answer for how fantasy people in a fantasy world do standard fantasy things every time it comes up and it's just. so. tiresome.

but the low number of abilities on your character wasn't the issue itself was it? i'm just thinking there always seems to be some discussion or other about how complicated it is to know your characters, especially at higher levels when abilities start piling up, that saying 'okay, everyone only...

bounded accuracy was a good idea but i think they were working with too small bonuses numbers, they were too afraid of creating challenges that required high enough DC that some people just couldn't attempt them they ending up falling into the opposite problem and let things become too dictated...

yeah, for a zero to hero scale that goes from 0 to 100, 5e 1st level characters are already starting out at like, a 15 or 20.

i was just thinking 'what if 6e implemented gritty realism timescale as standard but added another shorter rest to fill the between battle space heroic short rests occupied' and realized i think i just reinvented 4e's encounter, daily and ultimate powers ...no wait, the U in AEDU stood for...

No,. i know you've already been given this answer in several threads a dozen times over, we're not derailing another just to satisfy micah sweet's worldbuilding grouses yet again for a game you by your own admittance have little to no interest in playing yourself. it's a fantasy word, people...