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This is not a theoretical problem eith sufficiently deft design though it is very much a practical one. Feats, to scale, could be multiplicative. Imaginr the following effects. Triple your jump distance and always count as having a running jump Jump a height equal to your long jump distance...

It's a mix. On the one hand it wouldn't matter if the fighter did a thousand damage per sword swing if they had the same 30' of movement and 5' of reach they did at level 1. They still can't deal with kiting casters (without ranged weapons) or walls of force or teleportation. Fighter damage...

The problem here is power scaling. As I've said before and will say again how mundane you can practically be depends on your level. If you go back to AD&D at level 8 as a fighter you were literally called a superhero. Level 10 is a superhero game, period. If you want to avoid superheroes then...

Absolutely. They weren't in any way at all spells with the serial numbers badly filed off. Levitate, Psionic Psychoportation Level: Nomad 2, psion/wilder 2, psychic warrior 2 Display: Olfactory Manifesting Time: 1 standard action Range: Personal or close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2...

Everything from the PHB isn't getting reprinted but revised. I believe they've said that they are also revising the Tasha's subclasses they've mentioned. They're calling it the Revised PHB - which seems to be what it is. Battlemaster Fighter, Champion Fighter, Hand Monk, two of the Thief...

The 2024 designers on occasion tried to subtract with things like the half-assed half-casting warlock. And player feedback prevented it. And when they tried to add things like the brawler they were just not well done. Just because an idea is new doesn't mean that it's good.

Given that the buckler was a shield they can't do that at all. And swashing was walking with a swagger and a sword. But they need some sort of acrobatics and deception bonuses at the least, rather than just attacks.

The playtest one was awful. 100% of its abilities were for combat.

Ancestries are Pathfinder

Although a place or a weather event is technically nonhuman it is not what is normally meant by the term. The Astral Plane and Elemental Chaos are places, Storm a place, and Aberrant Minds are arguable. Cars are not themselves human but they are human technology despite using the magic or fuel...

The issue I have here is that in my experience players love growth in line with story progression. It's just D&D that's very bad at providing it.

The problem is that what "an edition of the game" is is so different from WotC-D&D to most games that there is little clear consensus. 2e, 3.0, 4e, and 5e are so different that they might as well be separate games - and by any normal standards of I think any other RPG 3.0 -> 3.5 would definitely...

So, given that you don't need extraordinary events for backstories for good characters, why does the wizard (and as far as I know only the wizard) need one?

Warlord I think could work under the fighter banner - starting with a couple of warlord-y fighting styles to make the warlord meaningfully worse at combat than a fighter as they spend the resources on support. And bringing warlord into fighter would help deal with higher level emptiness...

This is true from my perspective (and I've played far more wizards over the years than sorcerers). This thread is literally entitled "the sorcerer shouldn't exist" and is proposing eliminating the sorcerer in favour of thf wizard from the OP. If one goes then both logically and thematically it...

Now if you want how I would write a wizard subclass of sorcerer it's that wizards have, through study and practice managed to safely reproduce sorcerer magical events to enable themselves to cast like sorcerers. When Vyrathis Stormborn was hit by lightning from the Century Storm and survived he...

More flights of fancy here. That was actual wordplay. Not me pointing out that you are making up fluff about both wizard and sorcerer. This is not in dispute that this is how the overwhelming majority of wizards do it. It is also not actually mechanically supported in any way other than a...

No they don't. Most will - but a compelling character does not require a compelling backstory. In fact the point of some characters (including the LotR hobbits) includes not having their backstories dominated by specific events. Sometimes the most compelling thing to do for a story is take a...

No they don't. Most will - but a compelling character does not require a compelling backstory. In fact the point of some characters (including the LotR hobbits) includes not having their backstories dominated by specific events. Sometimes the most compelling thing to do for a story is take a...

Do they really need an extraordinary event to go into a high paying profession? Because I wouldn't call any of "born the kid of a doctor, got great grades at school, then made it into med school" to be outright extraordinary.