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<blockquote data-quote="Manabarbs" data-source="post: 6153235" data-attributes="member: 6717251">Very little of that modularity involves anything that feels all that unique to Next; I have a more difficult time calling it something &quot;the designers have been trying&quot;, rather than just emergent properties of those elements that are present in similar amounts in other editions of D&amp;D. The big exception is the proposed mechanic of allowing +1 to an ability score as a feat, which I guess everyone has just sort of collectively decided counts as being able to not use feats on an individual basis, or on a group basis with less deviation from the baseline character power level. Sure, you can both cut out some races and/or ignore race as a game mechanic entirely in Next, but that's true of any edition of D&amp;D. It's true that (with only minor exceptions), Next's current design doesn't do any worse, but that's not a super high bar.I think that the easiest way to play without what you call &quot;subclasses&quot; would be to just pretend like one of them is what you get and ignore the others. I think that the design limitations of trying to make every &quot;subclass&quot; similarly high-impact so that they can all be dropped are probably just too severe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manabarbs, post: 6153235, member: 6717251"] Very little of that modularity involves anything that feels all that unique to Next; I have a more difficult time calling it something "the designers have been trying", rather than just emergent properties of those elements that are present in similar amounts in other editions of D&D. The big exception is the proposed mechanic of allowing +1 to an ability score as a feat, which I guess everyone has just sort of collectively decided counts as being able to not use feats on an individual basis, or on a group basis with less deviation from the baseline character power level. Sure, you can both cut out some races and/or ignore race as a game mechanic entirely in Next, but that's true of any edition of D&D. It's true that (with only minor exceptions), Next's current design doesn't do any [I]worse[/I], but that's not a super high bar. I think that the easiest way to play without what you call "subclasses" would be to just pretend like one of them is what you get and ignore the others. I think that the design limitations of trying to make every "subclass" similarly high-impact so that they can all be dropped are probably just too severe. [/QUOTE]

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