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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 9751731" data-attributes="member: 2067">OK! Point-by-point...I'm in. Classes border on over-designed.How might you work archetypes/subclasses in here?Also, what's stopping  you from going even further in reducing class size? Like, if we had 10 levels of play, but one class per tier. So, like, you'd be a Warrior from level 1-4 (maybe with "mundane, but powerful" features) and then you could take the Ranger or Paladin or Barbarian or Knight or whatever class from 5-10....Eh. I think reacting to "problematic spells" is not a great foundation for design in and of itself. That said, I'm on board in principle with moving certain key features out of spell slots and into class features.For instance, maybe it's OK to make Fireball into an Evoker feature and not a spell that every wizard casts? (that specific spell might be controversial, hahaha, but I like the general idea of exclusive magical features that don't rely on spell slots)Sure. But, the specific design you're proposing leaves me a little cold.On board, but this is a slightly bigger can of worms. Specifically, I'm curious as to how this healing is distinct from casting healing word. Is it just cosmetics (ie, you can do it without spending a spell slot, or you can do it and it doesn't "count" as magic)? These are potentially a red flag for me. I don't want to have to spend more time and more effort on fights than I currently do. In fact, I already spend TOO MUCH time on combat. More decision points and more special effects won't make my D&D sessions any better, and, in fact, will drag them down more. Some is OK, but even the weapon masteries in current D&D introduce a lot of complexity.I want to run in the other direction, where D&D is not so much a game about fighting monsters as it is a game about dungeon-fantasy roleplaying in which sometimes you will fight monsters. Nah, I don't need smaller niches for the rules to disappear within.Crits are fun. Mechanics that limit them are "time to stop having fun, I guess."I think this is a bigger discussion, because having a class feature that lets you know if you could take someone in a fight is not a social mechanic in my mind. Seems reactionary, again. What do we actually want out of our HP system? I think you're circling around some pretty good issues, though you're bogged down a little in reacting to the current design more than creating a vision of what this game could be.</blockquote>

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