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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8970257" data-attributes="member: 93670">In the video a couple days ago crawford mentioned something that made me think about wotc designing each class feature in isolation rather than as a sum of their parts.  He got asked something like why tiny form was so high in level & mentioned how it was because as a tiny creature you still have all of the wildshape stuff and the benefits of size tiny.  The way he described it though only really worked if you use the old wildshape to have a tiny bear or whatever.  With the new wildshape it's the druid's base HP, an AC that's probably no better than the base druid & quite possibly less than a freshly minted level one paladin's AC.  Under that new wildshape the justification described for such a high level on tiny form starts breaking down pretty badly.That's important because so much of casters in 5e (druid especially) feels like every individual piece was designed to counter a 3.x problem in isolation(often theoretical white room thought experiment level problems)In aggregate those things amount to much more than the sum of their parts & create new problems that actually manifest in play without the need for theoretical whiteroom thought experiments.</blockquote>