D&D 5E Should martial characters be mundane or supernatural?

[Oofta]

Maybe they could make a book with a bunch of content we would use?

No. That's crazy.

People complaining that they can buy just the bits and pieces they actually want is what I find crazy.

 

[Oofta]

Absolutely. You buy a small piece of something, instead of a larger packaged release. Absolutely its microtransactions.

I don't see how that's a bad thing.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I've always wondered if other RPG games have the same requirement for kit bashing as D&D. Do Call of Cthulhu fans want an option for fighting vampires? Shadowrun fans want warp drive technology? Starfinder fans demanding the option for Superheroes? D&D is the only game I know where people expect to be a dessert topping and a floor wax.

Other games have a coherent playstyle and design philosophy.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I don't see how that's a bad thing.

Maybe we don't want all our game material in the form of digital bits and pieces?

 

[Oofta]

Maybe we don't want all our game material in the form of digital bits and pieces?

Then the good news is that they have no plans to stop selling books.

 

[Scribe]

I don't see how that's a bad thing.

It has a negative effect on other forms of media/entertainment, and I have no reason to believe it wont have a negative impact on D&D as well.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Then the good news is that they have no plans to stop selling books.

But again, they're selling books which contain diminishing proportions of worthwhile content. Every time someone buys 1/17 of a product off D&D Beyond, they're telling WotC they have no interest in the other 16/17. This to me says they need to step up their content game.

 

[Maxperson]

Go bards!

You just need one.

 

[Maxperson]

What are you basing this on? Have you done any broad based polls or surveys like WOTC has?

You, and a handful of posters are not a majority.

I would bet good money that if you polled all D&D players and asked if they wanted a cool new class, the majority would say yes.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

- you can't even compare classes, they all use spells, you have to take it down to sub-classes....

Because you are using class in a way that makes it separate from subclass, the above statement is false. Fighter, Rogue, Barbarian, Monk, all have a class that doesn’t cast spells, with Monk being the closest to breaking that requirement. Each of them also has subclasses that cast no spells.