Level Up (A5E) So I guess WotC thought A5E had some good ideas

[Khelben7]

5e gets a little wobbly on the topic, and pretty much does away with the distinction. It's mentioned in the classes, but there's no meaning to it.

I was in a party and four different spellcasters all cast Fireball... Sloppy imo. I would prefer different spells for different classes. And like they did in 4e - the monsters had individual powers - instead of the repeat button for spells, powers, attacks etc.

 

[darjr]

EDIT: Ninja'd like a billion times.

That’s gotta hurt a lot….


Or not at all…..

Dangit, OK.

I think cross pollination is going to happen. And the Level Up designers have good ideas!

 

[Ouronos]

Greetings...
To be fair, the first time I heard about "realms" for spell casting was via Rolemaster, and I always enjoyed that concept. Enjoyed it enough to try and work home-brewed rules in my other FRPGs to emulate something similar.

 

[Parmandur]

After a couple more of these playtest documents go out? Not all of what we've figured out is in just that document.

Interesting...

 

[Corinnguard]

It's an aasimar who is also a furry.

Not exactly. An Aasimar who is the descendant of a Guardinal has furry features that are mostly cosmetic. They might have feathers for hair if their ancestor was an Avoral. Claw-tipped fingers and a mane of hair if their ancestor was a Leonal. They might even be mistaken for a Half-Dragon if their ancestor was a Draconal (from PF1). But would they see themselves as Furries like some of us do in RL? Maybe, maybe not. They already have something a Furry can only dream of having.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

It is a stepping stone thing. One leads to the other and then the next.

Also, having spells organized by power source is…older than 4e?

Like…it’s not new.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

A5E is almost entirely next-gen designers, few with any relationship with WotC whatsoever.

And I’ve seen absolutely nothing convincing to suggest that the new ideas have any relationship to level up.

 

[thuter]

I mean, if I were to write a new tabletop system, I would absolutely steal all the good stuff from other editions and write new mechanics for the stuff that I didn't like or had good/better ideas about...