D&D General The Resurrection of Mike Mearls Games.

[mearls]

I think his class design posts are public? If so, y'all might want to read them. His recent posts on druids, and the one before that on clerics, taught me a lot!

They are all available under the free subscription tier. Glad to hear they are useful!

 

[Muh]

It has been a fantastic Patreon so far. What I'll also say is this: it's hilarious how different Mearls' view is on things then the community's. His views on Druid were amazing to read, and very vindicating too.

Can you summarise his opinion on Druid?

 

[darjr]

I'm planning on doing that! Working on figuring out a good streaming set up. A few projects are ahead of it in the queue right now, but once those are cleared I'd love to start doing design streams again.

Woot!!!

Please, if you would, include YouTube? And vod.

 

[mearls]

Woot!!!

Please, if you would, include YouTube? And vod.

Will do!

 

[Zaukrie]

Can you summarise his opinion on Druid?

https://www.patreon.com/posts/druid-subclass-105570349

 

[mearls]

Can you summarise his opinion on Druid?

A real quick summary:

• Wild shape is, IME, what makes many people want to play a druid.
• In practice, it creates a huge pool of extra hit points that makes druids weirdly durable.
• Wild shape damage also lags at high levels.
• Because the druid is a full caster, we don't have a big power budget for subclasses.
• All of that together means that circle of the moon packs a ton of core functionality that anyone who likes wild shape wants. It makes designing alternatives difficult.

I'm really looking forward to the 2024 refresh of the druid. I know the ranger and monk get a lot of attention, but my experience working on subclasses showed me that the druid is the most difficult class to work with.

 

[Zaukrie]

A real quick summary:

• Wild shape is, IME, what makes many people want to play a druid.
• In practice, it creates a huge pool of extra hit points that makes druids weirdly durable.
• Wild shape damage also lags at high levels.
• Because the druid is a full caster, we don't have a big power budget for subclasses.
• All of that together means that circle of the moon packs a ton of core functionality that anyone who likes wild shape wants. It makes designing alternatives difficult.

I'm really looking forward to the 2024 refresh of the druid. I know the ranger and monk get a lot of attention, but my experience working on subclasses showed me that the druid is the most difficult class to work with.

You're a terrible sales person! Gotta link to your patreon! Which I did.

 

[Muh]

https://www.patreon.com/posts/druid-subclass-105570349

Thanks, but my hesitation was because I did not have an account on Patreon. I got one just now. Reluctantly.

 

[Zaukrie]

Thanks, but my hesitation was because I did not have an account on Patreon. I got one just now. Reluctantly.

I hope you find it worth it!

 

[Shardstone]

Which parts of the community?

Reddit.