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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8297425" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>I thought this as well. Some interesting bits that come to mind:</p><p></p><p>1. Though "PB uses, regained with long rest" has largely replaced the short-rest-recharge mechanic, using short rests has NOT been completely excised like some were suggesting. Some features let you realign your focus or otherwise adapt, and there's no evidence they intend to shift the Warlock to being long-rest-based. I'm assuming this is their way of mostly solving the "too few short rests" problem, but that they will continue to iterate on it up until an official 5.5e-equivalent.</p><p></p><p>2. They're getting bolder and more flexible in a LOT of ways. I was...leery about the idea of poly-class subclasses, but these seem to be done pretty well. Not perfectly, but not nearly as bad as I feared. It's...not easy for me to say this, because in general I'm VERY critical of the poly-class subclass concept...but I have to admit when I see it done reasonably well. The Lorehold companion is an excellent demonstration of how to integrate a strong, useful companion without making it overpowered, at least at first blush. Etc. This gives me hope that an eventual 5.5e might actually get over its forebear's <em>intense</em> dislike of doing anything that looks remotely like 4e.</p><p></p><p>3. Spells that don't count against your spells known. That's pretty huge, since they explicitly shied away from that choice back when people got upset over the playtest Storm Sorcerers being stronger than other Sorcs by way of bonus spells. At the time, their excuse was (effectively) "wow okay we get it, this is a power bump and that would devalue older options...but we cannot do large-scale errata sooooo...we'll just nix that feature!" Which kinda fell flat at the time and remained a sore spot for Sorc fans. Honestly to me this is the strongest evidence yet that we actually WILL get a 5.5e-equivalent somewhere along the line, because it represents an explicit turnaround on a policy...that can only be fairly applied to <em>older</em> classes if they do large-scale errata or full-on rewrites of core, PHB options. </p><p></p><p>So yeah. I'm still not sure how to feel about the fact that these options ACTUALLY excite me, just a little. As a major major 4e fan, I've long felt snubbed by 5e, and this...almost kind-of vaguely sorta suggests potentially they might consider thinking about walking back parts of 5e that felt so exclusionary to my preferences and interests.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8297425, member: 6790260"] I thought this as well. Some interesting bits that come to mind: 1. Though "PB uses, regained with long rest" has largely replaced the short-rest-recharge mechanic, using short rests has NOT been completely excised like some were suggesting. Some features let you realign your focus or otherwise adapt, and there's no evidence they intend to shift the Warlock to being long-rest-based. I'm assuming this is their way of mostly solving the "too few short rests" problem, but that they will continue to iterate on it up until an official 5.5e-equivalent. 2. They're getting bolder and more flexible in a LOT of ways. I was...leery about the idea of poly-class subclasses, but these seem to be done pretty well. Not perfectly, but not nearly as bad as I feared. It's...not easy for me to say this, because in general I'm VERY critical of the poly-class subclass concept...but I have to admit when I see it done reasonably well. The Lorehold companion is an excellent demonstration of how to integrate a strong, useful companion without making it overpowered, at least at first blush. Etc. This gives me hope that an eventual 5.5e might actually get over its forebear's [I]intense[/I] dislike of doing anything that looks remotely like 4e. 3. Spells that don't count against your spells known. That's pretty huge, since they explicitly shied away from that choice back when people got upset over the playtest Storm Sorcerers being stronger than other Sorcs by way of bonus spells. At the time, their excuse was (effectively) "wow okay we get it, this is a power bump and that would devalue older options...but we cannot do large-scale errata sooooo...we'll just nix that feature!" Which kinda fell flat at the time and remained a sore spot for Sorc fans. Honestly to me this is the strongest evidence yet that we actually WILL get a 5.5e-equivalent somewhere along the line, because it represents an explicit turnaround on a policy...that can only be fairly applied to [I]older[/I] classes if they do large-scale errata or full-on rewrites of core, PHB options. So yeah. I'm still not sure how to feel about the fact that these options ACTUALLY excite me, just a little. As a major major 4e fan, I've long felt snubbed by 5e, and this...almost kind-of vaguely sorta suggests potentially they might consider thinking about walking back parts of 5e that felt so exclusionary to my preferences and interests. [/QUOTE]
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