do elaborate, surely you aren't just referring to a handful of player options & tables like the one when using a magic item or casting a spell in hazlan? You mean actual mechanics that can be modularly swapped in to replace or supersede some existing set of overly simplistic mechanics? Don't let me stop you from elaborating. I've already mentioned fear stress survivors & a handful of tables.
Didn't say it was more rigid than older editions. Just that it is still rigid. Medium Well is still darker than Medium. The last few fighter subclasses are magic knights as there's little else to go with fighters that is balanced with Champions and Battlemasters.
Too bad they aren't making those anymore. Again rigid.
No new armor modules or weapon modules. Theros uses medieval weapons and armor. No African, Asian, or American equipment changes. Ravenloft doesn't change many mechanics if any at all. Everything is FR with different races and reflavor locations and gods.
Gestalt classes. Dualclassing. Skill tricks.
I said it's near the death knell. I said they only have 2 years of good content left if they don't go big or revise. Then you will get Peace Barbarians, Wildcold druids, Abyss Warlock, and Generalist Wizard with your Good Drow, Gully Dwarves, and Evil Halflings.
20 pages of character material (not counting intro material and the ticket table), 33 pages of Monsters, and 18 pages of DM material for running Horror Adventures (not counting the actual Adventuremodiule; and yes, tables play a big role). There is also the 22 page chapter on cresting a custom Domain of Dread, which is meaty and full of delicious tables ( honestly, good random tables are a bigger boon than most other mechanics). The remaining 120 odd pages in Chapter 3 have mechanical goodies spread around as well.
So what? Tasha's provided a bunch of Battlemaster builds to demonstrate how to do different archetypes with the Battlemaster.
The new Lineage regime is actually much b less rigid, and allows the designers to focus on what makes an option unique: the Gothic, Fey and Draconic batches are some of the best yet, they've opened up new design space here.
The basic game rules are highly abstract. No need to clutter them up.
If people want those, WotC will make them eventually.
There are always more stories to tell.
Including great advice like taking the Weapon Master feat.
Not necessarily obvious to everyone.
Builds are literally not new content.
Yeah well That's just like your opinion, man.
Yeah. In 6e. Because that not how WOTC currently have been acting. Just because a whole lot of people want it doesn't me we get it. Or the Beastmaster would have been redone or we'd get psionic classes.
Honestly, I doubt many people want most of those things. Particularly, WotC has made it pretty clear that Tasha's approach to Psionics is what the majority of players want.
As it should be.
