What Hill Will You Die On?

[doctorbadwolf]

1. TTRPGs are absolutely tools for telling stories.

2. The value of a person is not determined by what they can produce, and it is morally unacceptable to treat people as if it is.

3. Cleric is a bad class and should be replaced with a real Priest class, and let the Paladin be the holy warrior.

4. The D&D 5e Bard is the worst version of the Bard that D&D has had. JoAT should be a ranger feature, Bards should be about the spoken/sung word and knowledge, not to being a Rogue with magic.

My wife cited only one:

Wizards don’t need niche protection at the cost of other classes not having nice things.

 

[Reynard]

The original Aaron Allston's Strike Force is the single best GMing advice book for campaigns ever made and will probably never be surpassed.

 

[Reynard]

2. The value of a person is not determined by what they can produce, and it is morally unacceptable to treat people as if it is.

Not that I disagree in any way, but I am hoping to keep this thread focused on RPG stuff -- for safety.

 

[Scribe]

Not that I disagree in any way, but I am hoping to keep this thread focused on RPG stuff -- for safety.

Still think this thread is a dangerous one.

Species based ASI is more interesting and provides more depth than floating.

Alignment hasn't been a straight jacket for decades.

5e is worse for minimizing both.

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

Aliens must have different psychologies from humans. (Easy example, you can't use sex to advertise to Hivers, who reproduce essentially by pollen, and definitely not to Lithkind, who die when they mate.)

 

[billd91]

Traveller has some of the best non-human species with the most interestingly thought-out differences.

 

[TwoSix]

1) Eberron is the perfect D&D setting.

2) Having class as a concept that exists in the setting ("I'm a rogue!") will never not seem overly gamist and weird.

3) D&D style games would be better if the character's progression wasn't fixed by your class choice. Class should be a starting template, not the determiner of the rest of the character's growth.

 

[Reynard]

Traveller has some of the best non-human species with the most interestingly thought-out differences.

Thanks forthe reminder -- I need to grab that Traveller bundle before it ends.

 

[Reynard]

1) Eberron is the perfect D&D setting.

QFT

The fact that it was built specifically to reflect the things that D&D does, it has a huge leg up on other setting. In addition, it was also innovative at the time, really embracing magic as a form of technology and moving the game out of the medieval romance and sword and sorcery genres.

 

[GuyBoy]

1 Modrons are the most boring, worse and irritating monsters ever designed for the game.
2 Greyhawk is so much better than Forgotten Realms