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Elves have the beauty of elves specifically and their societies in general pushed heavily in WOTC literature on elves as well as they are so beautiful they are like divinely beautiful so they don't even fit in, they are like little angel-creatures or Godlings. They are "of the world but not in ...

No negative effects for being low HP or even getting positive benefits for a certain HP breakpoint, like 4E having abilities that only work when something is "bloodied." Hit in the face with an axe five times? Congratulations, have some more power!

I think some of the weird stuff done to classes for the sake of weird stuff that hurt the purported 3.5 backwards compatibility like the Bard and Barbarian rounds stuff might be a pain. Other classes can just be immediately taken into 3.5 without issue I think, like Cleric, Wizard, Sorcerer, Rogue, ...

You also have to take in mind the culture is so different. In 2003 fantasy stuff was dorky and geeky and who even liked that crap, right? Now compare that from 2014-2016. You'd expect a system as good as 3.5 after an underwhelming 4E to just fly off the shelves like hot cakes. Breaking even with 200...

The clerics of one of the setting's goddesses are whip wielding domintrices.

Erastil isnt the sexist fan service you are looking for.

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5E on the pen and paper side has a slashed to the bone non-staff with 6 people who have to be writers, editors, type-setters, printers, etc. whatever needs to be done to make 5E material is down to under 10 people. We know that Paizo has several dozen people working for it. The last number I heard h...

speaking of Magus, is that class at all worth a shit? I know tier list stuff is verboten but a d8, two good saves, 3/4 caster casting off intelligence, they ain't too bad. It's not like full caster or a sneaky full caster like the original Summoner strong, but she can get the job done. I think they...

With Combat Expertise still being a dumb gatekeeper feat (That, Power Attack and Deadly Aim should just be attack options) with a 13 Intelligence and the gimping of bonuses and splitting the feats and the awful CMD being so much higher than CMB, is the combat maneuver guy even just generally viable ...

So what is the breakpoint for an item? If a +1 or +2 weapon costs 5000 GP, does a +3 weapon equal ten times the money? It seems like the rules are completely half assed for this, like they don't even want you doing it. And didn't they do something funky with the craft times where normally a weapon w...

The standard boss battle is already funky, mainly due to one shot kill effects and status condition and movement lockdowns. How does a higher level foe fight groups of enemies? Would a Party of 5 really be able to do 12 more standard actions than a high level foe? Wouldn't this mean that parties wou...

I think you absolutely, positively have to give martials meaningful ways to use magic and interact without things like AC/HP. Let's say casting a spell or interacting with the magic system is 3 to 4 times more effective than swinging a sword. That is probably the minimum baseline. You could very eas...

If they do to the Core 8 or whatever (Wizard, Sorcerer, Cleric, Druid, Bard, Barbarian, Ranger, Paladin) what they did with this Occult stuff, yeesh. Is this them trying out Pathfinder 2.0 concepts and being scared to have tolerable power and push new horizons in the game so they Nerfed it all into ...

They are horrified of letting classes have open spell access. Every Marine A Rifleman...Every new PF class a Monk or Bard or OP fullcaster master race. Like look at the Mesmerist. Just look at that pile of book keeping and math juggling and resource management and a bazillion fiddly bits and all for...

The new occult book is just, uggh. D8, no full BAB, 4 to 6 skill points a level, gimped quarter and 2/3 casting, fucking hell. It has a bunch of b.s. at every level and a trillion choices to make. Just a big dumpster dive. Of course, they can't even retain fidelity to that sort of E6 but this one go...

5e isn't a set of rules. It's a set of design goals for someone to use when writing an edition of Dungeons & Dragons. I don't disagree with all of the design goals presented, but I'm legitimately offended that they released it when it was still this underdesigned. And the fact that they explici...

The thing that gets me is Magical Items. They couldn't commit themselves to a base level of magical item possession for foes, purchase options and creation guidelines. They were horrified of screwing the pooch on the RNG/Bounded Accuracy concept they married themselves to so they just decided to do ...

Well, the Force did seem to have biological basis. Some intelligent life forms are utterly incapable of Force Use themselves, cannot be detected by the Force and are immune or resistant to the aspects of the Force. Yuuzhan Vong, for instance, in a multi-Galaxy system where planets are said to have h...

why are they still doing Race/Class? Show the classes first!

Wow, still going to the Drizzt well, huh? the idea of a Good PC from an Alignment Evil Race/Species had been considered a hackneyed eye-roller half way through Third Edition, if not sooner.

5E: Not 5 Fresh Ideas In The Whole System

How about ignoring late stage gameplay because the first stage of game play isn't a catastrophe? that's a delusion d20 has labored under since inception, basically, with the biggest culprit being 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons/Pathfinder. Sure, the game degrades in a "everybody means something in thi...

what did they expect to happen? You know when you go dumpster diving (for AGES) in pathfinder option sets. You know all those heaps of dross abilities that are so shitty you probably would be better off just not taking anything? All those ones you take one look at then toss into the ever growing pi...

They want everybody to be playing a borderline acceptable character, if even that, kind of like a Vanilla Ice Cream philosophy. But they then they give every class hundreds of easily swappable options and get upset when a funky known build happens or it seems like the community "figures out&quo...

How are you supposed to assassinate somebody in the system at comparable level? Let's say, a 5th level rogue sneaks up and stabs another 5th level Rogue. Vintage one shot backstab death potential, right? Well, a rogue who put its favored class bonus into HP starts at 5d8+5. A guy getting walloped ov...

Oh, you mean the Lost Characters of Fun-Over? The whole module is a difficult little meat grinder with some "encounters" you straight up lose, with the CR 8 Fun-Over Dragon getting a cheap shot in on single digit level characters averaging the 40s. The entire module seems predicated on you...

The Evoker alpha threads are lulzy, I mean, wow. "Look, dealing that piddly amount of damage just simply does not matter. It has to scale much harder to even barely matter, and even then direct damage is one of the crappiest things to do as a Wizard or Sorcerer. Nobody will ever care about 1d6 ...