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The 5E versions of Dragonlance, Planescape, Ravenloft & Spelljammer have each pissed off a contingent of players because they weren't exactly like the material found in each of their original books. But in order to know that the 5E versions were not the same as the older versions, each of those...

What can I say? It's the dead zone right before a new book is getting released and people having nothing else to talk about. :D

I happen to think it becomes a very freeing space as a DM when I can just run the stuff on my side of the screen and not care for a moment what the players do on their side. If someone decides to use a 5E14 class versus a 5E24 class and I wasn't even informed about it beforehand and I don't...

I really like the Warlock chassis and think a couple other classes using it would work well. I don't think I'd want the entire game moved over to it though, as I appreciate the varied types of available power suites-- the 9 level full caster suite, the 1/2 caster suite, the martial ability...

I agree with the thread premise wholeheartedly. What matters are the ideas the players come up with to solve problems presented to them by the DM. What numbers we use to determine the success of those ideas is secondary.

This is probably where a divide occurs between people, because in my opinion there's absolutely no reason why 'collective storytelling' can't be a game. Fiasco is a game and that's completely about 'collective storytelling'. And theatrical improvisation is entirely about games... that's why...

Is it? Are we sure about that? Or is it perhaps that because you fall into that camp, you wish/hope/want it to be massive so that there's the slimmest chance it could get changed? And if it doesn't get changed... maybe the movement isn't as massive as you thought it was. Just like the...

What's this '3E' stuff? The 1E Paladin and Ranger horned in on the 1E Fighter! :P

Heh... did "we" do it, or did the individual designers of 3E, 4E, and 5E all do it themselves because even they realized how irritating it was? ;)

I dunno... maybe there just aren't enough people who want those sacred cows slain? Maybe the number of people hung up on the Wizard "getting everything" isn't big enough to warrant a change? Don't ask me. I have no idea. I just know I couldn't care less if a Psion or isn't in the game. I'm...

I've yet to see a "killing monsters" character build in any version of D&D that has not been able to do so to the point of "frustration" while others were also doing it. Are there builds that don't do it "as well" as others? Sure. The 3E Bard was not designed to be one of the premiere foe...

What do you mean "gave"? The Wizard / Magic User has had all the psionic effects as spells in their repertoire way before psionics even existed in the game as thing. If anything... the psionics system horned in on Wizards and stole their functionality, not the other way around. ;)

By the way... now that we've reached page 37 it seems about time for us to move over and talk about why WotC hasn't made a Psion yet.

To be fair, Capn... I intended my 'six days' thing to be about threads where posters get together to create a usable Warlord class, not threads about Warlord existence in general. :) Threads about people just complaining that WotC doesn't give them what they want can last much, much longer...

For me, the game works when it enhances and is an integral part of the story and narrative. If it's not... if the stats and dice rolling do not add and enhance the feel of the world, then they serve no purpose. D&D's central narrative gameplay is "kill monsters". That's what 95% of all the...