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I'll say my hot take again
If Infusions were core, Ranger would be better as an infusion class than a half caster. Manh iconic ranger spells are reflavored magic equipment.
Healing herbs
Healing potions
Antidotes
Snares
Spikes
Flaming arrows
Serrated arrows
Modified quivers
Ghillie Suits...
It would happen in Theros
Strixhaven, No. And Yes. Depends. Because it's a magic based setting for caster.
Well this question will answer my concerns.
Fans with Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos, how does the book handle and explain playing a class without magic?
I said it being old and not updated meaned it its too out of date to teach the modern interpretation of the game.
Unless the Modernize Greyhawk. Which is a Dice roll of WOTC does. They didn't put effort in the 2014 DMG. They admitted it was rushed.
I am entirely justified to not give them the...
Oh the dream.
The ranger who nonmagical crafts gear then uses magic to summon their poisoned trick arrows, camo suits, traps, and tamed beasts from home.
That's the bastion system I wantt WOTC.
Player Agency and DM agency conflict
A human can point to the GH map and say "I'm from here. I known the history of this nation and have contacts here*
A Dragonborn doing the same invokes a Player Agency dilemma. They are creating a nation and people.
For some groups that's a easy fix. Not...
Nah
What I am saying is that a player will make a Dragonborn in Greyhawk and have characters that are not tied and have bonds to the setting. And there are drawbacks to that.
What a starting needs is what the players want.
What a setting in the Dungeon Masters Guide should have is a Guide for Dungeon Masters in settings.
Which is both creating and running a setting. Not just the latter.
Rangers in D&D have magic because D&D doesn't have a skill system with defined effects.
Rangers can't put on ghillie suits, snare trap the orc vanguard, run before the main warband notices, then heal up after battle without SPELLS.
Again I am not saying WOTC can't do anything right.
I am saying that for WOTC and the past D&D IP holder never held it as a priority. And the 2014. DMG is proof of it.
The designers at WOTC could probably do an excellent job at it. But a large swath of the community, which includes many...
Not connecting to the lore. Connection to the setting.
Playing a class or race and it doesn't mean anything.
You make a Dragonborn monk and
You never meet any Dragonborn
You never meet any monks
You never fight other Dragonborn or Monks
You never find any Dragonborn Magic Items
You never...