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My biggest concern about the Bard in the UA, is when they tried to streamline weapon proficiencies in all classes, harming the Rogue and the Bard. Currently Bard's don't get proficiency in Rapier, Hand Crossbow, Shortwords or Longswords, as they only get Simple Weapon Proficiency and nothing...

Obviously still Arcane, though "power source" is hardly a thing that has much impact mechanically in 5e.

I think it's going back to the Bard spell list being around, there just might be more choices for extra spells, or maybe Magical Secrets is something Bards get earlier. They're probably keeping the change Font of Inspiration, where you can exchange a spell slot for Bardic Inspiration Die. I...

For broad skills like Athletics you could allow for a number of sub-skills equal to one's proficiency bonus.

Bring back the Elan, a mostly human-like looking race (or lineage in the way the Reborn are) that with a psionic physiology who happen to be Aberrations.

The niche might not be size but Fey nature, even if there's already 2 fey species with Elf and Gnome.

I think Goblins should be in the new PHB, so they don't have to rewrite the Goblin PC entry every time they release a new campaign setting.

D&D also has to contend with video games now as some place where new players have their fantasy expectations from, and in many video games even the warrior types have "spells" (like a ground slam shockwave attack).

I liked the ideas that Bruce Cordell had, the only person at WotC who was really into psionics. Based on what 3.5e psionics got, the answer is basically "All of the above". The Far Realms, Victorian influenced New Agey stuff with crystals and ectoplasm, along with Buddhist (Tibetan Tulpas aka...

Or reskinning for players who want to play a Technomancer where "I load an unstable fire element bullet into my experimental multi-pistol" is simply casting Fireball as a spell, even though the Artificer covers Technomancy too.

I think the Psionic subclasses will prepare the way for a Psion class eventually. There's a given "don't make completely new mechanics" for psionic powers now in place, because there's psionic subclasses of casters like Warlocks and Sorcerers that just use spells. Then it opens the way for a...

I think it's better that the Psionic Sorcerer subclass is aberrant themed (3e had Illithid bloodline feats, so there's precedence), not only because it was more interesting than them being a generic psion replacement, but because I don't think the entire weight of psionics should be carried by a...

When they proposed to change it to the psionic soul back in some UA before it appeared in Tasha's, I rejected it because I felt it was really boring compared to Aberrant Mind. In fact most people admitted that they felt psionic soul was really boring compared to Aberrant Mind, so they went back...

Well, a Soulknife could be a better Assassin than an Assassin, based on the fact they don't need to carry around any weapons.

Tieflings in the UA were vaguely tied to Devils (Infernal), Demons (Abyssal) or Yugoloths (Chthonic). And I think they even suggested that some Chthonic Tieflings might be descendants of Succubi or Night Hags. No direct mention of Rakshasa or Demodands/Gehreleths, but they do suggest that...

There's a bunch of classes from the 2014 PHB that are leftover too, like the Tempest Cleric and the Necromancer Wizard.

It probably is, as we haven't had an instance where a PHB 2014 subclass has been replaced by one from Tasha's or Xanathar's. But if there was one that could be, then it might be the Assassin I guess.

-They mention Melf been depicted, casting Melf's Acid Arrow, but no mention of there being a depiction Evard casting Evard's Black Tentacles which would be something I'd be interested in seeing. -Psi Warrior and Soulknife (did it replace the Swashbuckler from the UA?) being in the PHB, along...

That isn't Gamma World?

If you're 80+ years old but really powerful in magic, including some mastery over your own body, wouldn't you want to look like a 20 year old?