Vaalingrade
Legend
We should be putting forth good, exciting options to attract new players.
And we should be putting the champion fighter into the compost heap.
And we should be putting the champion fighter into the compost heap.
i'd prefer it's features all just got intergrated into the base class instead.And we should be putting the champion fighter into the compost heap.
Oh for sure, the mechanical failures are the no. 1 killer. And yeah, Rangers can be cool of course, I don't mean to say they're an inevitable strike-out whenever they appear in a game, even the more underwhelming versions/revisions. Just, yeah. I feel like it can take a more conceited effort than you'd reasonably expect for other classes.
I think Rangers getting a defined corner of the Primal magic sphere, something that is just theirs, not Druid's or Barbarian's, would/will create a better starting point for actionable changes/additions. Not before/instead of any tries at the mechanical stuff necessarily, but. If there's a clearer perception of their deal on the magic side, you can start doing stuff more confidently maybe. Writing new/sprucing up old spells, new lore/flavour write-ups, it could help inform future attempts at their class abilities, etc. Like Bard got in playtest 6, where they associated Bards with "harnessing the words of creation" and so on. I'd like something like that for Ranger. If that makes sense.
no need to make all subclasses of all classes just the most simple for starting characters.
And that can be in soft-cover shipped together with PHB or some starter adventure for levels 1-4.
I.E:
Artificer, armorer
Barbarian, bear totem
Bard, lore
Cleric, life
Druid, moon
Fighter, champion
Monk, open hand
Paladin, devotion
Ranger, hunter
Rogue, thief
Sorcerer, draconic
Warlock, fiend
Wizard, evoker
That is why Cure wound spell needs to go away and combat healing only should be Healing word.And another thing: if we're going to try to attract players to trying classes, 'healbot sadness forever' cleric is not the way to go. We should especially not encourage the idea that combat healing is a worthwhile use of the action economy.
this would be 2-3 pages per character. for 10 characters. That is not a huge investment.So if someone wanted something other than the most simple option made for them... then they still need to consider all 68 options. And your solution involves printing an entire second book to be bound with the PHB or in a starter set?
I think that alone shows how this is not a practicable idea for WoTC
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I think marking COULD be that, similar to the paladin aura as something uniquely created for that class, but it would need to break out of the current design.