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  1. MoonSong

    D&D 5E What I Don't Like About Subclasses, and Potential Solutions.

    Well, I do rather like -and prefer- subclass choice at first level. First, because subclass doesn't add that much new powers/options to be "overwhelming", and second because subclasses aren't only defining to character, they also enable characters to be played. For example, there are maybe...
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    WotC 2024 D&D Core Rules Will Be Added To SRD In 2025

    It's not just official SRDs that matter. There's lots of non-WotC content on OGC. There's the whole of Pathfinder 1, a good deal of Pathfinder 2, lots of existing OSR stuff, the Mongoose version of Ronequest, at least one edition of Tormenta. A lot of it isn't even D&D centric and tons of it...
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    WotC 2024 D&D Core Rules Will Be Added To SRD In 2025

    The point is we should want to have both. Creative Commons is nice, but the viral nature of the OGL and the ability to remix with previous Open Game Content is nice. Currently the only way to access existing Open Game Content is through the OGL. Both are open licenses, but aren't compatible with...
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    D&D 5E D&D Beyond: No More À La Carte Purchases But US Customers Can Buy Physical Books

    Question, are we sure that granular buying of elements requires more resources? I mean I'm not a professional, but I have done some programming and work with databases and I think individual elements still have to be indexed and tagged to make them work with the builders. Giving each an...
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    D&D 5E D&D Beyond: No More À La Carte Purchases But US Customers Can Buy Physical Books

    Not anymore. Last year they started to place ads on all videos, not just the monetized ones.
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    D&D (2024) WotC Fireside Chat: Revised 2024 Player’s Handbook

    Divibe Soul is dead. It makes no sense when picked at higher levels. If you are the party healer, you need to be it from the get go. Otherwise, by the time you turn into a healer the party already has a healer. Also, getting access to the extra spell list after you have chosen your cantrips? And...
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    D&D 5E Brainstorm Sorcerer upgrades. (+)

    On the contrary, having cure wounds on the core sorcerer list would soften the blow of subclass being moved to higher levels, basically by allowing sorcerers to be healers and feel different from wizards from first level up.
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    D&D 5E Brainstorm Sorcerer upgrades. (+)

    Well, for metamagic I have this idea that was inspired by the old reverse spells and the way enhance ability works (plus how spell scaling works). Basically metamagic is built-in in the spells, as variants withing the spell, some variants require higher slot levels, some might even reduce the...
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    D&D (2024) The sorcerer shouldn't exist

    You need to let go of the idea of wizard as a sorcerer subclass. I'm among posters who have proposed it, but it isn't entirely a genuine desire. Rather it started as a reaction to posters who want to get rid of sorcerer by shoving it under wizard. The argument "but wizards have a gift for magic...
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    D&D General Help me avoid “Chosen Ones” trope

    The whole point is dangerously similar to one of the elements I handle in my stories. Many people and creatures have inherited a shard of the original living being. That shard is inherited from parents to children, and when activated, it provides powers to the creature that possess it. The shard...
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    D&D (2024) The sorcerer shouldn't exist

    In-universe? It is not a choice nor something than can be truly controlled. There are bloodlines, but even that won't be a guarantee.
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    D&D 5E What is the Sorcerer?

    I would make it from the other side, sorcerer as the default caster, everyting else gated behind heavy prerreqs and adventures don't assume you have anything but sorcerers.
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    D&D (2024) How excited are you for the new 2024 edition d&d?

    My books are physical, it is not that I think they are going away (but WotC could always send Pinkertons to get them n_n). What I feel is that they will be devalued. 5e has a lot of value as a compromise edition, everybody's second option. Without being the up to date edition, chances to play it...
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    D&D (2024) How excited are you for the new 2024 edition d&d?

    Zero? I'm more like at negative...
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    D&D 5E Brainstorm Sorcerer upgrades. (+)

    That's just Vancian but worse.
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    D&D 5E Brainstorm Sorcerer upgrades. (+)

    I was thinking of Scion as a name for the latter.
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    D&D (2024) The sorcerer shouldn't exist

    Even if we take you at your word, the sorcerer isn't a wizard subclass mechanically. If anything it is the other way around. It is trivially easy to write a custom sorcerer subclass that covers 80% of a wizard without even getting overpowered. It is very hard to make a custom wizard subclass...
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    D&D (2024) The sorcerer shouldn't exist

    But you are making a categorical mistake. Sorcerer isn't Wizard but hot. Wizard is Sorcerer but lame bookish.
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    D&D (2024) The sorcerer shouldn't exist

    Yeah, we've danced this dance before, neither was satisfied. Maybe if we could focus on what we want instead of what we don't want? https://www.enworld.org/threads/brainstorm-sorcerer-upgrades.703731/
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