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I'm basing this off the gw2 mmo, where there were lots of choices, specializations, support abilities, and each weapon brought a suite of 5 different abilities per weapon. well, that's not how I've seen any game do things, not even dnd, so gonna disagree with ya.

Embrace the sin!

I mean... it depends on the design goals. There's a lot that depends on the overall system and stories the game is intending on telling. Personally, I'm happy with a system of 9 - Fighter, Paladin/Cleric merge, Barbarian/Warlock (!!) merge, Rogue, Artificer, Ranger/Druid merge, Bard/Psychic...

Meh. At best, this is a complaint about using gluten free flour instead of whole wheat flour. We still have the cake.

"Class fantasy" is the most commonly used phrase for thematic identity, I found. Mechanical identity seems to be "fighting style" with a bit of exploration and social skill use mixed in. The problem with fighting style is that's a mechanic too, so it doesn't quite work.

This comment certainly hasn't aged well.

No, I'm saying that if the half-elf was brought forwards into 5.5e for some reason, it's mechanics would need to be reimagined and updated because the 2014 ones aren't good enough to carry it anymore. The ASIs were doing a lot of lifting.

As a side note.... Whatever happened to people saying "flavor is free?" Used to be everywhere. I don't see it anymore.

Note that the first half is entirely cultural - diplomats and wanderers especially. The two worlds bit isn't literal, since the half-elf is not necessarily from the Feywild. But if instead we're talking just "the child of two peoples," that again is cultural - because its assuming those two...

Personally, I honestly don't care about specific mechanics, I prefer to discus tropes, vibes, and the like. Because, if we're going to talk about the mechanics... Then we have to address the elephant in the room. Mainly, the greatest mechanical appeal of the half-elf was the fact that they...

No, I just don't think that you can use culture to justify complaints that half-elf no longer exists as a distinct mechanical block. You need arguments rooted in phenotypes. "There is a lack of a less magical Elf adjacent type; there should be someone that stradles the line between magic and...

5.5e species aren't culture, they're primarily biology. You are trying to equate Khoravar culture with being a distinct genotype. So long as you do so, your argument is just stuck in an old edition. I mean... look at this: NEW ELF SUBTYPE Muggle (name pending) - gain a skill instead of...

Musings on the Fighter identity... Even Mearls, at one point, noted that Fighter wasn't really built around a story like the other classes were. Oh, sure, the class writeup up talks about the mercenary, the town guard, the ex-soldier, the farmer boy practicing with his family blade and dreams...

Thoughts On Ranger- Ranger has a really clear class fantasy across multiple game. Monster hunter, tamer and wilderness expert. however... the dnd mechanics have always struggled to encapsulate it. In part because the wilderness exploration rules are kinda bad as a whole. So many end up...

A few bits to keep in mind. Species no longer includes culture bits. Only biology. so an entire culture of half-elves in one setting means nothing. If you want to talk about a reason to keep a distinct set of mechanics, you need to talk about fantasy-biology. I mean, there's a bit of...

Sorcerer class flat out gives examples of how people gain sorcery without it being form birth. Drink dragon blood, bathe in magic ponds, be hit by magic lightning, survive a slaad or illithid egg inside you.

Okay, I'm not going to touch the class identity war thing, but.... 👏SORCERER 👏IS👏 NOT👏 BLOODLINES👏!!!!!! Dragon sorcerer was bloodlines, but wild magic, storm sorcery, clockwork, aberrant mind, divine soul, moon magic, and shadow magic were NEVER bloodlines. Pathfinder was the one that went...

I'm going to be a troll and say.... :devilish:Psion, Warlord and Spellblade. :devilish: Jokes aside, each one on that list is an iconic fantasy archetype. The only question is wizard / sorcerer, which are two sides of the same concept, so you need at least one of them.

Oooh! Tough choice. I like both!

I mean, there's nothing wrong with using a spiritual successor in the place of an older name and mechanics. They're technically different, but they fill pretty much the same niche and are otherwise really close. It makes sense to me. Every new edition brings changes, and we all adapt. I...