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That's totally fair. Having yet to play 2024 in-person, and playing it only on Foundry and Talespire so far, surely biases my view on some things.

Khoravar rogue can get true strike as a species trait, allowing them to select a different background feat like Lucky. Nice! Yes I know there was already a High Elf option for this, but a different choice is good. And, well, yeah it's a half-elf. About time.

Getting it all automated in Foundry has helped a lot. Now they're cool. Like spells.

Yes it's a non-magical spellcaster class. Spellcaster meaning a class operating essentially off a slot system which increases with levels, and the slots are used to use a power which controls something, or damages something, or heals something, etc... This just looks like a melee based non-magic...

Yeah I got that. It's basically a caster disguised as a melee character.

It's obviously not a big deal to me. It's on my want list, but it's not on my must-have list or else I wouldn't have been playing without one all these years and would have just made one up.

He said the numbers hold up regardless of what weapon they use, but they default to longbow. Bow hits more often but does less damage per hit. Greatsword hits less often but does more damage per hit. They average about the same. Strategy was spread out so they don't all get hit with an AOE if...

No they are primary bow users using GWM, with a greatsword if for some reason they find themselves in melee combat. GWM now adds its damage to longbows as well, since it's any heavy weapon now and longbows are a heavy weapon.

I firmly think this is more powerful than a 5.5e martial character.

Just read that an honestly that's an awful lot of abilities. Seems meaningfully more powerful than 5.5e. But I could be wrong since I only just now read through it.

I want a Warlord too, and have for a long time now. But I don't think it was a choice between these and a Warlord. Artificer was maybe a choice between it and Warlord but Warlord was never going to be a core class in this game given the throw-back choice they made when initially designing 5e...

Rituals and access to more spells and better spells make wizards very distinct from sorcerers. Font of Magic and Metamagic make sorcerers very distinct from wizards.

The best information I've seen has been Mike Mearls' speculation. He seemed initially to think it was not meeting expectations but then seemed to change his mind, at least to some respect, as he observed some DnDBeyond numbers, which were much higher. But that's all pretty vague.

yes that's the "even if it's not going to burn you" It still looks like a flame.

This is an Ar Cane

It's a flame now. You probably want it in a lantern, even if it's not going to burn you. Magic and tech are essentially the same in this game. There are no rules for throwing a rock at a lantern and splash damage from it in 5.5e.

Would you be OK with it if the light source in the lantern were from a continual flame spell?

Weirdly, though this has been a topic that goes back to 1e AD&D, both you and the YouTuber Pack Tactics mention this issue this week. The truth is, people in our world hung lanterns on belts sometimes. It just makes sense to keep your hands free. This is a Flemish miner from 1906 using a...

Yes he notes it's atypical. The fighters simply reliably dishing out a lot of single-target damage quickly in the first two rounds, and being able to make pretty much any save for those rounds, is really what's happening here. And that would apply just as well to some monster-oriented combat...