Recent content by UngainlyTitan

The modern interpretation of the game is the rules in the PHB, the Greyhawk chapter in the DMG is to teach a new DM to create a world using Greyhawk as an example. While it is possible that WoTC may fail in this, I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt until I see the actual result. I...

Well, reasonable minds can differ, but I do not believe it is an issue for designers or publishers to resolve. I mean DMs curate their games all the time. There are DMs that do not allow splat books, or Silvery Barbs or multiclassing. Does this mean that Wizards should not include multiclassing...

Then it is the DMs job to make that clear from the get go. I do not believe it is the function of the rules or the publisher/designer to try and enforce playstyles. Other than, perhaps to note that such playstyles exist. As you say it is not important to me but if I was playing at your table, I...

Why is this a problem of the rules, if they are willing (and the DM and the rest of the table goes along with it) to make a character with no ties to the setting, what is different from a dragonborn or a human? Tying the dragonborn to the setting is as simple as saying that the character is...

Thing is, you really do not need classes there are game without them but if you do then classes cover basic archetypes. At a minimum one needs 3: the fighter, the magic user, the skilled one. One could base the whole game around this with all other archetypes as subclasses. On the other hand...

I was responding to another post. I do not really disagree with you post in any significant way and taking my post outside its context as a response and positioning it as advocacy is, in my opinion doing me a disservice.

Then make it so, you do not need anyone else's blessing.

Why should they? What will this add? This is a game where people should be doing this themselves, either with their own world building or their take on an existing template. Consider what a WoTC new setting would be? It mostly likely be a lightly coloured take on some basic theme, like points...

I have often wondered whether it was worse to hear "Roxanne" or "Every Breath You Take" at a wedding. I have heard both and wondered if the couple had ever actually listened to the lyrics.

I think we mostly agree but could quibble about the details. I just want to add, that I am not particularly a fan of plussed weapons either.

I am not sure what you are getting at here with respect to my post that you are responding to. All classes benefit a lot from a + 1 in their prime stat and this competes with any feat. So, players will gravitate to this choice as it is an easy one to make. Polearm mastery or heavy armour mastery...

75 is not too many but it is probably enough for the PHB. The bigger problem is the way feats are done in 5e and I have my doubts that this will be solved in the new PHB. In my opinion, apart from a very small number of exceptions in the current game, it is not clear that any feat is worth more...

Contact made: plan derailed, everything proceeding as normal. Lost plothooks ban be offered again with different bait.

voted 576, if one is going to present Greyhawk as an example of how to create a world then the most minimalist version is best that was in all fairness published for a similar reason.

That sound like a cool idea, make it so.