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AFAIK the 5e designers really meant it when they said "multiclassing is optional" because they pretty much wiped their hands of it as far as balancing went. I think it was on Dragon Talks and maybe other places, but they really didn't try to balance multiclassing. I think that we see that it's...

Starting small and growing organically from there. I've run a good number of long-term campaigns, and some of the ones based on long adventures were great (my first Night Below and RHoD campaigns went amazingly)- but I think that not knowing what's going to happen down the road is a lot more fun...

There's a cheat sheet floating around but it's more like .. 4 pages. Would love to see what you come up with!

Yeah the pre-2010 minis by WotC were great. Definitely some misses but I have a ton of them and they're way more durable than the Wizkids ones.

Sorry to hear that :( Quite crappy to be disappointed like that. Wizkids minis are i think like, 3 little and 1 big miniatures to a $20 blind box? 13 licensed minis in a box would be quite a get for $20 😅 There ARE "get a load of crappy random minis" online, you can look them up on amazon...

That's just the origin feature of a character- the majority of classes, especially fighter and berserker, handily outperform their 5e counterparts. Where is the line? Having A5e characters in the game DOES require the DM having a new gauge of power. You can't challenge a party of A5E...

So, assuming "4 feats of power," would it not be a 5e game? I think that's the original intent of this exercise- defining a game as 5e or not. Shadowdark is not. But A5e characters' baseline is higher than 5e's. Is it not a 5e game?

I can see @W'rkncacnter 's point- first-party content is a good reference, it's available to everyone, and it sets the baseline. Ofc A5e's baseline can be all over the place, but if you say "dragonborn heritage with tyrannized culture" everyone can look that up and since it's in the core books...

A5e definitely gives more power via its heritage culture background and destiny than standard 5e. Not with stats, but features. Players can get a resistance from their heritage and a second resistance from their culture along with other features. Thankfully AFAIK no backgrounds grant...

It's a good question. I think the proficiency bonus is a core identifier of a 5e game.

Infernal exploration challenges and carousing mechanics? F yeah.

You're definitely correct about the compatibility thing, and Shadowdark is a good example of a game that isn't 5e but was inspired by it. I think one big thing that's a 5e identifier is Proficiency Bonus. Other editions had BAB and Skill ranks or thaco etc. 5e has that universal scaling...

Of course, yes in both cases.

There were tons of d20 games that weren't D&D. d20 Modern had nothing to do with D&D, but it used the d20 (aka 3e) ruleset. I think that's the difference between D&D and 5e. You can have games that are using the 5e mechanics but don't require any use of the D&D5e rulebooks, like Esper Genesis...

I don't think you grasped my point 😅 Roll for Combat are YT content creators. You listed their successful crowdfunded projects. That's exactly what I said- YouTubers with dedicated audiences that will buy their stuff without batting an eye, because they're fans of the creators. None of the 13A...

Neither 13A nor SotWW nor PF2 have sizeable dedicated YT audiences- MCDM's record-setter was because of Matt Colville's YT following. I don't know DC20's creator well but he's a popular YT creator. That's where all this stuff starts- monetizing your YouTube audience; and I don't know that an...

I'm stoked for Moria too- did you download the "beta" release?

To be clear, you think most new D&D players have played other TTRPGs before they've played D&D?

They're numbers from 2017 or so, but I think 98% of the TTRPG market share is D&D- Paizo has 1%, and everything else shares that last 1%.

Monetizing your YouTube Audience is a thing. I drove to PAX East one year exclusively because Matt Colville was doing a talk there on it (that was literally the title of the talk), and at the time I was considering doing content creation etc. and was a fan. I think this was after S&F's...