#anyway thats my cursory two cents

[lem0nademouth]

OKAY my complaints re: the new dnd phb/dms guide

(almost) everything is worse.

prepared casting across the board? AMAZING. PERFECT. but of course we can’t have nice things, so it has to be unnecessarily complicated. 5/10.

incorporating a bunch of stuff from tasha’s as core rules? AMAZING. LOVE IT. oh wait - replacing old core rules with tasha’s rules? like, fundamentally changing several classes? well fuck. 3/10.

no more half elves or half orcs? fuck you dude. 0/10.

“race” is now “species”. 10/10 no notes it should have always been this way.

completely and utterly fumbling the bag on rangers? -1000000/10. why is it so impossible for wotc to get rangers right. what do y’all have against rangers. is it the fact that DMs have to put in a modicum of work to fully utilize rangers? is it that the lead writers at wotc don’t enjoy or prioritize exploration and survival elements of dnd? is it a weird complex about ttrpg players not being “outdoor kids”? listen. i was a camp counselor for many years. my first dnd character was a ranger, because rangers are the camp counselors of dnd. rangers keep everyone alive long enough to actually go on the adventure. my ranger tav in bg3 is the most powerful member of the party without question. i don’t get the fundamental misunderstanding of what a ranger is and im sure it traces back to some deep seeded misogyny or elitism or something, as these things often do - but it has got to fucking stop. i know this is the most unimportant thing to concern myself with at the moment, but honestly the unimportance of it all makes me that much angrier. we’re not doing rocket science over here. we’re playing the lord of the rings dice game. so why is it so difficult for a TEAM of people to create a character that people want to play? i could write an essay on the way recent editions of dnd have ruined the ranger and atp i might have to.

in short: i won’t be playing the new edition, but i’ll probably incorporate some of it into my 5e stuff. 5e is still my baby and theres nothing about the new rules that feel like a drastic enough improvement to switch over completely. try harder next time wotc!