Traverse Fantasy

I don’t know who the target audience is for this. As much as I do preach the virtues of the play culture surrounding D&D Fifth Edition , it’s with no thanks to the actual ruleset itself; and most others in this sphere don’t seem to care for either. But I had taken a Tumblr poll with my partner to assign D&D races and classes to each member of the Hermitcraft SMP on YouTube, and it got me thinking about how the latter are… messy. I think it was Chris Perkins who had expressed regret that Fifth Edition had twelve instead of just four classes, because the increased granularity meant that the classes were really finely distinguished on the basis of flavor and specialization. These distinctions could have been relegated to the realm of subclasses, but not only did Fifth Edition not do that: it further split each class into three subclasses anyway. That’s thirty-six picks altogether, leading to awkward twins like “paladin but more magicky” and “cleric but more fighty”. Not that h...