WotC owe Geek and Sundry's Critical Role for catapulting D&D into this new renaissance it is seeing.
They give them plenty of hat tips, but how about taking Matt Mercer's Gunslinger Fighter Archetype, and giving it the UA treatment and over time, make it an official D&D subclass.
As I understand it since the Gunslinger is available on the DMsGuild the only way for WotC to use it in their officially licenced product would be to buy it from Mercer, at which point they would need to pull the Gunslinger from the DMsGuild and drop it into UA for playtesting, let it cycle through and then if it survives drop it in an expansion book.
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Ya know, Mercer already did one better by producing all of that for us. Including a setting book for Tal'Dorea (spelling?) itself. Pay Matt himself rather than have Wizards need to buy the rights and potentially make a muck of it. Nothing against WotC, but CR is just fine as it's own entity.
You can't assume guns exist in every D&D world; that's the reason the DMG firearms are optional. That alone relegates the archetype to a setting-specific book at best.
The Sharpshooter Fighter from UA fell flat on its face. The Gunslinger might not have enough widespread appeal to make it into an official product.
It ignores the DMG firearm and explosives rules. For example...
The DMG pistol has 30/90 range and the loading property. The Gunslinger pistol has 100/400 range and Reload 4.
The DMG musket has 40/120 range and the loading property. The Gunslinger musket has 200/800 range and Reload 1.
The archetype changes the rules for the Reload property. The DMG requires an action or bonus action, the Gunslinger changes it to an action or an attack.
DMG makes the logical choice of using Dexterity Saving Throws for explosives; the Gunslinger explosives use attack rolls.
Likewise the Scatter property uses attack rolls instead of Dexterity Saving Throws, even though nothing short of full plate would help against that kind of weaponry, and also leaves the door open for Shield and Deflect Missiles to work.
It's really nice thematically, but it's also very niche and clashes too much with established game mechanics.
WotC owe Geek and Sundry's Critical Role for catapulting D&D into this new renaissance it is seeing.
They give them plenty of hat tips, but how about taking Matt Mercer's Gunslinger Fighter Archetype, and giving it the UA treatment and over time, make it an official D&D subclass.
I wouldnt say they Owe CR for anything, It was at least a year before Me and tons of people i know even heard of CR. It would be doing jsut as god without CR .
I just wish D&D Beyond could use Official third Party stuff. that way they could negotiate with CR or the publishing company they used for the Tal'Dorei guide to include Tal'Dorei options.
I just wish D&D Beyond could use Official third Party stuff. that way they could negotiate with CR or the publishing company they used for the Tal'Dorei guide to include Tal'Dorei options.
They're actually extremely compatible with 3rd party stuff. The homebrew tool can do almost anything (except base classes -- and that's something that they ARE working on). To ask for ALL 3rd party is ridiculous as there are so many.. let alone so much garbage. Just make your own. sure, its not the lazy way and takes time to use but it CAN be used on here
@Nux But I waaaaaant to be lazy! (Fair point, mate)
@Relux_the_Relux I'm talking about things actually published. I guess, like you're pointing out that barely means anything any more since anyone with enough time and effort can get it published on things like DM's Guild and such. So my complaint may quite well be meaningless.
For example, I've actually added the Kraken Patron to my homebrew (Crawford's example on how he designs/homebrews subclasses -- what the UA Lurker in the Deep was inspired by) for a player who was interested in it.. 2 weeks later the Lurker showed up any ways... but my player prefers pure kraken so we stuck with that. (a few feature differences. They both have pros and cons -- personally I like the kraken level 1 tentacle ability where it's a grapple CC as opposed to just a damaging, whipping tentacle)
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WotC owe Geek and Sundry's Critical Role for catapulting D&D into this new renaissance it is seeing.
They give them plenty of hat tips, but how about taking Matt Mercer's Gunslinger Fighter Archetype, and giving it the UA treatment and over time, make it an official D&D subclass.
As I understand it since the Gunslinger is available on the DMsGuild the only way for WotC to use it in their officially licenced product would be to buy it from Mercer, at which point they would need to pull the Gunslinger from the DMsGuild and drop it into UA for playtesting, let it cycle through and then if it survives drop it in an expansion book.
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Ya know, Mercer already did one better by producing all of that for us. Including a setting book for Tal'Dorea (spelling?) itself. Pay Matt himself rather than have Wizards need to buy the rights and potentially make a muck of it. Nothing against WotC, but CR is just fine as it's own entity.
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Three big problems:
It's really nice thematically, but it's also very niche and clashes too much with established game mechanics.
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Nah, that's okay.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile.
Wizards should make their own version, I honestly don't think Matt Mercer's is any good...
I just wish D&D Beyond could use Official third Party stuff. that way they could negotiate with CR or the publishing company they used for the Tal'Dorei guide to include Tal'Dorei options.
They're actually extremely compatible with 3rd party stuff. The homebrew tool can do almost anything (except base classes -- and that's something that they ARE working on). To ask for ALL 3rd party is ridiculous as there are so many.. let alone so much garbage. Just make your own. sure, its not the lazy way and takes time to use but it CAN be used on here
Also what is even "official third party"?
@Nux But I waaaaaant to be lazy! (Fair point, mate)
@Relux_the_Relux I'm talking about things actually published. I guess, like you're pointing out that barely means anything any more since anyone with enough time and effort can get it published on things like DM's Guild and such. So my complaint may quite well be meaningless.
Doesn't a third party own rights to Mercer's Taldorei Setting book? So WotC would have to pay THEM, not Mercer.
For example, I've actually added the Kraken Patron to my homebrew (Crawford's example on how he designs/homebrews subclasses -- what the UA Lurker in the Deep was inspired by) for a player who was interested in it.. 2 weeks later the Lurker showed up any ways... but my player prefers pure kraken so we stuck with that. (a few feature differences. They both have pros and cons -- personally I like the kraken level 1 tentacle ability where it's a grapple CC as opposed to just a damaging, whipping tentacle)