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I've been around the block on this sort of thing for a while now, on various other entertainment-media subjects. I know what this is. This is a combo of trend-chasers trying to be trend-setters, and people reading tea leaves way ahead of any actual....developments. So, you know me. You know I'm...

Oh, God, what have you done? You've given me a reason to blather. Oh boy. Gonna be burning the midnight oil for this...or not. I promised my best friend I wouldn't. But you'd better freakin' BELIEVE you're gonna be seeing heightened maximized quickened wall of text!

So anyone who writes "Druid" on their character sheet is automatically an ass? That seems kinda harsh.

And here we have the "well everyone plays the way I do, so this cannot be a problem".

In my experience? No, no it does not "quickly reveal it", unless it's something so horrendously stupidly broken that even the person DOING it will usually admit how broken it was and accept that it was a one-time-only thing. Instead, for the vast majority of it, it builds up slowly, one brick...

I mean, a cohesive vision would also have resulted in somewhat less content being made, right? Like...that's kind of the point of having a cohesive vision. To cut down on the chaff and increase the wheat. And my response is and will always be that anything which starts from "the PHB" is...

The single most powerful feats in all of 3.5e--Leadership and Natural Spell--are both available in the PHB. Leadership is the single most banned feat, period. But, just as you say, there absolutely, unquestionably are features in later books which are more powerful than the average power level...

My thought is that the question asked here, and the statement to which I responded, are two different things. Or, at least, I think a LOT of the people who respond to this question are not answering the question you intended to be asking. Because reading this, it sounds like: Is there ANY...

I was trying to point out that this is a weakness of 5e's design that was intentionally put there, and which could have been designed in a different way, such that this wasn't actually required literally every single game.

Perhaps...but given how Hussar has felt about the maps in Out of the Abyss, I think it's possible to say that you can have too many bad maps.

I mean...wouldn't it be better if you just....didn't have to do that? Like if most characters were all clearly in the same ballpark pretty much all of the time?

I was talking about 3.5e. 3.5e has the vast majority of its most insanely broken things right there in its PHB. Splats were not a problem because of power creep. They were mostly a problem because the vast majority of stuff in them sucked, and most of what didn't suck required significant...

Given the PHB contains some of the most powerful classes, spells, and feats, I'm not really sure power creep is the real problem here.

Good LORD I would love more actual player-facing content.

I am not persuaded by any argument which simply says "well what if we tried to do that with less?" If your goal is to create a minimalist game, cool, but D&D hasn't been that...ever. Not even Basic was that minimalist. I, personally, think that the Assassin is as different from the Rogue and...

Well, for me, there would be an Assassin class, of which the Ninja is one subclass. Other subclasses could be Agent (think "fantasy James Bond"), Cleaner (brutal "kill all witnesses" type), Poisoner (pretty obvious...), and some kind of esoteric-mysticism option that provides partial...

Fully agreed. A certain edition was pilloried for making everyone into spellcasters and making it so all classes played the same. 5e then actually DID make nearly everyone spellcasters....and actually DID make all classes play more or less the same. While I agree with the topline, I disagree...

Having had both experience and training in pedagogy? You'd be surprised how much the sensory components of acquiring information can affect whether, and how much, you retain that information. It is very easy to assume that one's own sensory experience is the same as anyone else's going through...

It would be a "old man shakes fist at cloud" type post if it were simply saying that digital media are bad solely because they are digital media. That is, thankfully, not at all the argument Mr. Tresca has presented to us. Instead, the argument being presented is that digital media can be...

I guess I don't have the problems you describe because I...have always needed to integrate every possible source as part of my learning. I listen. I read. I check wikis. I speak with others. I physically write things down with pens and paper. The only way I ever truly understand a thing is if...