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Okay. Still, 11 years when 1e lasted all of....13 years IF you decide that "there's literally only a monster manual, nothing else" counts as the game having launched. (For my part, I put 1e's launch at 1978, because at that point you had the rules to actually PLAY the game, even if you didn't...

...Wasn't 2e the longest-lived edition of them all? For the "AD&D" line, I mean.

5e was an entry point for a large number of people into the hobby. As a result, its prioritization of (player-facing) simplification was very useful. Now, however, I believe it is becoming a stumbling block. People are only "new" for a little while--perhaps a few years at most. 5e lacks for...

There are three problems. First, it's just not particularly fun to have constant, never-ending, never-fading time pressure. But if it isn't constant, any of the times it isn't around are the times you exploit the "70mwd" to its fullest. The irony being that, because short rests ARE such a large...

What you--very explicitly--said in this very thread, as I specifically quoted, was that people are finally realizing that spellcasters suck. No. Spellcasters do not suck. Wizards do not suck. You have this crusade championing the idea that non-spellcasters are somehow OP simply because they...

Ah damn. Somehow I thought there was already a 5.5e version of Redemption, so I thought I was sticking only to 5.5e options. Guess not. So, I guess replace Redemption with Ancients, given it has magic resist aura. Twilight, Eloquence, Watchers, and Peace do not exist yet for 5.5e, so I wasn't...

"Longer marathon type meta" functionally doesn't exist. I'm 100% certain that there are real GMs out there who actually do run things that way. I'm also 100% certain that such GMs are a vanishingly tiny minority. The vast, VAST majority of games simply do not run that long because it is not...

Zardnaar: Also Zardnaar: Sixty percent of your second party ARE FULL-CASTERS. And of the other two, one is ALSO a partial spellcaster. Of your first group, one is a full-caster, and one is nearly so, especially if you take certain things to make you more of a caster (like Pact of the Tome)...

Given I started something like 10, maybe even 20 campaigns in a single year (several years ago now) trying to find any table I could join that wouldn't fold before session 7-or-equivalent, I imagine it's one factor, but it's not the only one, nor is it overwhelming. Because I've never liked...

Exactly. As I have more than once said, D&D 5e is missing something like 11-12 class-fantasy archetypes from its roster (at maximum; some might dispute some and whittle it down to like 8-ish extras). Some of those archetypes are pretty fresh mechanically speaking, like Warlord, or are things...

On occasion. With reluctance. I strongly dislike the play experience of levels 1-4 in 5e. I can tolerate starting at 3rd if I have to, and I will endure starting at 1st if that is what the GM tells me to do. I just really really really really really don't like having to if I have any...

Speak for yourself. Both my current GM and the two best GMs I ever had in 4e were amazing at it. I myself am okay at it. Good enough to have kept players for years and years. I think I'll be okay without retiring and handing over our game to an extremely advanced pattern-recognition software...

My only issue with the new change is that I think they should have called the original product "5.0" or "5.0e" or the like. That way, you'd have three labels: 5e/"Fifth Edition": Umbrella term for all games which are published under this ruleset 5.0(e)/"Fifth Edition (Original)"/"Five-oh"...

Man, it must really suck to see something you value get shouted down by the loudest group. I wouldn't know anything about that though. Such a tragedy that it only now struck Fifth Edition in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-six, and not thirteen years prior.

I'll be interested to see what conclusions you draw. I've been working on my own 5e Summoner, built off the 5.0 Warlock chassis, that is, the "split subclass" model where to some extent both Pact and Patron are partial subclasses. I decided to go all in for the association with strange...

These days, I essentially only play Celestial Warlock if I play Warlock at all--I just like its thematics and mechanics too much. So, for me, they look like golden shooting stars, or possibly golden blades. I imagine the character gesturing with their hand, more or less like how Iron Man does...

Oh, for sure new editions have also introduced their fair share of stuff. However, if you look back at just how horrendously organized the original books were....I think that's evidence enough for how ill-suited early D&D was to onboarding new players. That it succeeded as it did is a testament...

I had been referring primarily to the Advanced line, so that wouldn't be that much of a problem. I would still argue that the Basic line was only relatively beginner-friendly compared to the Advanced line. Yes, it is more--significantly so!--compared to 1e, 2e, etc. You'll never hear me say...

If that was the design intent, then every designer since Gary Gygax has horrendously failed at that goal, to an utterly absurd degree. There is nothing actually casual/entry-level about D&D. Never has been. The only reason it gets away with anyone thinking it is such is because it's so...

For perhaps the first time ever, I am actually with you on this one. I've played in three campaigns since 5.5e launched (well, one was just before the official launch) and I've seen exactly none of the "juggling" folks talk about here. Instead, I've seen quite a bit more dual-wielding than I had...