doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Oh hey that’s one of my hills too!Using a purpose-built tool will always yield better results than misusing a tool built for a different purpose. Just because you can use a screwdriver as a makeshift hammer doesn't mean the screwdriver is a hammer. The hammer will always be better at hammering things than the screwdriver.
D&D 5E is a purpose-built tool for monster fighting. Just because you can use it to badly produce vaguely story-like things does not make it a storytelling game. Just because you can use it to try to simulate the life of your character doesn't make it a life sim. Tacking on rules that generate better story-like things from play and simulate life better doesn't change what the game was designed to do, i.e. fight monsters.
Just…not in the same direction.
A game is a toolset, not a tool. 5e is worse at some things because it leaves space open for adding tools from other toolkits, and generally those tools will work.
Most people who are playing D&D aren’t trying to play one thing, they’re trying to play the full story of a group of people. It’s ridiculous to change games to tell a heist story with the same characters you’ve been playing a high stakes save the world adventure game with, for that one heist adventure, and then go back to the adventure game. No, the reasonable thing to do is to add heist story tools to the adventure game, and tell a heist adventure story.
Also, 5e isn’t a game about fighting monsters, it’s an OC Generating Save The World Adventure game.