D&D 5E 5E: The Best and the Worst

[Morrus]

List two things.

1) Your biggest criticism or dislike of 5E.

2) Your favourite thing about 5E.

Only one of each allowed.

 

[ad_hoc]

Dislike: Fighters designed as abilities rather than a narrative identity.
Like: 3 Pillars of play

 

[Colder]

Dislike the lack of mechanical distinction between weapons.

Like the ease of use present in everything else.

 

[dagger]

1) Too many classes cast spells.

2) Its not 4e.

 

[mrpopstar]

Dislike: The irregular approach to subclass design across classes.
Like: The simplicity of the rules overall.

 

[dropbear8mybaby]

Dislike: that certain design decisions were promised and then not adhered to.

Like: that it mostly works and is mostly balanced.

 

[guachi]

Like: Advantage/Disadvantage

Dislike: Forgotten Realms. Ugh.

 

[tuxgeo]

(1) Dislike: The reductionism. The game evolved from the simplicity of OD&D to 2E and 3E and 4E because more people thought of more things to add to it. If OD&D was simple, that was partly due to the fact that nobody could think up all that stuff in a single year, or even in two or three years. It took decades for many fine minds across the world to develop the content for the first SRD. However, the design guidelines for 5E included making the (older) OD&D players feel at least partly welcome, so WotC excised many more-developed ideas, including some that (according to me) really didn't need to go.
(2) Like: The sturdy chassis. They can hang many new developments onto the chassis of 5E, at least in part because they built the underlying mechanics so solidly that they won't need to change the basic assumptions for a long time (relatively speaking).

 

[Zardnaar]

Like: the 5E chasis most of the classes.

Dislike various annoying rules (armor, drawing weapons etc).

 

[Ath-kethin]

Like: a return to explicitly authorizing the DM as final arbiter and gatekeeper in the game.

Dislike: the inherent restrictions and design limitations of the existing class chassis/subclass design, especially as it applies to wizards.