IDK. I came back to D&D with 4e and I don't feel that 5e doesn't include a bit of 4e in it. I don't think it needs to model the AEDU system to have been influenced by 4e. In fact, I think there are traces of it (AEDU design principles) in their, but I don't know how you could fully incorporate it and also not have it (for those who didn't like it). I personally feel 5e did a pretty good job of incorporating parts of 4e along with parts of other editions. Is it full on 4e, no - but that would be really odd if it was.
PS, isn't there a spell point system included in the DMG?
Heck to be honest I thought there were issues of game board interfering with Epic being true to scale in 4e as well.
In other arenas Rituals should be summoning armies of zombies and other elements not really fully developed like Martial Practices filling the same niche.
Hmmm makes me think of monetary resources in 4e every 5 levels is 5x as much as the previous...It is sorta like,
• Heroic determines the fates of regions/towns (population 100s, 10,000s)
• Paragon determines the fates of nations/cities (populations millions, 100 millions)
• Epic determines the fates of planes/worlds (populations 10 billions and trillions)
Its like every two levels gets an extra zero, starting with 1 at 1.
So..."You can totally play 5e just like 1e if you ignore all the rules in how 1e was played." Gotcha.
Tony, I played 1e from 1981 to 2012 when the 5e playtest came out. I'm pretty well versed in how 1e plays, and how it feels. What you're arguing is extremely dismissive of very important factors.
The number of persons whose life one impacts increases each level ...
1, 3, 10, 30, 100, 300, 1000, 3000, 10 000, 30 000, 100 000, 300 000, and 1 million at level 13.
This is decent ballpark figure for a DM to keep in mind when think about the ‘scale’ of a campaign.
The number of persons whose life one impacts increases each level ...
1, 3, 10, 30, 100, 300, 1000, 3000, 10 000, 30 000, 100 000, 300 000, and 1 million at level 13.
This is decent ballpark figure for a DM to keep in mind when think about the ‘scale’ of a campaign.
With planet Earth today having a population more than 3 billion but less than 10 billion, I think it is fair to say, Earth is a level 20 campaign setting.
At level 21, the D&D character would be solidly impacting every human on this planet, for good or less good − and even then expanding beyond into the populations of other planets.
Ok, OK, you built enough tension / anticipation - what was your hypothesis!?