D&D General D&D without Resource Management

[Micah Sweet]

Because we have spellslots instead of Mana / Sorcery Points (or what that Variant rule is called). Everybody who have used the Variant Spellppoint Rules to replace spellslots makes the same experience: Caster always use the highest spells. Instead of 2 or three fireballs, and then shatter and then catapult, it is fireball all the way till they got no more Mana.

Yeah, optional rules that replace rules and increase the difficulty for the players are rarley used. Gritty Realism. Variant encumbrance ...
Optional rules that give players benefits are like always taken (Flanking).

If given a choice, players will always opt to make it easier for themselves, even if it kills the game because it becomes to easy.

This is why I prefer a tougher default.

 

[nevin]

Lets be honest. Tracking system, resource management for D&D is like the IRS in real life. If your DM enforces it, necessary but not fun.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Fireball is only good in enclosed spaces if you are a Sorcerer with the Careful Spell metamagic ability.

Or an evoker.

 

[nevin]

Or an evoker.

or the party is high enough level to survive better than the swarm or multiple baddies attacking you...

 

[Reynard]

Fireball is only good in enclosed spaces if you are a Sorcerer with the Careful Spell metamagic ability.

Things that should never have appeared in D&D:

#1. The ability to carve out spaces in fireball so party members don't get hurt.

 

[nevin]

Things that should never have appeared in D&D:

#1. The ability to carve out spaces in fireball so party members don't get hurt.

LMAO. I think MetaMagic is on the list of 10 worst designed thing DND ever did.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Things that should never have appeared in D&D:

#1. The ability to carve out spaces in fireball so party members don't get hurt.

Agreed. It's basically the whole reason folks didn't always use fireball. Making it a problem easy to ignore right from the get-go in 5e was a mistake IMO, and an early sign that WotC had different priorities than me long before their version of D&D became untenable personally.

 

[Micah Sweet]

LMAO. I think MetaMagic is on the list of 10 worst designed thing DND ever did.

I liked 3e's metamagic feats. I say remove the sorcerer class, and more strongly establish spell points as an alternative system to spell slots for a broader magic-user class.

You can keep warlock separate though. That's a cool concept.

 

[nevin]

Agreed. It's basically the whole reason folks didn't always use fireball. Making it a problem easy to ignore right from the get-go in 5e was a mistake IMO, and an early sign that WotC had different priorities than me long before their version of D&D became untenable personally.

I think focusing just on fireball is the reason this never gets fixed. metamagic ranges from Useless to overpowered and potentially game breaking with an inexperienced DM. MetaMagic should simply be removed and go back to letting wizards research their own versions of spells.

 

[nevin]

I like spell points we've done some games with them but making everyone spontaneous casters is a huge buff to clerics and wizards. You really have to buff everyone else or cut way down on the spell points which feels very bad for the casters.