I tried that once but it's more fun to roll openly and let the players see those glorious 20s.
D&D (2024) Command is the Perfect Encapsulation of Everything I Don't Like About 5.5e
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I tried that once but it's more fun to roll openly and let the players see those glorious 20s.
I tried it once but for me the d20 roll is the easiest one. It’s the damn fireball damage that I have to add upI tried that once but it's more fun to roll openly and let the players see those glorious 20s.
Well that's the rub.
Old school games pretty much only work if you have a group with similar mindset experiences and expectations.
D&D is a game specifically tailor to everyone. Because of that it has to be more strict on what it allows. This is why they command spell was changed
As great as games like Shadowdark and OSE are, They could never be the flagbearer for fantasy TTRPGs. Did direct appeal is way too niche to be the main engine and thruway into the hobby.
I use average damage almost all of the time for monster attacks. Kind of boring but much faster. I also allow players to use averages, especially when you get high level casters it helps.
R_J_K75
Legend
I understand that the term race is considered insensitive nowadays, I don't really agree with it but I don't have a problem with it either. The other 3 you mentioned just seem like change for the sake of change. I would have loved to have been in the meeting where the topic of what a huge problem the term Feeblemind has been to the game over the last 50 years and needs to be changed
Ki Points run into issues of stepping on real world spiritual beliefs. Feeble-minded is a no longer used medical term for mentally deficient and is quite derogatory.
I don’t think the change to command is much about the direction of the game or creating more ‘rules’ per se. I think it is directly tied to the upcoming VTT. It’s easier to code the computer calculation for a short subset of commands, than an open ended one. Likewise, summons and conjures are easier for the VTT to handle as AoE effects, rather than more processing power for multiple discrete additional creatures. Abilities mirroring spells, check. And so on.
I’d like to think that it’s because Wizards is trying to help newbie DM’s by limiting options in some cases, but looking at all the other bizarreness in the PHB, and interpretations of things, and actually trying to apply them (as a newbie GM), it’s definitely not that.
I’d like to think that it’s because Wizards is trying to help newbie DM’s by limiting options in some cases, but looking at all the other bizarreness in the PHB, and interpretations of things, and actually trying to apply them (as a newbie GM), it’s definitely not that.
the Jester
Legend
I mostly agree with the OP. Where I differ is that what OP describes as changes to the flavor of the spell are, in my judgment, actually not flavor at all but mechanics. "Flavor is free" is for things like "I want to use elf stats but call myself a belf instead and be blue". If you mess with the mechanics in any way, it's no longer flavor.
Anyway, I agree about command being a good bellweather, and I share OP's disappointment in the changes to it.
Anyway, I agree about command being a good bellweather, and I share OP's disappointment in the changes to it.
R_J_K75
Legend
I wasnt aware of these
I think the same problem that happened in 4e and 5e is happening.
They ran out of time and didn't get to everything by the time corporate said the books need to get to the printers.
Anybody who was involved with the open D&D next and a one D&D play test No that they wasted a lot of time on stuff that didn't get in.
