D&D General Weapons should break left and right

[Lanefan]

Oh, I agree 110%. I'm just pointing out OS players are very attached to the idea that a class should be good at exactly one thing and dog water in all others rather than a general competence with areas of specialization like modern gaming assumes.

Those bolded things could be the same, provided "general competence" maps to what an ordinary fit person is capable of without specialized training.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Hotter take but vancian is bad.



Yes, but they are speaking to people like me who despise OSR sensibilities.

Then you can speak for yourself, and so can they.

 

[Lanefan]

Lanefan also wants to change modern D&D by making it return to old D&D, I have the right and desire to want it to change too.

One of these days if we're ever in the same town you and I should sit down for a beer or three. That could be one fun chat!

 

[Micah Sweet]

Or they just leave it in last safe place, go to dungeon, clear it, come back with wagon and put all the phat loot on it. To be honest, wagon and pack animals are one of the first purchases in our home games for over a decade now. And if animals get eaten, we usually use Animate dead and put few zombies up front to drag it. Or just come back to wagon for short rests. But then again, we rarely do classic dungeons or wilderness survival games any more. Wagon is never forgotten, at lest in my games. Your mileage may vary.

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"All topics about D&D" covers all editions. It says include, not exclude.

 

[Lanefan]

But why? Why do you want the entire game to change for everyone to suit your desires? If the other poster to whom you were responding explained it, they've blocked me so I don't see it.

@GobHag is referring to me, I think, and is looking to promote a countering view to my own.

Seems to me that's what a discussion forum is all about.

 

[Lanefan]

Because who else is going to support my desire for the game. Time, taste, and corporate meddling and other considerations by WotC will inevitably sand it off from compromise with other playstyles and reality so I should advocate the style I want as much as I can.

So now I'm curious: in short form, what would your ideal D&D look like? What would its style be? How would it play at the table?

 

[CreamCloud0]

Notoriously, they stay by the door of the dungeon and never disappear or get eaten, right alongside those horses PCs buy and forget once they enter the dungeon.

(Seriously, you think it's hard for PCs to account for the gear they are carrying, it's impossible for them to remember the gear they're not...)

i saw my chance to make a DM of the Rings reference and i am taking it

 

[Remathilis]

i saw my chance to make a DM of the Rings reference and i am taking it
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I still refer to backpacks as "the invisible leather TARDIS"

 

[Maxperson]

you also had more or less limitless minor magic in 3.5e, see Reserve feats.

Yep. By that point in 3e, they were playtesting ideas for 4e, some of which went on to be included in 5e.

 

[Maxperson]

Hotter take but vancian is bad.

What does vancian have to do with it?