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In my experience if you're having 5 MWD issues you aren't throwing enough encounters or enough waves of enemies in your encounters...

In the long term governments may tend to be more lawful than chaotic even if I would argue that many are neutral. But that doesn't mean...

Back to the OP, I think there are only minor issues I have with the character builder, most of which don't really bother me personally...

I sometimes assign odd numbers here and there either because I have plans for a higher level either a feat or because I left two odd...

I’m not sure what you mean by the quickbuilder “doesn’t even assign sensible stats based on your class.” It did when I tested it - it...

Even if I wanted to hack something now and then but I don't because I don't have the skills. Relatively few action hero movies ( which I...

I would just make hacking a skill or provide a helpful NPC - how often does it really come up? Seems like a role that's not needed for a PC.

For you perhaps. I accept that D&D is not attempting to be a reality simulator. I wouldn't want that for a game as dependent on combat...

True. Otherwise, the 5e PHB and the 5e DMG would be considered tomes several hundred pages thick. 😛

For that matter they avoid the complexities of a "medieval" reality as well.

They're selling D&D, not modern day urban fantasy. At least not currently.

No game can give specific instructions for everything PCs could possibly do in the fashion that D&D does. Systems like FATE kind of...

I doubt that they are all necessary for a contemporary fantasy to work. Plus, they would throw in too much complexity into a game that...

So because I had copilot up, I generated rules for D&D 5.5. I'm not going to bother posting and I'd have to play-test the rules but it...

The point of the exercise of it being a 5.5E setting versus something like Modern5E would be to keep the rules modifications to a...