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Though in fairness to Mike Shea, what is overpowered is somewhat table dependent, I think. I have seen wildly different views on what is...

Neither of those assertions is even close to true.

I've DMed a lot of different groups over the years and I see no way a game with the complexity of flexibility of D&D can avoid having a...

I think it has always fallen to the GM to adjudicate these sorts of things and that should be built into the games we run. I now have a...

I think the problem is fairly obvious. The casuals and theater kids aren't causing balance problems because of the design. The power...

Exactly. Use the right tool for the right job. It's not meant for hitting 1-2 big bags of hit points, it's meant for quickly clearing...

I still think fireballs are really powerful. I've played close to a thousand 5e games in the past ten years and no one has ever been...

I'm pretty sure we're still on 5e because I updated the books on DDB without telling my players (who don't care about such things) and...

Some of us still see it as a feature and one of the reasons we still play the game, especially when for various reasons we have limited...

shrugs At this point I don't care. D&D has been in WotC hands for 28 years and in the hands of Hasbro for 26 years. And it's not as if...

Talk about edition wars. :) The "edition" we should be changes based on what you take into consideration. If we were like software we...

I think the trajectory has always been toward trying to create consistency from the chaos of early D&D. Even much maligned THAC0 is an...

Can we not have edition wars yet again?

How much time do you have? ;) The big things from 2e to 3e were of course changing the math. No more THAC0, all numbers go up, higher...

WotC, in the Hasbro financial statements and press releases has not confirmed the position you take from Bookscan data. They have...