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If the magic items, feats, class abilities, level-based bonuses are applied equally (in 5e they will not be*) then it's just raising the...

Well said, better than what I had started. Unfortunately it's not going to change anything, we'll just get more counter-factual...

This only works if mechanics matter. But I was replying to a post where @ECMO3 clearly articulates that the bias given by mechanics...

This is an odd position to take. That's not how balance is defined in any game with randomness. Balance is equality of opportunity and...

I'm turning people away in my games groups full. I could fill another group easily enough. One player is afk until May so I've got 5...

The DM has the right to restrict the game in any way they want. If a player can't adjust (Which realistically has never been the case)...

It would depend on why the species are limited and it's not wrong to ask. But the DM is well within their rights to say no. Personally I...

I never let it stop me from playing whatever I wanted, including things like a dwarven wizard. Not very optimized but I still had fun...

The DMG since generation of ability scores is in the DMG. I found nothing in there about the minimum - in fact the line I was thinking...

I don't understand. You define balance as "do both players sometimes succeed and sometimes fail." That's a pretty wild assertion, as...

Balance as far as I am concerned only matters from one character to the next at the same table. The two barbarians have dramatically...

So someone can either be a kick-ass barbarian or a pretty pathetic barbarian, 60 HP as a fighter at 8th level or 100 HP. These aren't...

We disagree, I'm done.

Just ignore the differences in damage per turn, HP, AC, class options, multi-classing feats. Ignore that I generated 10 tables of 5 so...

It's not 2 vs 3 it's 9 vs 14 damage. It's not 2 vs 3 it's 60 HP vs 100, AC 12 (at best 15 with armor) vs AC 17 with the same class and...