Recent content by AlViking

Last time I checked I don't have people shackled to my table if they don't like the game. I've been playing for a long, long time and occasionally people do drop out because D&D just isn't for them. People have a lot of demands on their time, I think you're vastly overstating the issue. If...

I would just add that any game of significant complexity will have compromises, things that will be a bit unfulfilling for some of the people playing the game. If you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. The one advantage that a lot of the games that sell fewer copies is that...

Those other games will be better ... for some people. Which game will be best depends on the individual and their circumstances.

Or because everybody hates the big guy and the people that gravitate to those games feel like they need to defend what they view as the underdog. Like D&D, hate it, something in-between I don't care. It would just be nice if we could have some threads that didn't always devolve into...

When it comes to disagreements about the rules we discuss them (sometimes after the session so we don't interrupt play) and the DM makes the final call. It's worked, even when I disagree with the final ruling, for decades for me and the people I play with. There have always been and will...

Back seat drivers always know best.

Personally I don't see it as a big issue, the intent was clear. If I'm going to argue about rules I don't like it will be for rules that are completely clear that I disagree with. In any case it sounds like they changed the wording.

Did I misunderstand? My takeaway is that you believe natural language is inferior to technical writing. IMHO (and it would seem the authors of 5e) technical language is dry, a barrier to entry to newbies and meanwhile the rules were just as contentious in 3e. I can always imagine a rulebook...

Overreliance on technical verbiage was a pretty major barrier to entry with 3e. I just don't see natural language causing issues all that often, the group discusses it and the DM makes a final ruling. It's not like all the geek-speak in 3e ever prevented rules disagreements.

Holy pedantically correct Batman! ;) It's a game. They wanted to give a character an option to move at the start of combat and other than call it by the acronym dnadwycmbyt (definitely-not-a-dash-where-you-can-move-before-your-turn), they just told you that you can take an action not...

Is it really any different than a monk or rogue being able to dash as a bonus action? It's clearly defined as an action after all. Specific overrides general and it's not a big deal unless you're trying to prove that the people who wrote the rules are ignorant. Since I don't think they're...

It also makes no sense. Yes a sword may dull (by RAW magic items do not) but it can be sharpened. I had an ax that had been used for countless years splitting and chopping wood. The handle had been replaced at one point but that was it. Tools, armor and weapons need maintenance and occasional...

I don't remember ever using treasure as a motivator. Maybe when I was a teenager and first starting to play, but we didn't put a lot of emphasis on it even then. Sometimes pulling off a heist is the motivation but even when it was the journey not the destination so to speak. Maybe that's part...

Regarding weapon masteries, it depends on the group, style of play, the character. Knick is good for rogues to get that second chance at sneak attack for example and not much use for anyone else. But if you can always get advantage so you almost always hit on the first shot (or for other...

To answer the OP I think it's far too early to say, the dynamic duo had a lot of influence on product still being produced. But even then, better for whom? For example I don't care for adventures or setting books, I run home campaigns in my own world. So if there's not another XGtE or...