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Isn't that just shifting the problem? Now all your mysteries etc can only be solved by magic? I'm not sure how that is "better." The...

5e already leaned into a distinction between PC stat blocks and NPCs. The 2024 revision has deepened this divide; whereas giving...

which is not what I said WotC should do. They definitely should ask for feedback during the design process to see how popular ideas...

I do not understand your response in the context of the discussion at hand.

I think the proper term for warlock magic would be witchcraft.

While I like the simplicity of the 5e foundation for me to use as a toolkit, I can see the validity in what you said.

I could get on board with this. I ran something similar once for a short-lived campaign for characters around 14-16 years of age - so...

Bearing in mind that I am inventing numbers as I write this post, and thus any numerical balance is extremely unlikely to bear out...

Exactly, player psychology matters....which means the designers are not likely going to make that mistake again - money matters.

I'm struggling to envision this, do you have an idea/example that elaborates some of your thought process?

So designers do whatever and ignore player psychology...how did @Zardnaar and @Scribe feel about 4e...?

Irrelevant. Player psychology is doing so. Are we now saying that the players should adjust to the game's design, regardless of their...

While this is an interesting idea,I am wondering how exactly one would overhaul the combat system in order to make these inherent...

It is? When was that established? I never got that understanding from it, and it was never communicated in any of the level-based games...

Again, it makes perfect sense when you've decided that this is the hill you are going to die on and no amount of evidence will shift...