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Okay. Do you have any ideas about how to increase the AC of monsters? Does plate still give +8 and a shield +2?

People claimed on these boards all sorts of nonsense about the 6-8 encounters NOT meaning 6-8 encounters only to have it in black and white that it DID mean 6-8 encounters by 5e deaigners. I'm not going to buy the same nonsense on what BA is. If someone would like to define it differently that's...

The games DC runs from 5 to 30. Where would you have them stop? I disagree with your assessment. The game did not need +5 on ability modifiers. There are plenty of incremental benefits that could be provided to classes or abilities without the standard +1 +2, but it requires creativity.

Make x adjustment to monsters when utilizing +x weapons and armour. Simple and effective. Was it done. No. BA works. The flaw was not adhering to it. Terrible comparison. In 5e the player already starts with a +3 which eventually becomes a +5 from ability modifiers. You add a +1 or +2 from the...

That's incorrect. That was not the point of BA.

5e had a missed opportunity by not scrapping the + magic weapons and armour which broke Bounded Accuracy and instead focusing on Adamantine, Blessed, Cold Iron, Darkwood, Dragon Scale, Mithral, Silvered etc... to overcome monster resistances and immunities. What 5e did do is allowed for the...

Okay, but that is then strictly a change for Fireball, Cone of Cold and Ice Storm are correctly represented. Yeah, that was not the point of the exercise. Okay but to be thorough besides damage done on upcasting there are spells such as Hold Person that when upcasted allows you to add...

Interesting proposal Let us run through 3 examples FIREBALL 1e-2e method 5th level wizard casts 3rd level spell Fireball - 8d6 6th level - 9d6 8th level - 11d6 10th level - 13d6 15th level - 18d6 variant 5e, increase potency on upcast wizard casts 3rd level spell Fireball - 8d6 4th level...

Some DMs have all the luck. :ROFLMAO:

I consider myself an only GM because those that try to run games do so for 4-5 sessions and then take a forever break...that's happened twice in 10 years. These days I just decline offers to be a player because too many wannabe DMs (including my players) let me down.

I meant the entire character package which would include background. Even so I find it hard to to believe that players do not discuss their character (which would include their background) with the DM. Sometimes there is no need to, but when a player is prepared to lean into it, have the...

So it is your understanding that the majority of players and DMs do not negotiate/discuss possible character options? I really do not believe the Critical Role method is at all unique.

That is universal.

This is an old discussion where players insist EVERYTHING in their bible must be catered for and then the DM comes with his/her own bible and smacks them over the head with it for being pesky heretics. I believe this is a playstyle issue.

Apologies I thought you were signaling an equal share demographic being necessary for a setting and requiring all playable races be integrated.