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One of the things that did hold it down was their uncertainty with regard to the controller role. Had they been dedicated to making it...

Roles are expressed as ideas, interpretations of their expected behaviors and tactics. This is translated into game mechanics, which...

I must insist on the distinction between an actual area attack and simple multi-targeting. The latter has an upward target limit, is...

Oh, certainly they could avoid the area at-wills -- but Controllers were consistently the only class that could opt in to them. Just as...

The invoker/wizard in my long-running game didn't have any at-will AoE - his main at-will was Mantle of the Infidel, for range and...

I always felt the mechanical identity of controllers was their access to at-will area attacks.

That's interesting. Do you similarly think of Paladins as a special case of Invokers or Wardens as special cases of Druids? (Not...

Monster attacks are (originally; I can't recall if MM3 changed anything in this regard) Level+5 vs AC and Level+3 vs NADs per the DMG...

Yup, good summary. Building on it a bit... 4E "Trained" for skills giving a flat +5 bonus is a pretty different concept from 5E...

If one is to assume that they intended the standard array (16,14,13,12,11,10) to be functional, and that they wanted any race to be able...