Recent content by codo

It's still a dick move to harass the customers of a restaurant, just because you liked the old menu better.

Sorry I misread your post. You claim that "group a is a lot more valuable" is pretty ambiguous. The English language really sucks some times.

You claim that that group A(people who buy every book) are more valuable then group B(those who only buy a couple of books). This only makes sense if you are only looking at revenue and ignoring production costs and expensive. After all, producing to many books with to few sales is how TSR...

No, that's not how it works at all. You are acting like it doesn't cost Wotc anything to produce and market the books at all. To produce a book they need to pay authors, artist, editors, etc. It still cost them the same to produce a book no matter how many copies you sell. Selling 1 million...

Personally I think Patient Defense and Step of the Wind shouldn't require discipline points. They both already require a bonus action, which means the monk is already giving up their bonus action attack. However I think they both are a bit to good to not require a resource cost. They...

5e could certainly use more general rules like this. I actual have high hopes for the new DMG. While the current DMG does actually have lots of good info in it, it is frankly, a mess. Rewriting the DMG to actually teach new players how to DM and making it more user friendly, like Crawford has...

So you agree that the designers can't service every niche, but insist that they include the niche rules that you want? What makes the niche rules you want more important that the niche rules that other people want?

Why not include more subclasses in both books? Everyone loves more subclass options. It's not like there are limited subclass options and they are going to run out. I could easily whip up a hundred new subclasses off the top of my head right now.

The same things I said about the PHB also apply to splat books like Xanathar's as well. Why include niche rules that most tables won't use, when you could add more subclasses instead. Niche rules like this are the perfect opportunity for 3PP books. Rules that are only going to appeal to 5% of...

I am getting older, and my eyes aren't what they used to be. I would get a lot more out of making the books easier to read than I would the additional rules you want, and I am certainly not alone in this. Why use the extra space for niche rules that most groups will never want or use, when you...

It doesn't though. Page count isn't free. Including the rules you want either means adding more pages, and increasing the cost, or not including other rules, that are more popular and will be used by more players. Adding the rules you want, actually makes it worse for me, and lots of other...

Because the designers would rather include things that most players would actually use, like more subclasses and spells, rather that niche rules that most tables would never use. Books have limited space, you can't include everything. The simplicity and stream lined rules are one of the major...

Not to mention that DMs felt it was necessary to use the rules because they had a player that took the "Expert Shoveler" feat, and not using the rules would completely invalidate the players build choices.