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WOTC still can't get the backgrounds right in the new FR book.
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i really think putting prescribed ASI in backgrounds must've been one of the most braindead decisions the Wizards design department...
Nov 1, 2025
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It is a correct assumption 99% of the time, because stats are highly limited and story is free Occasionally players will purposely play...
Nov 1, 2025
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The claim was "pretty much" which isn't 0%. And yes most are just not going to play that when they can play a custom background, get a...
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It is not this one thing that matters so much, it is that the background system is so screwed up. The best Monks are Sailors and the...
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Because it's D&D. It's the same reason I saw an awful lot of Sailor backgrounds in D&D 2014. It wasn't so much about optimizing for...
Nov 1, 2025
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That's not how it works. It doesn't matter how good the story is if the mechanics make it not fun to play. Just look at 3.5, mechanics...
Nov 1, 2025
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Because they make the stat bonuses part of the background. If the background was only about story (like it was in 2014) it would not be...
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I've had it used by both a wizard and a bard in two separate 5e (2014) games to very good effect. The real power of the spell as a...
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Call it "most successful strategy" then.
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4e's Hit/Defense scaling was too high. 5e's Save/DC was too slow because it handed out proficiency and expertise too infrequently...
Nov 1, 2025
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It exposed to me a whole bunch of issues I was only vaguely aware of. The disparity between good and bad save tracks. Disjunction as a...
Nov 1, 2025
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Was it pointless? Was it really? Because it seems to me that we're running into the precise problems caused by having a system that...
Nov 1, 2025
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so, is not the root of the entire issue here the casting/existence of mordenkainen''s disjunction? that it's a Bad Spell? if it hadn't...
Nov 1, 2025
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And I say a game which is designed to make this happen even a tenth of the time is a badly-designed game. Like it is literally...
Nov 1, 2025
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Blame Mearls is convenient. He was only one guy though he's just giving insight on the process.
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