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Crimson Longinus reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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That's exactly the abdication of design I was talking about though! "Fun" is complicated and subjective of course, but ultimately it's... -
Crimson Longinus replied to the thread Contemporary Simulationist TTRPGs [+].Obviously not to 3e levels, but definitely more than in 4e. No, nor do most players in general. But they still might have preferences...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
No, that's exactly the transference that's being pointed out. You gave the player a problem to solve and tools to solve it, if the...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.But self nerfing is no fun either! Beating a challenging fight that was challenging only because you intentionally played stupidly just...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Earliest attribution (in the usual slightly different form) seems to be Soren Johnson, a different designer working on Civilization. Sid...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.And that is a sentiment I fully agree on!
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Mustrum_Ridcully's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Kinda, but I think it's really a warning aimed at game designers. Don't design your game so that the best strategies to play are unfun...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Considering this quote seemingly came out of, was it Sid Meier that someone said? I think it's about both designers and players. It's...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Horwath's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
Haha.
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.So whilst players might need to avoid broken charop combo builds, this is not what we are discussing here. We are talking about using...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.So this is sort of true, but the phrasing puts the blame on the players whereas I don't think it is their fault. What is going on is...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Sorinth's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I'm of the opinion that a lot of problems could be solved if the spell DC was based at least partly on on the level of the spell slot...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to mellored's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
The solution i like is something like... The boss creature takes an additional turn at initiative -10. The legendary creature takes 2...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to SkidAce's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Identify all the problematic control spells and change them to one level higher than they are now? Like you said about math, if a spell...