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Lol I used assassin as well and bhaalists. Same thing happened all 7 got paralyzed. I redid them at CR13 and buffed the hell out of...

So legendary resistance is a bit of kludge, but at least it somewhat works. I think monsters generally having crap saves is a bigger...

In the final game of one of my DMs epic years long campaign, we fought the lich who was behind most of the campaigns machination. We...

That's exactly the abdication of design I was talking about though! "Fun" is complicated and subjective of course, but ultimately it's...

Obviously not to 3e levels, but definitely more than in 4e. No, nor do most players in general. But they still might have preferences...

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...

But self nerfing is no fun either! Beating a challenging fight that was challenging only because you intentionally played stupidly just...

Earliest attribution (in the usual slightly different form) seems to be Soren Johnson, a different designer working on Civilization. Sid...

And that is a sentiment I fully agree on!

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...

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...

So whilst players might need to avoid broken charop combo builds, this is not what we are discussing here. We are talking about using...

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...