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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. "wHiTe RoOm ThEoRy" is not a rebuttal. It is a bald assertion...

Sure, but you sunk a resource to get that value and had to crit to do it. 6d8 crit + 2x8 + 5 cha gives that output just fine, and...

So they reflect real life when it's useful to you, and don't reflect real life when that would be useful to you. I hope you can see why...

Almost entirely among forum-goers. So where does that put your analysis here? It was the forum-goers who hated 4e. Their sustained hate...

So.... WotC built D&D 5e based on feedback from unrepresentative forum-goers who created a game that most people play for only a couple...

You keep tripping on the word "optimized". You don't need to be optimized. You just need to be not-stupid. Genuinely. Plenty of people...

Not at all. It is a matter of one player being GIVEN superiority by the game, solely for their aesthetic choices, while another is...

No. Tolerance for degrees of imbalance is subjective. Imbalance is, in the vast majority of cases, rooted in objective analysis...

frankly, considering some of the things i've seen argued on this forum, and some of the things i've seen argued off of it, i have to...

I’ve been in the hobby since 1977-78. I’ve played in over 100 different systems. All I can say about the aversion to 3PP stuff is most...

...so you DO think people on this forum are better at identifying imbalance then the average player. this is my problem with this sort...

Then put it this way: WotC themselves, using their own data about 5e, concluded that players were NOT happy about multiple underpowered...

then why does it actually matter if they're on this forum? if the only difference you're claiming makes people here outside the average...

I never spoke of people on this forum. I spoke of people writing Cleric or Druid on their sheet.

if the average player doesn't even play the game then how can they be a player at all?