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It makes sense. 5e monsters have always been balanced around the assumption of lasting 3 rounds of combat, but some monsters didn’t...

It seems like the best way to make NPCs and monsters make more sense in the context of the world, including their ability to challenge...

Keith is allowed to feel that 2024 D&D is too bright and big and high powered for him. His mistake, IMO, is in insisting that it marks...

Well, that's kind of exactly it, isn't it? Fiction as a constrain on design, vs. a tool to explain the design. The problem with D&D's...

To be fair however, that’s essentially what his quote was about: the style of play that benefited for his analysis is no longer really...

If WotC produces something that is actually sword&sorcery vs. what you are describing--hopepunk, I guess?--I'll eat my hat.

SJ and Planescape would be a lot better if done in the style of the recent Realms books. In that, a series of interesting locations and...

I mean, there's an argument that allowing for suboptimal and weak choices is necessary to allow for more character concept...

The SJ set was poorly done with a few good bits here and there; the PS set was better (not saying it was The Best), it didn't feel...

It the reading aspect of the rules and not actually giving it a try. I do not think, that the characters are really stronger in 20204 as...

There is so much power creep. SO MUCH. Every class is powered up. You could argue that martials need more oomph; but if that's the...

This isn't what his product line does, at all. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of The Monsters Know What They Are Doing (which takes...

I think the disconnect remains that somehow we want characters who are both good but not great. A good example IMHO is the 2014 ranger...

That's an interesting point, I hadn't thought of it like that.

Yep. It's pretty common among those who are newer to the hobby, and especially those who are focused on implementation and technique...