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For those that're saying "hey, just make them all feats," either you're thinking of, or have not heard of, the Adventurer class. Someone said that they liked the old split 50/50 method from earlier editions, for that you can try Horwath's homebrew for it which basically gives the PC a few extra...

Overall I agree with your points, but this one ^^^ I don't- the power of player characters in a system is (IMO) determined by how the PCs stack up vs. the monsters. For example, how scary an ogre will be to a low level party, or how a mid-level party will fare against a couple of giants. Of...

I'm not up on 5.5e optimization, but I'd guess that multiclassing would provide more benefits than using a feat for masteries- depends on class ofc but in 5e I had heavy optimizer players taking dips for stuff like armor proficiency (1st level artificer, the rest wizard, so they'd get armor and...

Wow, I loved Reaper Man but I totally forgot about the

It's been too long since I reread the Discworld books, which one made you think Fantasy Mall?

That makes sense, though I never equated the ttrpg market with "make a quick buck." 😆

It's funny how true this is. We play A5E , but someone wanted to make a 5e24 character with weapon masteries... They have yet to remember to use them (and this is an optimizer character-build-loving player). It's early days in the game, so it could just be an adjustment thing, but still... Funny.

You can't please everyone, but I think it's easy to forget that The Internet is not one conglomerate of fans that hate everything released... Some people will cheer the new release, others will want old stuff brought back. They're typically not the same people.

Yeah I'm wondering if spell upcasting needs a buff in general in 5e, after seeing (I think) mearls say something about it.

I like the literal tiny hut idea, but AFAIK 2e's was a force bubble. Leomund's Tiny Hut (Wizard Spell) Maybe you're thinking of something else?

And the martial maneuvers a la 3.5e Tome of Battle (y) Though I don't imagine they dropped Fireball's damage to 8d6 because it's OP, rather that it makes it a flat-out better choice than similar aoe spells (lightning bolt). Just guessing there.

Oh hey, I had something similar with an ice devil/gelugon-descended NPC! ... And the PCs killed her.

That's something I had considered (pretty sure Drizzt did something like that vs Icingdeath... wait he doesn't have lightning bolts! Can't remember how he did that), how did you rule the stalagmite, btw? Dex save vs half, did you really fluff the damage up or?

So as I understand it, in order to make your virtual model, to then pay to have made, you need to pay for access to those CritRole options, which seems ridiculous since you're going to be buying the mini.. why not just charge more for the mini? Well, the answer may be... that they want to...

Can you elaborate on "forced casters to work more strategically?" A couple examples maybe? I'm also wondering how to get players to think that way, it definitely seems like a learned behavior... I've had some that would just repeatedly throw their hands up when the same tactic wouldn't work...