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Yeah it's a shockingly shallow and rather unevidenced take from this blog. The idea that 5E14 was "internally consistent" but 5E24...

Is point buy balanced... Well, balance is compared to the other players, so since everyone has the same, by definition it is balanced...

In including the absolute ("totally balanced"), you make the answer simple: No.

How did the 5e vs 5.5e thread somehow randomly morph into the "Circus Troupe" thread about Setting Lore?

Point Buy is totally balanced, but the stats themselves are not. Depending on what class/subclass you're playing, there are always...

"AC and hp and saving throws -- grounded, simulationist, I feel connected to the game world, I love it." "Guard has 18 STR instead of...

I am this guy. Though I did read the DMG, multiple times. In my book, streamlining this kind of things is 100 % beneficial to the game...

Not to be overly flippant, but both are highly abstract mathematical models to use in a wargame scenario, that some flavor can be hung...

They mostly don't. That's stuff that rules nerds like us get all fussed about. Most players don't care that much. And how often do...

Oh I guess I thought we were just talking about people posting in this thread here, so I wasn't considering the original blog post...

I think it's more like they don't know the intricate details of either ruleset closely enough to notice the difference when their...

I must be blind because I'm not seeing much negativity from either side here. Seems to me like pretty reasonable debate from both...

But that assumes every group is using those. No one in my campaigns uses any summoning spells currently, for instance. A lot of the...

My issue with a lot of reactions to 2024 is that I transitioned mid-campaign and my players didn't even notice right away. For that...

Yeah same here. The main complaint I've heard from real-life people outside internet forums is "barely anything changed why should I...