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What is worse is they did reissue it as Phadelver and Below and more or less ruined what was a great adventure.

Not very reliably. Against 10 enemies with 14hps and a 20% chance of saving, a 3rd level fireball with no enhancements will clear all 10 of them out about 55% of the time, or slightly more than half, and that assumes you can get all of them in the AOE. You need to drop hit points to about 10...

Most of the time it does support the conclusion because fireball is difficult to place to use effectively. You can always use Chromatic Orb without concern about damaging enemies. It does not always do damage, but you can always use it and while you do 0 damage if you miss on the first attack...

CO is actually one of very few spells that is a more efficient high level cast than a low level cast. If you cast it with a 6th level spell it is gauranteed to hit 7 enemies for 8d8 us long as you keep hitting with your attack roll. When you add in things like Bardic Inspiration, Heroic...

I would not say CO was a good spell, but I would say it is generally a better (or I guess you can say less bad) spell than Fireball,assuming the same slot level for both. If you told me I had room to prepare either CO or Fireball, but not both, I would pick CO.

That just complicates character creation IMO, the attribute value is no longer used now except for when you get ASIs, and you can easily change that to be +1 every 8 levels or whatever.

I don't know if this can be answered conclusively, I can tell you what my experience is. I play a lot of D&D (currently 6 campaigns, with 4 every week) and rolling is the most common way I come across and that includes with DMs worldwide.* Rolling used to be overwhelmingly the most common...

You can already do that, if it is official rules, it is essentially no change from the current system.

Like I said earlier, the only TTRPG I have played in the last 30 years is D&D, so telling me to check out something else does not answer the question. Just tell me how they do it.

And rolling abilities is and remains a very popular option (maybe the most popular), so any system is going to have to come up with a reasonable way to do that.

They can, many players just don't want to because they want to put a lot of emphasis on Constitution. That is a choice IMO and one that has ramifications. Personally, this is why Constitution is usually my 4th highest ability and sometimes my 5th highest ability, because I don't want to suck...

Ok so then this is not something I want and not something WOTC is going to do for D&D IMO. Rolling abilities is still extremely popular, there is some debate whether or not it is the most popular way of generating abilities, but whether it is still the most popular or not, it is still very...

Having seen a substantial amount of 2024 5E play, I think Chromatic Orb is generally a better spell than Fireball if using the same level slot for both. Fireball is situationally much better, and arguably more reliable damage, but at most slot levels Chromatic Orb will be statistically...

You still are not answering my question though. How do you randomly generate your ability scores in a fashion that works if you are using just a -2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3 system? How do the other game systems you mention do it? I am not saying I am against this, just that I don't see how you can...

I think it is possible, you just need a much less rules-intensive mathematical model for the system. Have more things decided by feel, quality and judgement instead of rules and numbers.