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I asked the developer for a couple weeks to decide while I finish up (hopefully) another project. I'm torn, to say the least. Part of...

I heavily speculate that many are still playing 5.0 due to the Sunken Cost fallacy.

People literally cheered when WotC told them Vancian casting was being removed. "What people think of it" was wildly variable. People...

Nope. The whole system wasn't a bad idea. It was just to drastic a shift. If 4e Essentials were the original idea, it would have been...

I do not "realize" that, no, because I don't agree with that position!

The biggest dynamic of the Fantastic Four was that they fought with one another, the way a family fought with one another, but also came...

This is like saying that you can't ever know the ETA of going from Town A to Town B because some people run slower or faster, or that...

If a sizable portion of your player base is not playing the game to your settings....than yes that is a design flaw. For example, in...

Frankly, the claim that there always is such time pressure is what is ridiculous. "You cannot ever wait 8-16 hours. Period. Never. Oh...

Players will fight this tooth and nail - and they won't be wrong to do so. As a player I would fight it tooth and nail - or more likely...

...wha? Why on Earth would they think that's a good idea? It's clearly not meant to be an in-combat spell...any spell with a casting...

If characters don't know their abilities mechanically, wouldn't there be moments where the wizard tries to cast Fireball but fails to do...

What 4e tried to do was divide the "combat spells" and the "non-combat spells" into two different buckets. The combat spells were...

Sorry, I thought the sarcasm was obvious. My apologies.

I don't think I know your motives. That's why I asked. Unless you're referring to the two things I assumed you knew--that there is no...