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EzekielRaiden reacted to I'm A Banana's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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The full take is a lot more nuanced. Specifically: The problem isn't that control spells ruin 5e, it's that they specifically ruin... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.And switch to defenses which spells attack, rather than saving throws that targets must roll. Not only is it simpler and easier to...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.He's correct about the end result (Legendary Resistance is a cheap trick shoved in to deal with design faults), and the initial impetus...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Horwath's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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well, maybe if damage spells did actually decent damage, people would use CC spell less often... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..Absolutely. New take on Sorcerers that makes them ACTUALLY completely distinct from Wizards? That gives the origin of their magic a...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data. with Like.
I'd point out a significant difference. I lost the argument. The changes went through regardless of whether I liked them or not...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..Yeah. Frankly, the fact that DDI + RPG sales were collectively over $7M when they hadn't published a single page of 4e content for over...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to pukunui's post in the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data. with Like.
I’m not surprised sales were bad in 2013. 4e had essentially been dead for several years by then, and 5e was still in the playtesting...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Circle Magic Concerns In "Heroes Of Faerun".Okay. I can only go by the rulebooks I read. The ones that repeatedly say things of the form "You can do X. Or you can not do X. You...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Circle Magic Concerns In "Heroes Of Faerun".That's the issue though. It was never "leaving room for different people to evaluate things differently". It was often described that...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Circle Magic Concerns In "Heroes Of Faerun".Given the loosey-goosey, "you're the GM, you figure it out" design of 5e, I doubt this will be even remotely an issue. 5e is never...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) If D&D 2024 Had Been Radically Different, Would You Have Stuck With 5E.And? What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? For goodness' sake. Does this reply, in any way, address anything about...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) If D&D 2024 Had Been Radically Different, Would You Have Stuck With 5E.I mean, the bigger reason to glance back and forth is that Pathfinder 1st edition is simply a copied version of D&D. You haven't "left...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) If D&D 2024 Had Been Radically Different, Would You Have Stuck With 5E.If it had been radically different from 5e, that would have been nothing but an improvement, so yeah, I'd have at least given it a shot...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Faerie Blue / Orange Morality Systems.I've had two groups in my Arabian Nights-flavored Dungeon World game, Jewel of the Desert, that I've intentionally given blue-and-orange...