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EzekielRaiden reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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My point was that for tradition, simplicity, and lack of modular rules is that .. 5e only supported one subsystem: Vancian magic... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
you mean you are not using up the spell slot? No, that is even worse than what we have now, the boss used a LR and you just cast the...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Key problem being, as folks around here are so keen to point out, high-level games are pretty rare. If you've just raised the level of...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Circle Magic Concerns In "Heroes Of Faerun".When you start our by saying that all the examples have to be excluded without having specified that there were any limits before, it...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.All that does is kick the fan down the road. Either you've just made those spells worthless because they fail so often they aren't worth...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Ding ding ding ding. We have a winner, folks. And I can't even derive schadenfreude from it, because I have to endure this reality as...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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The tripod of 5e's design hindrances Adherence to Tradition Simplicity for new players Not using the subsystems Aka building the... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to Horwath's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Love.
This, one of the good ideas of 4E. EVERYTHING is attack. and for defenses to be good: AC: 10+dex+armor(or other ability) fort...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Then why do monsters do some things as attacks and other things as saves? Why this hybrid? If players like rolling, make them roll...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Just wanted to specifically call out that this actually gets to the heart of the matter that Mearls, unfortunately, doesn't actually...
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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 Love.
The full take is a lot more nuanced. Specifically: The problem isn't that control spells ruin 5e, it's that they specifically ruin...
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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 Like.
well, maybe if damage spells did actually decent damage, people would use CC spell less often...
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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..Absolutely. New take on Sorcerers that makes them ACTUALLY completely distinct from Wizards? That gives the origin of their magic a...