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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Two wizard homebrew mechanics: any unintended consequences?.The main problem with the proposed Savant feature is not that it is thematic, it's that it will push players even more to focus on the... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Sounds like the condition track, no? If so, perhaps we could even make it have either 3 or 5 steps as desired for any particular...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.That's....not a selling point.
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Enkhidu's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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I've done the same, though in my case the "something" was hit points (as in "take damage equal to 5*level of the spell" and the like)... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Wanted to come back to this. 4e did not "strip them out for the most part". A lot of the things folks want are in there. They've just...
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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 Like.
My point was that for tradition, simplicity, and lack of modular rules is that .. 5e only supported one subsystem: Vancian magic...
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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...