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EzekielRaiden
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Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition
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And I say a game which is designed to make this happen even a tenth of the time is a badly-designed game. Like it is literally...
Nov 1, 2025
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... did you read the first 9 words of that line and then stop? 'Cause that is what the rest of that paragraph is talking about.
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People think PCs need more power against bosses? Wow, that's a new one. He's not "complaining". He believes they are broken, from a...
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In the final game of one of my DMs epic years long campaign, we fought the lich who was behind most of the campaigns machination. We...
Nov 1, 2025
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You had two 20th-level wizards in your group, and that was the best they could do? No one cast vision ahead of time to try and figure...
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Yeeeeah. I think a shocking number of us have stories like that.
Nov 1, 2025
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There is a huge, huge, huge, huge, huge difference between throwing GMs to the wolves because you know every GM will make small tweaks...
Nov 1, 2025
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Plus, let us point out the rhetorical trickery employed here. (Note that I am arguing to the thread at large; I know you don't need to...
Oct 31, 2025
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Yeah, well, I'm built different, I guess! While you're happy to have one of your players sitting around on their cell phone or whatever...
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Yes exactly. Queen Bavmorda "Is that the extent of your power, little one?" It always reminds me of that scene which I have etched in...
Oct 31, 2025
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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...
Oct 31, 2025
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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...
Oct 31, 2025
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That's....not a selling point.
Oct 31, 2025
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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)...
Oct 31, 2025
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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...
Oct 31, 2025
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