Recent content by EzekielRaiden

Fully agreed. A certain edition was pilloried for making everyone into spellcasters and making it so all classes played the same. 5e then actually DID make nearly everyone spellcasters....and actually DID make all classes play more or less the same. While I agree with the topline, I disagree...

Having had both experience and training in pedagogy? You'd be surprised how much the sensory components of acquiring information can affect whether, and how much, you retain that information. It is very easy to assume that one's own sensory experience is the same as anyone else's going through...

It would be a "old man shakes fist at cloud" type post if it were simply saying that digital media are bad solely because they are digital media. That is, thankfully, not at all the argument Mr. Tresca has presented to us. Instead, the argument being presented is that digital media can be...

I guess I don't have the problems you describe because I...have always needed to integrate every possible source as part of my learning. I listen. I read. I check wikis. I speak with others. I physically write things down with pens and paper. The only way I ever truly understand a thing is if...

Counterpoint: I tried to move on. It didn't work. I don't get to play games that aren't THE game in vogue, because I tried and it didn't work. I would not be half as salty as I am about 5e if it were as trivial as you imply to find good games of other systems. As it stands, I have three...

Okay. Still, 11 years when 1e lasted all of....13 years IF you decide that "there's literally only a monster manual, nothing else" counts as the game having launched. (For my part, I put 1e's launch at 1978, because at that point you had the rules to actually PLAY the game, even if you didn't...

...Wasn't 2e the longest-lived edition of them all? For the "AD&D" line, I mean.

5e was an entry point for a large number of people into the hobby. As a result, its prioritization of (player-facing) simplification was very useful. Now, however, I believe it is becoming a stumbling block. People are only "new" for a little while--perhaps a few years at most. 5e lacks for...

There are three problems. First, it's just not particularly fun to have constant, never-ending, never-fading time pressure. But if it isn't constant, any of the times it isn't around are the times you exploit the "70mwd" to its fullest. The irony being that, because short rests ARE such a large...

What you--very explicitly--said in this very thread, as I specifically quoted, was that people are finally realizing that spellcasters suck. No. Spellcasters do not suck. Wizards do not suck. You have this crusade championing the idea that non-spellcasters are somehow OP simply because they...

Ah damn. Somehow I thought there was already a 5.5e version of Redemption, so I thought I was sticking only to 5.5e options. Guess not. So, I guess replace Redemption with Ancients, given it has magic resist aura. Twilight, Eloquence, Watchers, and Peace do not exist yet for 5.5e, so I wasn't...

"Longer marathon type meta" functionally doesn't exist. I'm 100% certain that there are real GMs out there who actually do run things that way. I'm also 100% certain that such GMs are a vanishingly tiny minority. The vast, VAST majority of games simply do not run that long because it is not...

Zardnaar: Also Zardnaar: Sixty percent of your second party ARE FULL-CASTERS. And of the other two, one is ALSO a partial spellcaster. Of your first group, one is a full-caster, and one is nearly so, especially if you take certain things to make you more of a caster (like Pact of the Tome)...

Given I started something like 10, maybe even 20 campaigns in a single year (several years ago now) trying to find any table I could join that wouldn't fold before session 7-or-equivalent, I imagine it's one factor, but it's not the only one, nor is it overwhelming. Because I've never liked...

Exactly. As I have more than once said, D&D 5e is missing something like 11-12 class-fantasy archetypes from its roster (at maximum; some might dispute some and whittle it down to like 8-ish extras). Some of those archetypes are pretty fresh mechanically speaking, like Warlord, or are things...