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Flying Toaster reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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(y) Yeah. We didn't like 3e's system of confirmation as it stood, either. So if you rolled a 20 and didn't confirm, you did max damage... -
Flying Toaster reacted to UngainlyTitan's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
There is never going to be a published setting so detailed that there is no stuff to make up or not have gaps where stuff needs to be...
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Flying Toaster reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I mean, part of why folks said that is because, all through the playtest, that was in fact the official line. That it had to be 6-8...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Personally I think one of the ways to fix armor is is to have more variables and make them matter. If I redid armor here are my...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
You can drop an entire community of dragonborn into any spot in Greyhawk you want. I can drop them into the Greyhawk City if I want to...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
But that's the same situation Gnome or Halflings have been in for Greyhawk itebtire existence. There is no "deep connection" for them...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
Just to add to this. Any later element, particularly 2024 D&D elements you add to Greyhawk typically don't have enough depth in the...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Slightly off-topic, but I think armor was an issue even back in the TSR days. When I was rolling up AD&D characters we mostly did...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.The BECMI bell curve ranging from -3 to +3 was very clean design, easy to learn, and did not require rolling fistfuls of dice in order...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Im leaning towards capped at 18 and used the old BECMI stats. Hell maybe 2d6 for reaction checks
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Once again we see the essential conflict over what D&D is and should be. In this thread we have posters saying that D&D is a high...
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Flying Toaster reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
One of 5e's greatest problems is overcorrection. (Which, in fairness, one can argue that that was a great problem of 4e as well. Not of...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
I think the issue was not that players couldn't describe where they are from but that players couldn't tie their race or class into...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
This is distinctly what 5e was designed to not do. And it was its biggest issue. 5e with design so that you can use goblins all the way...
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Unfortunately it was true in my D&D group back-in-the-day. They were and still are the D&D is serious business types and they consider...