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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.PCs getting taken out of action by all-or-nothing control spells was never any fun, but at least in early editions like B/X or AD&D the... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
Wow.
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... -
Flying Toaster reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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"Fun" is subjective though. There is a certain class of player who enjoys finding exploits and, well, exploiting them. Out of morbid... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
But self nerfing is no fun either! Beating a challenging fight that was challenging only because you intentionally played stupidly just...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
No, that's exactly the transference that's being pointed out. You gave the player a problem to solve and tools to solve it, if the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I guess during session zero for my next campaign, I'll just ask the players if they want "epic boss battles" or not, because if they do...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
RIGHT?! Which is why Mearls is saying this kinda stuff. He's away from the constraints of WotC and is doing what he can. Not always...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Earliest attribution (in the usual slightly different form) seems to be Soren Johnson, a different designer working on Civilization. Sid...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Mustrum_Ridcully's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Kinda, but I think it's really a warning aimed at game designers. Don't design your game so that the best strategies to play are unfun...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Horwath's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
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Flying Toaster reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
So whilst players might need to avoid broken charop combo builds, this is not what we are discussing here. We are talking about using...
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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.
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...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Horwath's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
for a NPC yes, for PCs, not even close. Hard CCs on PCs that last more than a round are complete "insert swear word here". we played...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
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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Flying Toaster reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
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...