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The other 5e24 books are great, but the Monster Manual feels like it was put together by a web designer who forgot that books don't have hyperlinks. CR or type both make sense. Alphabetical does not.

A lot of this is just natural preference for the version of the thing that you first encountered. You see the same thing with music, fashion, candy flavors, and other subjective topics. This is magnified by the burden of learning new rulesets in TTRPGs - it's more of a hassle than grape gum...

Of course. Shaking our fists at the Most Ts isn't going to prolong the era of the horse and buggy.

My observation here is that there are fun features added or enhanced at the cost of more dice rolls. 5E14 Warding Flare for Light Cleric: 5 times per long rest, an extra dice is rolled as disadvantage on an attack roll. 5E24 Warding Flare: 5 x Short Rest charges, and each charge adds 3 dice...

I'd like to stay narrative-driven, so I would probably use levels 2 and 4 on order explorer and a focus spell instead of trying to make my character blessed by a god. And then get another focus spell at 6 I believe for my storming. Interestingly our cleric has since mused about going with...

Mending only works on a 1 foot break or tear so if your keep has issues that are larger in magnitude like a collapsed wall, pulverized door, or two foot gap, you're out of luck. It also works only on mechanical breaks or tears, not burned out elements, acid damage, etc. While I agree that RAW...

Interesting. My tables generally forget about guidance or are surprised by rolls before it can kick in. Mending makes sense conceptually. Can you elaborate on where it became game-breaking?

This feels like a homebrew thing, to be honest. If you want your world to be less magical than RAW, you're going to have to move away from RAW. Baseline rules aren't good for divergent experiences, whether that is a grimdark survival style of dungeon attrition or a low magic world where...

It's almost like DMs can alter encounter balance to hit their desired outcomes!

I'll be playing my first full campaign soon and I have decided to go with a little Kobold Storm Druid. Our tentative party is Obedience Champion, Thief Rogue, Cloistered Cleric, TBD Bard, and my Storm Druid. Looking at the lineup my guess is that I would want to focus on damage and crowd...

I'm a fellow new player, but I will impart that you will almost always be strong if you take the heal font. It's a large pool of free max level heals to play with.

Ahh thank you. I thought all worn or held items were immune.

Dumb question: How does light replace a torch when you cannot target anything worn or held?

To caveat, I'm not yet a DM and am currently playing two different rulesets (5E and PF2E). That said, my guess is that the demographic here are generally players who are adept at learning rules and excited to try new things. But there are also people who struggle to stay on top of one ruleset...

The system is sort of stuck straddling two types of players. As the default system, it will get a lot of people who might like the heroic roleplay of TTRPGs but not enjoy memorizing rules or using math. But other people are good at juggling rules and abilities and want to have a bunch of...