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A small price to pay to eliminate "saminess"

Here's the core challenge of the rest model. The game, as designed, is based on challenging the party through resource attrition. If...

I remember on the forums apparently they admitted they didnt playtest past 10th level. They converted a lot of AD&D spells and...

I'm not sure it is possible to design for both. Because when you design for the former, you...genuinely stop caring about whether things...

That would probably work, I mentioned something similar above when I thought about how better D&D would be if it had a "three actions"...

I typed out a long rant, but decided to delete it. It's not really the place, and it's not like it matters what I think. I'd get some...

It's blasphemy, but I almost feel like something like Pathfinder 2e's "three action economy" would be a better fit for the game, though...

Ok, this could be problematic at least!

In some cases bonus actions allow something that is as good as an action or better. Monk flurry of blows for example at level 11. And...

So I initially ignored 5e, not getting into it until I was talked into public play (this was right around the time the Sword Coast guide...

It honestly does seem pretty crazy that it wasn't obvious at the time that the importance of action economy would dictate that any build...

This is probably what I should have done, just allow it until it causes problems. That would have solved a lot of issues I have with...

When I first started playing 5E, I let players convert bonus actions to actions. Didn't have any problem with it in our game.

honestly if my players asked if they could take a bonus action as an action i'd probably allow it so long as they're aware it's a house...

If using a Spiritual Weapon or Flaming Sphere twice is better than using your Action like a normal person, you have a realllllllly bad...