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And-or at different levels. Long-term balance is just as useful as short-term balance; and all-the-time immediate balance is a fool's...

Oh, sure, no problem there. Great stuff. But the rules don't have to be designed around this premise. To a point; but it's only more...

I think the problem arises mostly when the story drives you to this and the alternative is to have meaningless combats as fillers i.e...

Agreed. The problem arises when you want there to be days with just one encounter, or maybe a couple, and not have them all be...

Can't say I've ever seen anything like this. IME old-school PCs are often laden with magic items...until they fail an AoE save and half...

As others have said, alignment is a useful shorthand for PC and NPC alike. Where I really like it, though, is with things like...

I find alignment useful for a general starting point on personality and viewpoint. For a lot of enemies it's a good starting point or...

I don't find arguments that "D&D isn't a metacurrency game" particularly compelling because of games like Savage Worlds. That game has a...

No, because they're at least vaguely reflected in the fiction as the limiting factor to what a caster can do each day. Metacurrency to...

Metacurrency is not my thing either. I can see it being a part of D&D, but I prefer it as an option or variant. The core rules should...

That's a reasonable guess, but it IMO would also be disappointing if that's where they went with it. Leave it as a nasty place full of...

Then they should have been honest from the beginning with their intentions, and corrected public perception as soon as they realized...

5e was advertised as having options that are modular. Maybe I'm over speaking but what you're witnessing, I believe, is much of that. I...

There's a lot of babies been thrown out with the bathwater as the editions have gone by; 6e provides the opportunity to go and retrieve...

I'm including things to cover everyone. ;) The point with these tools and dials is to pick and choose to cater for your table's...