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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.That was often my strategy as well, with a healthy dose of milling so I could run the opponent out of cards. Didn't work very often... -
Lanefan reacted to guachi's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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I had a Red/White/Blue deck back in the day full of multi-lands and every counter for a specific type of card that you could cast -... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.I'm fine with spells that break the combat system and do things other than straight h.p. damage, even if-when those spells become I-win...
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Lanefan reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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IMO, they deliberately design away from that unfun playstyle now. -
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It's the same problem as Magic: The Gathering. It's often a better play to nullify your opponent than to defeat them quickly (unless you...
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Lanefan reacted to billd91's post in the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data. with Like.
Good point. The delve might be OK for complicated encounters either because of the NPCs/Monsters involved, because of the setting, or...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..And in case someone hasn't already mentioned this, those things are themselves largely recycled from 1e (stronghold rules) and 2e (most...
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Lanefan reacted to SlyFlourish's post in the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data. with Like.
Having spent time with D&D before the delve format, than with the delve format at the end of 3e and throughout 4e, and now without it...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..Take cars. They achieved their basic form and function by around 1920 if not sooner, and from then until about 2005 all we saw were...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..Or (numbers made up as I can't be arsed to haul out the MM right now): "Dire apes (3), HD 5, att. 2 (fist-fist), dmg. 2d6-2d6, SA rend...
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Lanefan reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data. with Like.
I, for one, liked the Delve format for what it was. The main issue was that it took up a lot of space, one or two pages per encounter...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..Be careful with the "us" and "we" here - I too would love to see a new D&D edition, but I suspect the new version I'd like to see would...
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Lanefan reacted to Dire Bare's post in the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data. with Like.
Innovation does not always equate to improvement. Innovations, good or bad, don't always "stick". You may or may not like the...
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Lanefan reacted to darjr's post in the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data. with Like.
Being one of them, I do!
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data..I don't think the delve format was rejected as being non-innovative. Instead, it was rejected because it failed in achieving its goal...