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Modern D&D is hardly even trying to be a medieval fantasy world anymore. More's the pity.

Or just a scenario. "Get this message to the King of Gondor across the mountain of giants" is very different depending on if you have...

Remove ability modifiers. Make use of the scores. Or if that's not workable remove the scores and just use modifiers. Combine to-hit...

Personally, I would prefer D&D to stay more on the "crunchy rules" side. Not because I think that's better, but because crunchy games...

Maybe reworking the concept of exhaustion to serve as a "stress" mechanic for those long term difficult processes like travel or even...

since it's a + thread, I will try to find my + sides of 4E, in my opinion that are worth keeping in some format. 1: at will...

I think the point is it is a story-driven encounter that occurs. In the example I gave (caravan guards) maybe it is the bandit attack...

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...

Weirdly, I've been told (primarily by redditors) that I'm failing at D&D if I didn't do 5-8 encounters per day.

Watch out Micah, this sounds awfully close to gatekeeping! Who is to say your idea of what is D&D is any better than anyone else?

Sure. but here, on EN World, a lot of people are talking about bringing back older stuff, from 3.x and 4E is TSR-isms. But you are...

For my own self, and I know many will find so much to criticize about this: 4e was a great structure presented badly. 5e actively tried...

It is if the edition is designed with strong but unstated expectations and many GMs act exactly counter to those expectations. Funny...

As always, your experience is so different from mine I cannot meaningfully interact with what you have described. This is literally the...

I think you could still get the essence of 4E without drastically changing the framework. 5E basically plays like 4E with all the...