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Lucas Yew reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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I think this gets to the heart of the matter, and shows why the 5E game works with fairly little friction if the latter approach is used. -
Lucas Yew reacted to SpellObjectEnthusiast's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
The Incapacitation tag is working as intended then. You simply aren't meant to be able to use control effects against higher level foes.
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Lucas Yew reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
Wow.
Control beats mid-range. Aggro beats control. Mid-range beats aggro. Paper-rock-scissors. (Combo mostly plays solitaire until one turn... -
Lucas Yew reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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Ding ding ding ding. We have a winner, folks. And I can't even derive schadenfreude from it, because I have to endure this reality as... -
Lucas Yew reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
Haha.
The tripod of 5e's design hindrances Adherence to Tradition Simplicity for new players Not using the subsystems Aka building the... -
Lucas Yew reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Sad.
Its a consequence of crap saves combined with buckets of hp.
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Lucas Yew reacted to Retros_x's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
No please not. Let damage dealing go, spell casters don't need to be better at martials in everything. Spell effects should be...
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Lucas Yew reacted to The Sigil's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Just have to echo that this is perhaps the most elegant expression of the tension this old-school DM finds himself in with new-school...
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Lucas Yew reacted to I'm A Banana's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
The full take is a lot more nuanced. Specifically: The problem isn't that control spells ruin 5e, it's that they specifically ruin...
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Lucas Yew reacted to mearls's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Wow, that is the most elegant expression I've ever seen of the core tension in 5e. Having played a lot of AD&D and B/X (via OSE) in the...
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Lucas Yew reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I was going to comment about this. 5e's Sleep was excellent design, and it bothered me that it wasn't used more. I was pretty bummed...
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Lucas Yew reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Yeah it was when my fighter player pointed out he had all these new options. But he was crap comparatively vs his 2E one. With worse...
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Lucas Yew reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Hey I was a 3E player and I wanted fixed saves in a fixed 3.5. Hell started houseruling it near the end.
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Lucas Yew reacted to Mort's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Interesting take. Of course, there are plenty of control spells (5e sleep, Spike growth, wall of Force etc.) that don't have a save...
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Lucas Yew reacted to THEMNGMNT's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Okay, that's not exactly what @mearls said. But here's an excerpt from the latest post on his Patreon. Legendary resistance is a cheap...