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Blaming a corporation for trying to create a popular product that their audience likes is futile too though… Realistically the option...

yes, but if level 3 is already beyond my ‘comfort level’ then that does not leave much of a level range for me to work with ;) If...

that is fine, but it was clearly a goal for the new version and you cannot blame the designers for meeting the requirements

To my mind, 2e, 3e, 4e, and 5e are largely incompatible with each other, beyond themes and the like. That's the degree of separation I'm...

That is thing though. D&D would have to be significantly less popular, or less accommodating (looking at you 4e), for it to not persuade...

of course it is, this is about where the starting and end points are, not about there not being any growth

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didn’t want to quote the whole text. I don’t like quoting a hundred lines for a two line reply. I was referencing parts outside my quote...

the premise always was to release something compatible. I would have liked them to have gone farther with that, but I have no evidence...

yes, that was a response to the proposals by @GobHag not about 5e

The genius of the system is that all balance really just sits in the d20 Skill resolution math: magic, combat, diplomacy...

way too overpowered abilities and anime themed. The starting point was and that is beyond what I want at the top level, let alone the...

I would suggest a significant number never played the game attritionally. We started with 1e AD&D and BECMI and we pretty much never...

if they can pull that off and keep everything balanced, hat off to them

Shadowdark, and I don’t play that either, but yeah, we still have very different preferences, even if neither of us plays SD