Recent content by Maxperson

And the wizard's low hit points to the high damage breath weapon.

I think they just wanted to do something new. 3e had the very popular Forgotten Realms, so they didn't need a new setting due to the unpopularity(if that's even the case) of Greyhawk.

Greyhawk was 3e/3.5e's default setting in the same way The Forgotten Realms is 5e's. There's very little in the way of support for those settings in the core books. So little that there really is no setting to default to.

Yeah. If you're new you should start small, dealing with much smaller groups and power structures. The first time I picked up the DMG to try my hand at DMing I would have been overwhelmed by all of those major areas and power structures.

You have 6 major groups there and 10 PHB races. Which ones suffer to make place for Dragonborn and Goliaths?

It can be very disrupting to the game and campaign. Unbalanced things can(and have) fallen into PC hands, major NPCs have been killed or worse, etc. The costs are the same. We can suffer in-fiction disruption and loss, and we can be have negative emotions occur in response to what happened...

Your players are going to end up in a lot better shape than my players.

It's not that black and white. I think that it's the player who is predominantly on the short end of the stick with it, but there have been numerous occasions where I have described the fiction, whether it be a trap or something else, where the players have come up with something I didn't think...

I don't know that I would go that far. Pretty much everything, mechanical or not, is divisive. I'm not sure one is more than the other.

Because it's a fool's errand to even try. The base is too fractured on everything, like people are on every topic.

prove it.

A lot of us don't care what the equipment package of a game is, or who the game might choose to love. That's the game's business.

Even with something like the OGL debacle, they could have stuck to their guns and kept it. They'd have kept the lion's share of their customers, who were either unaware as most don't come online to discuss/argue the game or don't care. They caved because the numbers they would have lost would...

The base is very fractured. Even those who play 5.5e don't all agree on a single feel for it. You can't even get anywhere close to every 5.5e player on this site to agree with you about the vibe(subjective feel) of the game or if it needs a dedicated setting, let alone give a single unified...

Countercounterargument. There is no customer base definition. The base is way to fractured on what it thinks and perceives for there to be any single definition put forth by it. We can't even get 5 people here on the site to agree on definitions. That leaves only WotC to set a definition.