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Of course you can design it, no one is saying otherwise. What you can’t do is make people like it.

I'm not saying it wasn't loved...nor that it was. I'm saying we don't have enough information to know what the choices were except...

Was it though? According to whom? Who gave out that information? What is it's source? If I made an Apple Pie and said everyone loved...

Would all that testing result in a game that would make WotC even more money, enough to compensate for the time lost to development...

Wonderful news: we can! Less wonderful news: It requires starting with clear and specific design goals, creating designs which attempt...

What I'm detecting in this thread is really two different schools of thought: Attrition is bad and we should refocus balance around one...

Remember back in the days of D&D Next, there was big talk about modularity? Well, with good rules modularity, you can go wide. But, with...

And that is design problem of a game that tries to do all. It's mediocre at best in many things. While people blasted 4e, it had clear...

This is the way. But really, I think that's the whole shelfware/collector thing that lots of TTRPG enthusiasts with impulse control...

That is ridiculously hyperbolic. If your players find an encounter too difficult there is no reason for it to "ruin a campaign" or even...

Exactly how strict the mechanics of various PC abilities are can will vary a lot depending on the ability and the game.

I think people are largely unaware of how many encounters they have, and how many rounds of combat. And it clearly is going to vary...

By the averages of 5e, most of your PCs have magic powers. Sounds like special effects to me.

Harry Potter and various other Quidditch players would beg to disagree.

Oh, yeah, I also have the full set of *Without Number games, which I pick up in the knowledge there's likely to be something I can take...