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I dont mind d 5MWD. Not all of the time. Depends if PCs have to heal up sometimes whatever the narrative is going with. My players...

I very much believe that, yes. More than ever before in 5e (perhaps earlier).

Is the point of the question to say "players are the primary target for WotC's design"?

But one would expect the rules to be at least connected to the fiction. So when the characters are planning their attack, if one...

Talk if you can (or gesture, whatever), whether through persuasion, bargaining deception, intimidation, or seduction. Or stealth. Or...

Or they could've not made Dragonborn core to FR and instead kept them on the fringes. Or they could've revealed some effort by various...

I'm not ranting. But D&D is by far the most popular RPG. You think everyone playing 5.5 is doing so because it's their favorite RPG and...

So perhaps you see my point about posts that open the conversation rather than close it off.

I don't think anyone said they "talked their way through every encounter" in 1e. PCs have a variety of tools in their box, including...

Yup dropping them on top of existing material with little reason. Can't see anything going wrong there.

But again, if the players are happy with their cool powers and the GMs aren't, what do you do? Are players complaining about this? I see...

Always a good question conspicuously left out if these discussions often. Of course, perhaps many people simply don't care about it.

Unless the lower level spells suddenly start costing more to cast for no reason, I don't see how that does anything.

Especially since most worlds and settings have their enemies be a lot more primitive than the PCs. What can 5 random bandits do in 8 hours?

This means you need to specifically concoct enemies that would take such actions. Like some random encounter dire owlbear is not going...