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My point is you're more likely to get Wizards to design more spells than to design a system where there's no bad saves. Because many of...
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Most strikers has attack powers that have movement and minor action movement powers. And the ones that didn't had pushed and slides so...
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Instead it had every Warrior attempting to gain out a full attack action against a monster. Either everybody stayed in one spot and...
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No. Letting the players break up their movement and attacks was one of the greatest changes 5e made. It’s more intuitive, it creates...
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Cough 4e did it. 5e copied.
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Thought I did 6 saves is better that 3 saves because if you actually design spells targeting all six saves, a spellcaster would have...
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Chicken or Egg 3.5 biggest issues were not theorycraft. The theorrycraft issues were just the most discussed. 3e's move + attack...
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D&D needs a huge amount of new spells (and a lot of spells cut or rewritten). There really should be a lot more banishment and binding...
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No. That could be easily ruined 5th edition and had it go down as a worse failure as 4th edition. 5th edition was the best selling RPG...
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No it's a better solution. Again the core problem is that 5th edition had these good ideas but it did not want to or did not attempt to...
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6 saves works just fine. People just too set in their ways to make Strength, Intelligence, and Charisma spells.
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I'm not saying any of the simplicity should be seen as improvement Personally I think "hard control" spells should be either 2 checks...
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Some. But fans will want Stunned, Paralyzed, Frightened, and Restrained to be similar to what that seem in real life. One or two could...
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It's two fold. The spells were simplified and thus removed the barriers and limitations D&D's powerful magic could run into. The...
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Mostly agree. Trouble is that the oversimplification broke a bunch of safeguards and outright removed most of the safety valves...
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