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All this talk of rest. To me the true source of the issues were the large quantity of your resources and the scaling of the usages of...

Because it takes a wizard! Level 3 Spell for 3.5e Flame Arrow: Arrows deal +1d6 fire damage.

I still say the game should have been designed around PCs all being able to go 100% for 3 encounters. Then design a floor of 50% that if...

It's not hard to make expertise a static bonus and alter a few of those others a bit.

Bounded accuracy is a good thing, but I just think they over bounded it. In my opinion, going to +10 at 20th level would have been...

TL;DR: Mearls and other design team members were doing a game (recorded for a livestream or podcast, can't remember which) as a promo...

The issue is that until about 2020 the prevailing wisdom was "I don't need no more stinking rules I know how to run this game". So...

What I was saying is that you can have a system where you have 100% of your offense for three fights guaranteed. However if you would...

The bolded part. For every Major RPG.

The problem is bounded accuracy. What do I mean by that? I mean they wanted to have bounded accuracy. They demanded it. In some form...

It's less that they don't do testing is that the zeitgeist and mentality of D&D is that it is "an art and not a science" and that...

I don't think that's true. One group wants it to be hard to recover to 100% if you have 6 encounters One group wants you to have 100%...

I fear that many designers are too afraid to kill sacred cows, forge new paradigms, and upset vocal subcommunities to create strong...

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

Can't we make a game that focuses on providing both experiences?