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Well said. 5e is simply joining the ranks of past editions. As time goes on, the shine wears off, and we start digging in to the warts...

The point of this thread is many DMs don't like their bosses being too easily beaten by PCs and not having to force higher CR or stats...

Nope. Draw Steel, Daggerheart, other RPGs and even 5.5e are just reinventing the fixes 4e introduced. Just not as ugly

It's was D&D. It just was with 10 fixes when the community was ready for 5 in 2008. In 2025 today, the community wanted all 10 of 4e...

It's complicated and I think blizzard has done a good job of both succinctly summarizing why as well as growing from a verbal faux pas...

Another thing to remember 5e was mostly playtested off a single adventure. IIRC The bosses were at the end of dungeons or solo...

Nope. The whole system wasn't a bad idea. It was just to drastic a shift. If 4e Essentials were the original idea, it would have been...

I doubt that. If 4e had open playtesting, it would look more like 4e Essentials.

The distinction is whether or not it's a attack from the spell which uses your spellcasting modifier or an attack from your weapon which...

I think it's a pretty natural upshot of combining resource-based play with GM authority over pacing. Originally, D&D was not designed...

That's why you would need four different types of rest to determine your four different amounts of time you typically might have of not...

That quote is from the 5.5e PHB. The distinction is there. Page 247 in the Bigby's Hand spell. And in Chill Touch. And in Chromatic...

Not even that. I think they should broaden Backgrounds and have all Backgrounds grant a Lore Skill and a Professional (Technique) Skill...

The points is that that different styles of play would assume different amounts of restfulness. Dungeon Play would only assume starting...

Really it depends. Is the attack from True Strike a spell attack or weapon attack