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Minigiant reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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The problem now is D&D players have become impatient. The 5e Kernel is over a decade and a half old if you go though the Next play test... -
Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.It's mostly a money problem. D&D doesn't get the grace of the games get where people would allow for it to edit balance and errata...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Attack Defend Engage Disengage Use Magic Dash With free movement within. That's plenty of tactical options for a complex combat while...
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Minigiant reacted to mearls's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
The idea that players will optimize the fun out of a game is an old one. For a TTRPG, the design challenge comes in finding ways to give...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.4e's Hit/Defense scaling was too high. 5e's Save/DC was too slow because it handed out proficiency and expertise too infrequently...
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Minigiant reacted to Flying Toaster's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Interesting that the Civilization games came up in this conversation. Turn-based 4X strategy games for desktop PCs would not seem to...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.It's funny how the new UA's introduce the spirit Barbarian and cavalier fighter who both come with 4e style marks. Part of me always...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Actually the 4e scaling of to hit and defenses was pointless. Because 4e had better and more balanced scaling elsewhere (powers...
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Minigiant reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Was it pointless? Was it really? Because it seems to me that we're running into the precise problems caused by having a system that...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.I agree this shouldn't be a crazy lover bonus like in 4E or pf2. But just like PCS will take resilient con or warcaster in order to...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.But that require monsters to have big numbers and we can't have that. Small numbers good Big numbers bad "+10 to wisdom saving throws"...
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Minigiant reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
So legendary resistance is a bit of kludge, but at least it somewhat works. I think monsters generally having crap saves is a bigger...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.The flaw of small numbers. If everyone has small numbers but if only one side can easily add those small numbers together... 5e Spell...
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Minigiant reacted to Marc17's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Ya, in 1E&2E, saves just got better from 1st level on. So everybody should have saved except on sub 5 rolls without bonuses. Save or...
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Minigiant replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.I just wonder if instead of Legendary Resistance we have more different creatures A CR 20 SwordMaster Creature with Mod Save...