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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Eric V's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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I think it's possible that a lot of these issues are addressed by putting hp thresholds on spells...matches a lot of narratives as well... -
Pvt. Winslow reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
This reads a lot like "6 is better than 3 if d&d d&d 5e had done something hypothetical that it didn't do and that hypothetical did not...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
3.5's move and attack did not have individual players spending multiple minutes dragging out their attack xhain in drips and drabs...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I suspect most editons end around then. I suspect 3.5 big issues were mostly theory craft. The cure was worse than the problem.
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I quite like the idea of going back to 4e's Fortitude, Reflex and Will. Pairs up "popular" saves with "rarer" ones. Fortitude...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Mustrum_Ridcully's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I don't agree that they should stick with 6 saves. I think having so many is particularly a reason why it is so difficult to target them...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I can definitely see that modular means different things to different folks. For me modular meant that each major chunk of the game was...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Eric V's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
It's really not the same. That's an inference YOU are making; it's certainly not what Minigiant said.
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to mearls's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
I'm not sure if those specific rules would've been featured, but my plan (though obviously things changed when I took a job working on...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"? with Like.
Most of my action declarations are because that's what the character would do. Like, that's playing a role, right? But then, most of...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Guest 4770's post in the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"? with Like.
Great Roleplaying The LotR has absolutely no examples of scared hobbits stepping up. Im sure there were no earlier opportunities to...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Richards's post in the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"? with Like.
I once played a cowardly PC, and designed him that way on purpose, because my son was building a Skylanders-based D&D game to introduce...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to DammitVictor's post in the thread D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"? with Like.
As a much wiser man once told me, the difference between a villain and a supervillain is presentation.
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to bloodtide's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) How To Make High Level 5E Work.For You + with Like.
A lot of my High Level Play Rules are used at all levels 1-20. Character Death. The Big One as always. Character death is amazing at...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to TheSword's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) How To Make High Level 5E Work.For You + with Like.
Yeah the two most unbalancing things in the game are ridiculous ACs and ridiculous spell/abilities DCs. Both trivialize the game to one...