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That's not my experience. Advancement in D&D has a significant arithmetic component. It's always possible to compress or expand the...
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I've GMed a lot of, and played a bit of, high level FRPGing - AD&D, Rolemaster, 4e D&D. 4e D&D worked well, and to me it seemed pretty...
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I mean, part of why folks said that is because, all through the playtest, that was in fact the official line. That it had to be 6-8...
Nov 24, 2025
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This is distinctly what 5e was designed to not do. And it was its biggest issue. 5e with design so that you can use goblins all the way...
Nov 24, 2025
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I wish people would just imagine seeing this in a movie, or reading it in a book...there's no way they'd conclude "Well, the reason he's...
Nov 24, 2025
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No one complains about the chance of rolling a 1 increasing with number of attacks. However I can assure you that there are complaints...
Nov 24, 2025
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Yeah, but with all the bonuses 5e PCs can stack having non-attunement +1/2/3 items seem very unnecessary.
Nov 24, 2025
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5e had a missed opportunity by not scrapping the + magic weapons and armour which broke Bounded Accuracy and instead focusing on...
Nov 24, 2025
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. It describes how they are a catch 22 no win tool that ultimately forces the GM to choose between what foundational level system...
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This is exactly it. I think they didn’t want to hear about martials complaining that casters can do stuff they can’t. Furies become...
Nov 21, 2025
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Assuming I am remembering the same video from Matt, part of it is also MCDM, right now, doesn't seem super interested in another...
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One of the hardest things to do sometimes in gaming is transitioning from one game to another that is very similar but different in...
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4th Ed which was mainly two page spread for encounters was really designed to make things easier for the DM. There were complaints at...
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"Let us in, you little bastard. or we'll kill you! And that's not the worst part! After we kill you. we'll do things to your corpse...
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I completely agree that idea of next to no magic items in 5E was stupid from the start, it's even worse as there is no replacement for...
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