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I want to say I've seen 3E books with more "warpage" than that. Nothing a couple of days under the holy trinity wouldn't fix, at least.

D&D Basic edition (I can dream).

I prefer getting XP by doing things (of import). Combat, story completion, influencing, evading/surviving traps - that sort of thing...

Well, by 16th level it's very difficult to nail down exactly what the party has or doesn't - and that can be a huge swing on the...

While I certainly would avoid the ham-fisted hobbling of older editions (usually by denying or twisting the useage of spells), sometimes...

I seem to remember this first opening up when Complete Book of Humanoids showed up in 2E. But the real watershed moment seems to have...

I haven't really thought of adventuring party composition in this way before, but I think you nailed it! This is the perfect way to...

This isn't exactly new to 5th Edition. We started to see an increase in race/species types in both BECMI D&D and AD&D 2E back in the...

I agree that it can be kind of frustrating sometimes. But I fear it's just a question of play style clash. Some players want to play the...

Yes. D&D IS a teamwork game, and there's several cases already built in. Bardic Inspiration (if not the whole bard class). Guidance...

And meanwhile most of us struggle not to have the martial players Leroy Jenkins and mess up the perfect fireball formation.

In a discussion about why more players are not team-oriented optimizers, I don't think lack of effectiveness is the real reason. I'm far...

Only in the sense that it's difficult to find situations where multiple players are willing to do it, so it's less efficient to discuss...

I think it’s overblown. Magic resistance in 2e was a worse shutdown of character abilities to my mind. In 5e, those legendary...

Did you just re-invent the "Ecology of..." articles from Dragon magazine?