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Be that as it may, if there had been extensive playtesting of 4e, "Does not feel like D&D" would surely have appeared as a significant...

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...

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

Yeah that. And people over exaggerate how useless high level AD&D fighters are.

if you are doing that why not just do away with them? You'll have to adjust classes that count on 5 min rests but it wouldn't be hard...

Sorta. The main combat abilities would be at-will and short rest. Long rest stuff would be rare. Power abilities would be "Extended...

What evidence do you have that WotC is at all interested in doing the sort of rigorous design and playtesting needed to make the game...

Also even the best open World sandbox videogames are limited in what they can allow you to do. Like, even in Baldurs Gate 3, you pretty...

To me it's also a matter of balancing an encounter without having to worry about the next four. I think you're confusing your terms...

Agreed. Moving away from the expectation of like some regular flow of consumable wands and scrolls being reasonably and readily...

All this talk of rest. To me the true source of the issues were the large quantity of your resources and the scaling of the usages of...

That bold bit seems a bit off the mark though. The push there is to ensure that the GM has no meaningful say other than railroading...

I am not quite sure what you mean here...

guess we will see, an evergreen strategy only is evergreen until it isn’t. It’s not like TSR / WotC knew that what they were doing would...

Abilities meant for use outside of combat can either be used at will or have some built-in limitation. For example, a Void Elementalist...