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tetrasodium reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with
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I’d be fine with iteration if one iteration didn’t take 10 years and actually got us somewhere. As it stands that means we never really... -
tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Yes it very much would, but the design of 5e walls off too many required mechanical rules subsystems from relevance and new players are...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Has Tiny Hut actually affected your game? Or has it otherwise mattered?.There are three basic solutions mentioned here. The first is throwing "things"to completely bury the hut and moving on. Second is...
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tetrasodium reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General Has Tiny Hut actually affected your game? Or has it otherwise mattered? with
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I'm still not sure what stops the party from going "oh look, we are being attacked", fight the monsters, and then recast Tiny Hut and go... -
tetrasodium 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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tetrasodium 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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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Melissa shows how badly LTH misses the mark on wind protection.I mentioned & linked to the old Tucker's kobolds dragon mag bit. It seems like they very much would absolutely fall under "just have...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.Multistage monsters got noted earlier . Overall they are a depressingly blunt and terrible kludge of a bandaid trying to paper over the...
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tetrasodium reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
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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tetrasodium reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
Yes, it was pointless in the degree it happened and counterproductive as as monsters very quickly scaled past usability an they needed...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.No, although I could have been more clear. Too often this particular tangent gets framed as a zero sum caricatureized matter of "doing...
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tetrasodium reacted to Teemu's post in the thread D&D General Has Tiny Hut actually affected your game? Or has it otherwise mattered? with Like.
I've had it used by both a wizard and a bard in two separate 5e (2014) games to very good effect. The real power of the spell as a...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Melissa shows how badly LTH misses the mark on wind protection.I'd hate to put words in your mouth or make assumptions on your gm style but if you elaborate on they bold bit and we can discuss how it...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition.You aren't describing a net improvement though because you leave out the lost good and dub the mechanical hook for that good as some...
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tetrasodium 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...