Recent content by Tigris

This is easy. We know D&D 5e only had success because of media coverage, and in the end if something is famous and covered in media its quality does hardly matter. (I mean 5E encounter building was completly broken and it took 10 years for 5.5 to fix it with often 2 times XP budget for same...

We have the numbers from last year from a WotC talk. D&D in total sold each 29 million in the first and 2nd year of 5E. Which is absolutely god awfull, because 3.5 sold 25 at the end of its life and we know that 3, 3.5 and 4 had way stronger sales in the beginning. Mike Mearls LITERALLY had to...

I did not answer the poll because for me the poll question and the thread name are different. For me: 1. No there was no powercreep, as per powercreep definition, since later options were in general not more powerfull than original ones. 2. Yes because there where more options, naturally...

Sorry people who cant handle cards in a game, are not people I ever want to play a game with. Thats like going to eat with people who are unable to keep their sauce in their plate. Also you can literally put cards on or under the player sheet, if its made for this. And or replace parts of the...

Age matters a lot, depending on age people value your oppinion or not, because you are in the target audience or not.

Well D&D 4E literally had this ability for monsters. Roll dice on X you get ability again. Well the simple solution for cooldowns is to not have odds, but fixed cooldowns and a track. Several cardgames use this mechanic. You just have a time track, at the end of your turn / the next players...

Well I agree that this makes things easier to balance, but it also really limits the design space for classes. When we want to go 3.5 edition wild, then this is not really possible. Else you cant have the Book of 9 swords classes (which need to be per encounter) as well as the truenamer. Also...

Well I would argue this also has to do with what people value. And that what people express as vibes may not always be as well formulated. I think the "they do stuff similar like monks, so monks are less unique" part of the dancer is something one can understand. I agree the dancer bard will...

This is funny I was just yesterday thinking about making a thread (a bit different though) about ressources in RPG, I think this is an interesting topic! (Almost) Everything is a Ressource! So in general I think "ressources" is a bit broader as you mention it here, because coming from Trading...

Thats what I mentioned also. This would be cool, but is not possible in 5.5 since subclases are not at all standadized. Not only do differenr classes have differenr subclass levels, they also have hugely different power budgets. Ranger needs a lot ofnpower from the subclass especially st...

The assumption does not work though if classes have hugely different base mechanics, especially spellcasting. Thats why 3.5 with the tons of feats instead of subclasses was not in the sleightest balanced. Because strong classes will profit even more from good feats than weak classes. The...

The difference is subclasses from different class can have HUGELY different power budgets (for different levels). Like casters have just with full cadting and 1 class mechanic (like sorcery points) already used up most of their power budget. While (some) martial characters need subclasses to...

They literally changed the whole encounter building in 5e after the last playtest without testing into the absolute broken state 5e had changing from level to CR. (Yes it was broken, look at 5.5 because of no longer having the xp multiplier for having more than 1 monsters this means that many...

I agree with this. Most D&D fans know almost no other games, and some just want old outdated gamedesign back, while some believe some publishers that their illusion of choice gamedesign is brilliant and this points in opposite directions. On top of that WotC is also not that good with handling...

Thank you! Thats exactly also what I wanted to post. This was a lit more about situational feats than msking bad fests by choice...