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“Punish” = Restrict. It’s totally reasonable that each setting comes with its own set of restrictions to fit the fantasy. That just...

oh yeah, of course they are, 2024 is too abstract and too ‘random’ for me however. I can see the benefits too, a generic Rend lets you...

I never tracked torches or food either, but the current iteration just does not feel grounded to me. In their effort to file off any...

Quoted for cosmic truth. If I could thumbs up more than once I would... (y)(y)

I would like to see a little more respect for people who share his point of view (I agree with all of his points and more). I'm not an...

Uh, yeah. It's called capitalism. Well, more specifically, the big-corporate-ownership part. Besides, it was a way for them to stay...

Oh, I can see that. I see the game as intended to be challenging and don’t love the player-side optimization arms race, so I’m...

In what ways do you see DMs able to optimize in a similar way to players?

I think folks saying WotC can do a BG3 with minimal.effort are missing a major point: Larian is not a publicly traded company. They can...

Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game

so he liked 5e a lot, I assume he is therefore predisposed to also like 5.5, but somehow does not. Doesn’t that take something in 5.5...

Absolutely this. Take the berserker. You got a powerful boon (a third attack) at a tremendous cost (exhaustion). There was a...

Players will always outnumber DMs, so their feedback will always weigh heavier in surveys. They’ll not usually vote against PC empowerment.

5e2024 feels tired only in the way something designed by committee and focus tested to death can be. In my opinion, it isn’t a good...

I run a weekly D&D 2024 game and EVRY SESSION players find things about it that were bad choices by the design team, that make the game...