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Best way to manage that is tactics. Focus fire is your friend, though the Defenders and Controllers will do a lot to prevent it from ever happening. It's harder to do at high levels, but PCs are harder to endanger in almost every way at high levels.

In other words, the entire combat day model doesn't work for me, and there isn't a RAW/system option to really tweak it. A culture I don't particularly ascribe to. I knew there was something I was leaving out. Not everybody likes playing full casters, I've seen many a table where nobody does...

If people are doing 900-1100 damage Novas they are using rules exploits that have been patched by errata and no longer kosher, or cheating. An optimized Striker might manage 200-300 depending on level using a combination of action points and daily powers, assuming they don't miss, but can only...

That randomness I'm coming to discover is a result of Bounded Accuracy endeavoring to keep the probability of success around 50% combined with fewer rolls to resolve a given activity and few or expensive means to mitigate randomness. In your example of being hit in 4E, while 4E effectively used...

The more you describe your experience, the more I believe your experiences are due to a lack of system mastery and tactical acumen than the system. I ran epic-tier Living Forgotten Realms unmodified for a max optimized table, and while it often wasn't that big of a challenge I was able to have...

The math framework in any RPG is really too big to explain in a forum post, and that applies to 5E. What is constraining about it is that it doesn't do what I want it to do, yet things are interconnected to the point where it's hard to change things without messing other things up. For me, with...

To me it's just a matter of taste. 5E does it this way, 3E and 4E did it where you got both and didn't have to choose one or the other. Having played all three, I liked 3E's and 4E's way much better. I liked them better to the degree where 5E's system bothers me. There isn't any more to it than...

It not only has less of a mathematical framework than 4E, it has less of a mathematical framework than 3E(3E's math just tended not to add up most of the time). The difference is that I never found it necessary or desirable to make massive changes to 4E. 3E I felt the need and was fighting the...

I found AD&D to be the most hackable D&D. It felt absolutely necessary to hack it, and hacking it rarely had unintended consequences down the road. 3E was a mess and seemed to demand hacking, but I was never satisfied with the results. There were always unintended consequences that made an even...

I don't entirely agree here. Over the past two editions D&D has become more of a specific game than it ever had been in the past. Early D&D/AD&D wasn't really a specific sort of game because the rules/system was very vague and often incomplete, leading to a lot of variation from table to table...

That being said, during the playtest I found a lot of people/comments/circumstances where excluding people/styles they didn't like was more important than positive support for what they wanted.

Because it wasn't boring, trivial, or over too fast like 5E tends to be. The problem is there in the mechanics either way. Some people being naive or choosing to ignore it doesn't make it not there.

It could, but I never saw it impact play to the point where I'd call it a problem. The main problem I encountered in 4E was grind, where combat went on for too long in a boring manner. There were two basic choices, you could either make fun encounters that were fast or fun encounters that were...

What I'm talking about specifically is full casters(Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard) starting to overshadow the other classes at higher levels. I have been told by a wide variety of people that this is a definite thing that happens in 5E, though not to the extent of AD&D or 3E, and it's...

This is the list in question Most of this list is either situational or requires burning daily resources. I look at this list and don't see how anyone is getting advantage most of the time unless they are something like a darkness monk, barbarian, or spamming stealth(and spamming stealth is...

You have me a bit curious and confused with your description here of 4E. We played highly optimized PCs, by RAW, against monsters straight out of the MMs, generally stayed within the level+1 to level+4 range, and never encountered anything like abuse of the action economy or broken...

1. Pick something and stick with it. If you want to deal damage, build for damage. If you want to tank, build for defense. If you want to heal/support, build for that. 5E tends to be fairly unfocused, so you if you don't focus you tend to end up bad at everything. 2. Between stat generation and...

You gotta understand that what both of us are talking about here a lot of the time are matters of taste. Matters of taste aren't right or wrong. I found with 4E you didn't need to keep up with player options. The game generally just worked, and when it (rarely)broke it broke on the side of...

There really isn't. I'd have to check what 3E or 3.5E looked like 1.5 years in, but for 4E you would have PHB 2, FRPG, EPG, Martial Power, Arcane Power, Divine Power, Primal Power, and 18 issues of Dragon. Beyond the amount of material, there is the amount of customization choices a single PC...

1. What things weren't put in? 2. Unbalanced things don't improve story. They aren't connected. 3. You are implying that balance was a bad thing because it prevented things being in 4E, though I'm not sure what things you find missing. It might be unintentional, but your statements come...