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This all makes sense, but how would some more mathematical balance diminish the feeling of reliability? In addition to being simple, Dueling also feels pretty reliable! Anyway, if they really mean ANY damage dice this time, the style will probably feel pretty good in play because there seems...

I feel like we tried this the first time around with smite dice, etc., and they soon clarified that they really did mean for it to suck.

People always say this, but I don't recall it in the module. In the very brief "Background" section, we get this: What little setting context there is makes it seem like the humanoids are the settler-colonists and the Keep guards the Realm from them. This would fit with their respective...

I, personally, don't want melee to be more powerful than ranged, but I also don't want the hand crossbow to be the superior weapon of war from melee to 120 feet (inclusive). From a game design perspective, at least with D&D, it seems a balance was typically sought between ranged and melee...

I'm tempted to say I've been running these all as a single Grand Campaign, and to some extent I have, but I found all three products--especially the adventures, in the first two cases--to be fairly disappointing, so this is mostly about me. ;) What I've done has gone pretty well, though, so I...

There's Vex, and then there's the interaction of CBE + SS + Archery + easy Advantage + multiple attacks to create a superior formula for both ranged and melee if you're interested in single-target DPR. I expect there's always going to be some optimal combo in a game like 5e, I'm just hoping it's...

Assuming you're responding to me, I very carefully attempted to communicate that I was making no claims about "objective" problems with 5e. These are personal pain points. I think some of them, at least, are broadly shared, but clearly there will be many, many players for whom none of them are...

Some random (personal, subjective!) observations on the thread: Based on post history, of which there is typically an extraordinary volume, the loudest critics don't actually play 5e. The people who don't like and don't play 5e are terribly disappointed in a version of 5e they don't actually...

It saved my first 5e group from a TPK in a dragon fight, but only because it was used in conjunction with tome of the stilled tongue. Once I got over my initial shock at the full implications of "cast as a bonus action," it was pretty damn cool.

I'd bet just about anything you understand exactly the distinction I'm making. ;)

I tried but can't bring myself to read through 40 pages of answers to a completely undefined question. What I've seen is inevitably a debate about what "edition" means rather than how the game has changed. My impression is that it's just adding new rails to the track that Xanathar's and...

The rogue in general looks fantastic.

It seems like there should be some (large) category between “hit” and “flop,” though I’d agree it isn’t doing franchise numbers in a modern context. Just another reason the modern context sucks. I’m just glad they made a good movie.

Yeah, where's that meme about what the DM imagines the campaign will be and what the players turn it into. :LOL:

You want a “true D&D movie” but you want it to be “high brow”? That’s certainly a take.

Oh, I agree. Gotta be an error.

The way it's written, you have a 25% chance of recalling a spell, regardless of spell level.

Thoughts: 1) People who have stated repeatedly they have no interest in 1D&D jumping in to argue incessantly about whether it's a new edition feels like threadcrapping. 2) New wildshape approach is good. Standardize the mechanics, free the fluff. Am I reading this correctly that you can speak...

There are no changes they could make to the license language that would prevent them from trying again next year. Instead of words, Wizards has taken an action that creates a powerful disincentive (combined with the PR bruises the company will wear for a while) to make another attempt next year...

I totally understood ORC as a rallying flag. I totally don't get how people are convinced that a nonexistent license, with undetermined content licensed under it, is the solution for "real open gaming." I think it would be pretty great if publishers big and small tossed the bespoke licenses in...