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I'm a bit lost on our disconnect. I don't have a problem with the concept of "some guy" (8 yrs old) to "doctor" (20 yr old), or an 8 yr old with magical dreams needing a dozen years to zap lightning and conjure force fields. I repeat, I'm squinting to make sense of the slow learning curve in...

It's a very exponential learning curve. Someone WAS slackin' in school, or their teacher was terrible. Maybe I lack imagination?

Firstly, X-Men went to school to learn academics too (I'd speculate that a significant portion of their curriculum was standard American school studies.) Secondly, if sorcerer PCs are like X-Men, then Storm spent years learning how to make a little rain cloud, then was suddenly calling down...

It's also the savages' fault that they didn't know how to correctly express their enjoyment of asymmetry. One biased reporter even went so far as to stage a fake protest scene and had the savages hold up signs and chant "We demand imbalance, we demand imbalance!" It was a complete fiasco for the...

Not just a matter of degree, but also a degree of concurrence. A lot of mechanics are pretty obviously metagame, and yet simultaneously induce verisimilitude (for many, this occurs upon reading of the rule, or at the very least during gameplay). The choice of a pool of uses vs a pool of...

Except all cookies are the same for lava. If you fall into lava, you die. No save. http://www.livescience.com/34031-person-fell-volcano.html

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It may also be difficult to differentiate between intense dislike for an edition vs giving off intense emotion when discussing said edition vs another's interpretation of said feeling. So if I was extremely passionate about "traditional" D&D, and 4E drew my ire, then I might dislike it to some...

This is what happens when a judgment label (like "irrational") is applied to a given reason, and then argued over. People have reasons to like or dislike 4E. Why is it important if it's rational or not? I think it seems important, because then you can draw a line between reasons that are...

I agree in principle. Some loss of coherency occurs when designers or gaming table consider deeply how characters might interact with magic in relatable plausible ways. (For example, if a DM rules Simulacrum as RAW and then asks why no NPC has created a clone army to rule the world.) In the case...

I love coherency in sci-fi and fantasy. D&D only offers me only an illusion of coherency. Why should my wizard be able to unlock a new spell after killing enough orcs (for xp) and not via hard study and research? In previous editions, why is it possible to gain a rank in swimming skill after a...

Mystra overheard a forum discussion about the possible exploit in the Simulacrum spell. Overnight, The Weave auto-updated to version 5.08 with a security patch. On the bright side, Elminister was really pissed when his clone armies suddenly melted, preventing him from being everywhere all the...

Extending that thought, a reason isn't technically required to invalidate the evil archmage clone army. NPCs and PCs just can't use simulacrum to create a clone army. Because if they could, then evil archmages could create an army of clones, and they'd already haven't they done so in the past...

Minor quibble: The latter point seems just as "boardgamey" as what your first point criticizes. It is arguably "boardgamey" if a ranger brings a pet to a firefight and the pet miraculously survives a fight that normal animals of its type would not. What fiction supports that? If you consider it...

Maybe it's a Leader in your game but objectively there are no roles in 5E :p

Is this the complete set? http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/resources/2008/12/22/pelinore.pdf

I'm amazed how much time we make to argue about geekbabble. It's a guilty pleasure for me, but I can only take it so far.

Maybe. Does the thief have more hit points? A useful scroll? A sword of dancing? Is Jane badly wounded? Is Jane occupied already? I think we both know that your highly circumstantial theoretical example isn't going to prove anything one way or another. You're trying to indicate that Thieves are...

In my experience, those labels were applied to the PC as roleplayed by the player, not applied to the class itself. Bob the Fighter was a "Meat Shield", but Jane the Fighter was a "Skirmisher". Nobody tried to tell me that Fighters are Meat Shields and Jane was going against the grain. However...

I believe Mearls indicated that they were drawing upon all editions of D&D (including 4E) to create 5E. I don't think it's in dispute that 5E is influenced by "traditional" D&D as well as elements of "4E mechanical design". The dispute is if (and how much) the 4E Role Philosophy exists in 5E. As...