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No it really is, it's 2d8 per slot level versus Rogue's sneak attack which starts at 1d6 and can only be activated if you have an advantage on the attack roll. Lay on hands serves as a replacement for self sustain spells and paladins can also wear heavy armor, they are very, very good with...

Yeah because after all, if your epic break in to the nobleman's mansion comes down to hitting a roll of 10 or higher every time to beat the checks with your plus 5 bonus, you're gonna need to get 1/2x1/2x1/2x1/2x1/2 for just five checks!

I don't disagree but those class features do not, as far as I am aware, create a new mechanical system for resolving social interactions in a way that substantially changes how you play out social interactions except by augmenting number or quality of rolls. Not a problem for me, but maybe not...

Generally I think I enjoy 5E the best but there are a few quibbles I have with its design in terms of making monsters difficult to run at the table and making skill checks for complex tasks feel like a big chore. I have problems with pretty much every other edition I've read the books for but I...

Skill challenges and monster design took major steps backwards in 5E. The former because it got wrapped into an overly-basic system that leaves DMs to either say that it takes a single athletics check to scale a mountain or require incredible luck or godly plus 15 modifiers to consistently...

All tabaxi monks who only use unarmed strikes and you've got a full-on cat campaign

I like the idea of themed parties but I find that a lot of players really dislike having ANY shared backstory with their fellow party members which sucks because I think being a clan of "primitive" nomads would be cool. One player could be a barbarian, the other maybe a fighter, perhaps a druid...

Sure hope not! Back on topic, I think a really bad mechanic, not specific to any given RPG, but maybe more of a general complaint, is when there is a huge number of prerequisites for the use of a feature. This is obviously something there needs to be a good balance of though, because having...

Ah, I see. Probably won't change much to shuffle some wording around and will help with the icky racial language so why not! I'm guessing half elves and half orcs will just become options for humans or something.

Don't forget saving throws vs magic for those or making persuasion or deception checks, pretty sure Oofta has also stated that it's more of a thing where describing what you're saying is necessary and may affect a check but not bypass all the systems involving those scores.

Any word on why? Half-elves are certainly pretty overpowered mechanically speaking.

Are half-races confirmed to be removed from 5.5 or something?

Firmly agree but I think it comes down to your definition of role-playing game after a point. Is counter strike a computer role-playing game because I am playing the role of a terrorist trying to plant a bomb at a nuclear power plant? I mean, maybe, but with most things it eventually comes...

I like the system so far, it's definitely more simple than the one outlined in the encounter building section of the DM's guide but still runs with the default assumption I've seen written in the MM and DMG that for a party of four players, a monster of CR equivalent to their level would be a...

Adding onto this, I have a few narrative tools in mind when dealing with guns and then a few mechanical ones, I'll lay them out. 1.) Players can't always hit headshots even if they're aiming for them, enemies in DnD combat are usually assumed to be moving even when it's not their turn, the turn...

I think a lot of the quibbles people have with guns in a system like 5E DnD vanish if you change your expectations a little bit. You can have a hunting rifle that deals 1d10 piercing damage and that's completely fine if you keep in mind that a Commoner has 4 hp. I tend to imagine that dumping...

Of course, "bad mechanics" is very subjective and depends both upon what you're modeling and the intended tone of the system, but I think your post was definitely in the spirit of the thread!

Unfortunately if I'm not allowed to play a dragonborn I'm beating the DM over the head with a brick

Your mileage may vary of course!

One game I would nominate for being very bad not because it is necessarily mechanically poor but because of what its theme is would be the Wendy's promotional RPG Feast of Legends, which is essentially 5E with a lot of rules removed, the serial numbers filed off, and product placement stuck in...