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Yeah Instead of 4e Keywords, 2024 uses what I call "Assertive Capitalization"

The issue is how many want to play high level D&D if it worked . Epic fantasy, mythic fantasy, and high power fantasy are all very popular genres of fantasy. D&D's mechanics just doesn't work well to support them because we can't agree on how again is played after level 10 or so. But it's not...

No statistics. But there would not be so much talk about it if it were just 5%. Space saving. Unless you go full MINIs, Keywords, or 4e layouts, writing out the full abilities of interesting high level monster will take a lot of page space AKA fewer monsters. Will the community okay the...

The problem unfortunately is again 1) More than 5% of the fanbase want high level play, they just can't get there 2) 90% of the problems with high level play would still be in the level 1-10 book as the monsters you challenge level 9-10 monster would need access to 6-7th level spells or...

Nah. Between long buff times, summoned scout shenanigans, and DMs telegraphing big fights behind doors... it happened enough

I think it's less the denial the link between 4e and WOW and more denial the link of WOW and D&D. MMORPGs were more or less Online D&D with the IP scratched off and the DM automated. Many of the success and innovation of late90s/early00 MMOs were dealing with all the problems D&D & mid 90s...

I wonder.... Would having spells that have the duration of 1 Attack Or Movement Solved the Bonus Action problem. Meaning instead of casting Misty Step as a bonus action, it just replaces your movement with 30 ft of walking and a 30ft teleport. Or Healing word replaces one of your attacks...

Fans want to see (and fight) the 11-20 content. I keep saying. D&D and D&D clones need to grow up and grow some. Define what the PC equivalent of an Archmage is for a Pure Martial Warrior Pure Martial Skill monkey/Thief/Assassin Half Magical Warrior Define what the Monster equivalent of a...

I think an aspect D&D fights with is that parts of it that make D&D most fans that people do like are often married to parts of it that make D&D special that many current fans and most potential fans don't like. Then adding stuff people like from other media just muddies it further. Like...

The issue was that 5e was designed to appeal to older editions fans and those editions literally weren't designed to be played high level in any serious matter. Some races had level limits. Some classes drop off in features after certain levels. Level 7 was less a sweet spot and more where most...

Well MMOs were purely player side gaming So old school methods of giving DMs fun were ironed out since there are no DMs in MMORPGs. This is also why monsters and fights could be made more complex because there was no DM needed to burn brainpower running it.

Aggro is just an artificial method of replicating the fighting men and mercenaries holding the hallway why the wizards, thieves, and archers shoot from behind them. The issue is you can't just program the orc just not attack the wizards in the video game world.

No one ever says the complete chain. 4e was made like World of Warcraft But World of Warcraft was made to be like AD&D. Late 90 Early 00 MMOs were all trying to replicate D&D in 3D space.

If you think about it, that is EXACTLY what you'd expect would be on random treasure tables these days.😁

Seeing that both the oil of sharpness and a +3 weapon are both classified as very rare items and are on the same spots on both the arcana and armament treasure tables I think it was designed on purpose. I think the oil of sharpness was designed so that you can turn a family heirloom, inherited...

The issue is that the current champion doesn't match any full casters under the paradigm of anything but 6-8 encounters with 30 combat rounds and 2 short rests per long rest. There was no wiggle room created to offer Martials to have basic, advanced, and conplex options in the baseline. This...

Look at epic boom feats You have Basic ones like Combat Prowess Advanced ones like Fate Then you could mast some complex mess of an Epic Boon. The issue is that the D&D designers don't want to create complex martial stuff either out of fear of grognards or their own bias.

Yeah. Pick a baseline paradigm for a martial that matches a caster. Then have a basic, advanced, and expert version of every major step.

I don't think You understand what I'm calling a base standard. The base standard is the attack roll followed by the damage roll that all of those game systems all use. From there you can add on complexity at different amounts which fall on the same balance curve. The issue becomes when the...

You can have multiple levels of complexity in the same game. You just have to get over your biases. Many popular ideas are not in the base system of a game only because either the designers or the preferred audience of the designers had a bias that kept it from being included.