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What's with 5e's obsession with God's and deities being the alpha and omega of everything? The giff can't just explore for the love of exploring, but a need to find the god that created them. They can't just favor firearms they need a divine connection to them...

4e released in 2008. 5e came out in 2014. That said, I'm in the same boat.

Number of spell prepped went from 1+Class level in Playtest packet 10 to Casting Stat Bonus +Class level in Release. At low levels, thats a massive increase in flexibility. In terms of spells per day, in Playtest packet 10, you never got more than 2 5th level spells, and only one each of 6-9th...

The thing that majorly changed the encounter math? Check out the Spells per Day in the Playtest Packet vs the One in the PHB, and the spell preparation rules. Casters got way more spells prepped at low level, and more spells per day at higher level. Anything cool got rolled back hard near the end.

Sadly, the same announcement for 4e was part of DnD insider, and vanished into ether with its deletion.

It is, but that has to do with thr growth of the marketplace more than anything else. After all, the 2nd best selling edition of DnD was 4e! Followed by 3.5, then 3e, ect.

Avandra 16 Bahamut 16 Corellon 13 Erathis 17 Gruumsh 11 Ioun 11+1=12 I loved my Avenger of Ioun. The Crusading Librarian who will bring back lost knowledge. Kord 18 Lolth 9-2=7 Spider Queen is boring Melora 16 Moradin 15 Pelor 15 Raven Queen 17 Sehanine 17 Tharizdun 10 Torog 15

The 4e Discord has a huge collection of handy tools for running 4e in various forms, inculding power builders for Roll20 and a Maptools mass automation program.

How is this about Healing in 5e Again?

The System works when you, as the players and the DM, actually want to engage with Rules and the System, becouse they transform the game state in new and interesting ways.

True. My players still, 10 years on, talk about the Run where everything went right. Let thr Player's have the easy win, but show off why their prep work made it easy.

D&D 5.5e: Now Everything is now from the Feywild.

They did it in a really good way, though. In a way that expands the setting, rather than compacting it to fit in an existing box. The Feywild is added as "Lands Within the Wind", isolated pockets of wonder and life, which have mostly been destroyed. Those that haven't have hidden away from the...

It's very rule heavy, with the only problem that about half the rules are not written down anywhere

Ah. I see now. You can actually do the same in 4e, though. You can have the same Level 6 ogre show up in 4e at level 1 and level 10, just the same as you do in 5e. With pretty much the exact same results of combat being a non-threatening slog that takes forever to resolve without really...

I'm deeply confused by this stance. My character at level 2 and level 6 have very different statblocks. Are they different people? If a villan flees, then seeks out the blessings of a dark God to become more powerful, well, that's going to change his stats, but he still the same person, right?

One of the reasons people scream bloody murder about the book of nine swords, was it Fighters did in fact get a save or die effect. It was described as one single perfect blow

Rewarding Not Resting: 4e had a really neat ideas about this: Rewarding Breaking Weapons and Armor Dark Sun 4e had some simple but cool rules there, to simulate how weapons of wood and bone are more fragile, but in a cool action movie version

The weird thing about the Bladesinger is that we already had the incredibly beloved Swordmage in 4e. While monks are an Ok class, they have issues with resource management, especially in the one deadly fight per paradigm that seems to dominate 5e actual play.

Not to mention the pointless class variants. The Bladesinger stands out as being pretty dire example, being a wizard that's trying to be a swordmage, but doing a terrible job of being a controller, striker, or defender.