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How dare players put the higher numbers where the higher numbers would be useful.

This is great to see as an official option. My group did this eventually with 4e and suddenly we had people coming up with all kinds of race/class combos that they would have skilled otherwise dues to stats not lining up. Allowing ability mods that match with the desired class lets players focus...

I just don't like how spellcasters are divided up in general and the wizard is the worst offender. The necromancer is casting the same spells as the evoker and the oracle. The sorcerer is casting the same spells as the specialist wizard. The conjurer, the dragon sorcerer, the light cleric, the...

The groups I've been in have given up XP since early in the 4e days. As a DM or a player, it's much easier to let go of the micromanagement and decide what level of power the party is going to be at instead of asymmetrical accounting.

A normal familiar has a range of 100 feet for scouting. The warlock with an invocation has an invisibly flying imp, and can see through it's eyes no matter where it is on the same plane of existence. You could literally send your familiar to another kingdom and scout from home, or where ever...

Infinite cantrips, built-in short rest healing resources, tieflings + dragonborn as core, focuses/implements for casting, universal numerical bonus to everything tied to character level, et at, 5e gets a lot of 4e that I like. I would be have been alright with keeping the 3e style saving throws...

It's not necessarily a panacea for creative exploration as a broad concept, but I would love a thick book with all kinds of dungeon terrain, materials, traps, etc, with ready-to-go 5e mechanics. Maybe even a series of pre-constructed rooms with huge traps, mechanisms, and magic gimmicks that...

To be fair, I started with campaign 2 when it launched and that's where my initial impression is from. Campaign 1, on the other hand, starts when they're pretty far into the story (level 8ish maybe?). When they started from scratch, it was clear that everyone had a fleshed out backstory that...

I think it's also important that everyone realize that the ability to play a character as a great actor and the table-intention of investing in character development/plot are 2 different concepts. Most players certainly won't be great actors with great voice acting but the assumption that we're...

I'm getting to the end of campaign 1 and the players still haven't figured out how holding an action works. Including the time before they started streaming, that's probably 120 sessions of 5e where every week Matt has to explain to Liam how readying an action works like it's a new concept...

I wasn't referencing their ability to portray their characters exceptionally. Conceptually, the idea that players come up with backgrounds and play at a table where both the DM and other players are invested in those backgrounds is not a special exception that only exists on a streaming show...

Unless you're conflating a point someone else was making with anything I have been saying, how did I move any goalposts?

I think the point that they're actors would be stronger if it were some kind of scripted show or something edited, like Harmonquest. Sure, they're aware of the cameras and are ready to play a character but there really isn't anything conceptually or technically exceptional that they're doing...

My friend that I used to play with back home made a little booklet of tables that help you generate crazy magic items and put it on Amazon as The Book of Ten Trillion Things. You follow the rolling rules, roll randomly, and the adjectives build off each other until you've come up with some...

The table at Crit Role just runs differently than any table I've played at. The DM is interested in fleshing out EVERYONE's backstories instead of just running his plot. Each player is deeply invested in the story of their character AND everyone else's, instead of just killing stuff. In most of...

The issue isn't whether it's "thematic," or whatever, it's that you only get a whopping 3 attunement slots and the armblade is garbage as a mechanical option that prevents you from wearing that cloak of protection or wielding a flame tongue greatsword.

Think camp 1 seems easily like the most reasonable interpretation. They didn't create a new spell block for this feature, but it uses the exact same concentration system as spells.

When my main group moved to 4e, we eventually noticed that almost everyone we ever played with automatically fell into racial choices that always gave the "right" numbers for whatever class they wanted to play. Eventually, we decided that everyone could just pick any pair of +2 ability score...

It would be cool if this warlock could be a melee brute that compares to the hexblade but with different flavor but it looks like you need a DEEP multiclass to pull this off. 1 level of warlock is a great dip here, but to get the big damage, you need whopping 6 levels of warlock on top of class...

Turning all of your eldritch blasts into 2d10+Cha for a minimum of 3 combats a day is super strong, especially when you get into a higher level sorcerer combos. This should be one die per round, tops.