Thunderball a 001, jumping to a 006 for You only live twice? You will have to have negative 00s with this kind of scaling.
Spy Who Loved Me might still get to 007. So very very Bond.
Edit and ninjaed…but now I know why you liked you only twice so much.
Of course the OP is right. Do what you like.
But I don’t think this site, and certainly not these boards, would exist if they did give not us fans a place to complain. We would do that even if the RPG business was well run, and frequently it is not.
5.0 monster stats, especially from the MM, tended to be low (and their special properties usually did not fully compensate). HP are still low, though they are higher at high levels than in 2014. AC is same or 1 higher than 2014 guidance and practice.Attack is 1, 2, then 3 higher then guidance...
Having just posted that, it may also reflect the size of the market. That strategy of supporting multiple not really compatible with each other settings may now make sense with a much larger player base.
And Greyhawk in the DMG.
It’s probably just the desire to keep content evergreen, Having released so many adventure books and already dumping a bunch of rules material through the revised core books, they needed to come up with something else that they hadn’t overdone.
So 2024 is more like 4e. Now let the denials begin continue.
Also, our columnist really buried the question on the humanoids. He kind of but did not really ask it.
5e does not play like 3e. Except to the extent that it plays like any other version of D&D. Skills, spell casting, combat, modifiers and (all those) subsystems, npcs, assumptions about magic items and treasure, all very different.
And you’re certainly wrong on “your someone”. I’m not.