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I don't wholly disagree, except this attitude continues the romanticism of a glorious 1-20 campaign that lasts 3-4 years and everyone is deeply invested in their characters and it's forever memorable and epic and... A romantic fantasy that many players will never see. I friggin hate the...

Honestly I think it does help to say it repeatedly, because it seems easily confused or forgotten.

Absolutely they were sanded down/removed, but the use of "very quickly" is pretty relative here. The most changes happened with Wrath of the Lich King, which was about 4 years after WoW's release.

👀 OK well, gonna give that a watch.

The A5E fighter is powerful (especially if you know which maneuvers to take), buuut it hardly compares to the monster that is the Berserker. I don't know who felt the need to take barbarian, A5E-ify it, and then crank the knob waaay past 11.

I both respect and boggle at your use of Light Mode. Considering that HP and damage is abstract anyway, yeah it makes sense that a warrior could end up doing more than 1d6 with a shortsword. Perhaps 2d6! BUT one must question designer intent behind More Attacks vs More Damage: do we get More...

I don't have a problem with the spirit of the statement, but the wording makes it sounds like the games didn't work at all at high level, ya know? They do work at high level. I remember high level 3e as a player, it was ... "fine." It was cool to have your build/power/etc cranked out, but boring...

Yes, 4e largely resolved the issue. It failed for many other reasons.. BUT having "solved" the issue by bringing balance, it turns out a lot of folk didn't love that because it made everything more similar (to make an example: a caster and a martial could both potentially impose difficult...

I'm guessing this is the new 5e24 Sleep?

Apologies for the misunderstanding, it was late and I think I was addressing points made by the person you were replying to, but you weren't really refuting their points in the way I thought you were.

Ok I guess it's just agree to disagree- when someone says "naturally" I take their meaning as "not having to artificially inflate the number of encounters per day to make it so the party is challenged." If I have a city campaign, I COULD have the party: accosted by thieves, have to catch a...

The creature can make a perception check tells me that it requires an action like any other check of this kind during combat... I guess "something doesn't seem right, do you want to proceed or make a perception check" etc. but you're right it's not an easy call. I wonder if it's been asked...

I like the changes to a couple spells like Chromatic Orb. I like that the MM24 monsters are more dangerous. The bastion rules inspired me to take a crack at a Birthright-style campaign, which has been fun so far. I primarily use Level Up A5E but I'll be taking some stuff like the above from...

I'll say it every thread where it's relevant: decouple long rests from sleep. Say it'll take two days, or a week, or whatever... but that's the biggest bang-for-your-buck improvement as a GM if you have a problem with one or two combats per day. My standing long rest time is 2 uninterrupted...

Well first, we have to find out what's "interesting" to you? Do you have examples of interesting items from other games?

I mean, this depends on what kind of heartbreaker you're looking at making right? If it's fantasy/DnD, I'd add Dungeon Crawl Classics and 13th Age to that list.

I think DnD has too many sacred cows to try that again after their attempt with 4e. It can, and has, been done in plenty of other games- but if folks want it from WotC, I don't see them rocking the boat enough to make such a radical shift (again). Ofc, they did try something completely different...

I appreciated it, I only checked the 2024 version and I forget that there are significant changes between 5e14 and 5e24 (I use A5E).

What's weird is that the snow/ice aren't actually listed under the spell's components... I was GOING to say "oh hey, aren't spell components without a $ cost covered by a spell focus" buuut it seems like the snow/ice is required, but not listed as said spell component. So... yeah. I guess you...

I thought we were just talking about the term multiverse specifically as we use it today, in which case yes it was Moorcock. But the concept of many worlds/realities in fiction? You can go back far. CS Lewis at least, probably before.