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I said plot points, not an entire campaign plot. Advocating in favor of DMs having some idea about what plot points could be coming up in the next session is about as hot a take as claiming the sky is blue.

I doubt that a single person out there thinks that the entire session is read from a script with them memorizing every line - what people mean by "scripted" is all of the plot points are planned out beforehand (generally always true in any DnD game with a remotely prepared DM) and that all the...

Ok yeah that makes sense and I think the new rules could make things slightly slower with new complexity being added for classes that previously had few/no combat options. Plenty of players can be excruciatingly indecisive now though too, it's really just one of those things that is best...

I always find that min/maxers are the fastest at taking turns in combat. Part of analyzing the math on everything to the Nth degree to put your build together is that you are prepared to take your turns quickly without much analysis paralysis. If you are making any decisions in the moment...

I don't know how to be more careful than redundantly stating multiple times in the same sentence that this was only my personal experience. Also COVID hit me fairly hard as well, I was only saying that Flu is more deadly than people realize

In my experience, Flu was much worse for me than COVID - I definitely vouch that Flu is more dangerous than it gets credit for

Obviously there is no wrong way to enjoy DnD, but for anyone who enjoys optimizing their damage output, GWM / SS were required feats, which was very bad for the game and I'm glad to see them nerfed.

Oh ok maybe I misunderstood that. I thought the point was that damage ceiling (i.e. optimized damage) is going up for martials (per post #122), specifically due to GWM and weapon masteries. I'd totally agree that this change helps non-optimizers by nerfing an overpowered Must Have feat, and...

Well yeah of course the math looks bad if you give the target a huge AC and ignore Advantage. If you built a Level 20 character without guaranteed Advantage on demand then you are doing it very wrong, with or without GWM. Even against 22 AC, that should be 16 damage per attack with GWM and...

Fair question, I was responding to someone who I assumed meant "more damage per round", but maybe I had that wrong. I would definitely argue that GWM is "improved" in the sense of being a much better design even if the damage is lower. The old version was overpowered, while also being very...

I don't see how anyone can argue that GWM is improved - can you link the math on that? I'm looking thru Treantmonk videos but only found one old one using some bad assumptions (Champion fighter, no advantage). GWM currently adds WAY more than 3-6 damage per round under most builds, which is...

If #2 is addressed (big IF), it would be in the DM guide so we wouldn't know yet. I wouldn't hold my breath since it's so DM dependent in terms of what type of campaign setting you're running, and WotC tends to err on the side of providing zero guidance in cases like this where providing any...

Yeah exactly my thoughts as well. If you REALLY love DnD then you're always going to want to DM. People will mainly prefer playing is if they are brand new (spotty stick rate) or they are experienced but don't have much time to dedicate to the hobby (can be spotty attendance, but also can be...

This is 100% my experience as well, I only want to play in person and have less than zero desire to play online. I always laugh when people say there is a DM shortage, this may be true online but definitely not for in person gaming. I've always found that DMs are everywhere, it's the players...

Magic Items are frequently haphazardly balanced as if someone threw a dart at a board to determine their rarity, attunement, etc. Wand of the War Mage is just one of those unfortunate cases where it's much weaker in reality than WotC initially thought. Maybe they thought that ignoring cover...

For some reason people seem to think "martial/caster divide" means that casters do more damage even though martial classes (plus paladins) generally already do the highest damage. It's going to be really lopsided after martials all get buffed (except paladins). I still think though that it...

They definitely are. They nerfed many of the most egregious nova damage abilities - divine smite, conjure animals, great weapon master / sharpshooter, assassin surprise and surprise in general, etc

My thoughts exactly. Leave new races as a niche where third party publisher content shines

My opinions: the new rules are not very different than the old ones, but almost all the changes are better. For people who are brand new to DnD it will make sense to only use the new rules because they're better. For people who already owns all the old books and don't want to re-buy nearly...

You have Tempest Cleric on there twice - I assume one was supposed to be Twilight Cleric (it's missing) but I'm not sure which