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This. You can perfectly happily play a warlock using 2014 recipes. But you've been able to do that for ten years now. The True Strike/Celestial warlock and actually good bladelocks are both new things. And True Strike is stronger than EB from levels 1-4.

5e ride or die is, I predict, going to be about as popular as 3.0 ride or die; the changes to 5.24 are probably smaller

Contrast? Possibly. Contradiction, no. If we look at the sheer quantity of 5e rules, whether or not we include combat magic, it is clearly combat heavy. At the same time in an effort to file the rough edges off combat is neither very swingy (with sudden reversals or deaths) and exciting nor...

This is a D&D board and 5e has been the current version of D&D for ten years. It's also IMO the most boring D&D combat has ever been.

My current approach is "popcorn initiative" with each person acting deciding who moves next of those who haven't acted this round. As for who starts, whoever triggers the fight gets a roll with an appropriate stat or even skill, with dexterity being appropriate for quick draws. More common is...

It depends on who's DMing. I always have two questions in the back of my head "What can I learn from this for my own DMing?" and "What would I do in their shoes?" And even a bad DM provides some lessons (although you see the same ones over and over again). DMing is always higher octane than...

Indeed. No wonder you need to be "very very selective about the people I play D&D with" given your unwillingness to try and disentangle problems or even understand that misunderstandings and clashes are far more common than malice. I have little doubt that you believe you have good intentions...

Or they play something more party orientated because they don't get told that this is playing in good faith. It is also possible to in good faith play a toxic PC. Yes. No one is denying that there are toxic players. However most players aren't. Old School D&D encouraged people who weren't...

D&D no longer does. I'm pretty sure, just taking one clear cut case, that you realise that playing a classic Kender the way you were told to play them by the rulebook was encouraging you to play like a jerk. This was hardly the only one back in the day; @Oofta has also mentioned the...

Paladin falling rules were the main one. I also recall that both 3.0 and 3.5 had a few pointed notes in the CN alignment description including something like "he is not just as likely to cross a bridge as jump off it".

I know in my case I try to be the DM I wish I had as a player. Which includes learning from all the excellent DMs I've had (and there have been a few) and getting frustrated when the DM doesn't provide the sort of hooks I do when DMing. I also know I'm less good at being the player I wish I had...

Go ask @Alzrius (or possibly Emerikol although he's currently banned for politics). He was the one who decided that it was worth writing as criticism. Meanwhile I don't think that advocating of bad DMing practice that leads to people creating the sort of problem players they complain about...

Does it ever say what's needed to empower a warlock?

In the 2024 PHB there isn't. In previous PHBs there have been. Fortunately D&D 2024 has, despite the objections of some, left them behind. For some reason people seem to think that this is a problem rather than a vast improvement.

And you aren't just not part of the solution. You are trying to prevent the problem (of rules encouraging bad behaviour from DMs - which leads to players responding in kind) from being solved. A few would. Most needed to be encouraged to give the shocks by the experimenter. And would have...

No the Milgram Experiment wouldn't have yielded the same results; people don't normally tie kids up to electroshock machines. Neither would the Stanford Prison Experiment; when they reran the experiment with more actual restrictions and oversight on the guards it had a different result. You are...

Absolutely missing the point. A rule which tells someone to do bad things to people will be followed by most neutral people because that's what the rules and authority are saying. See for example the Milgeam Experiment or the original Stanford Prison Experiment. Bad rules and bad authority will...

It's only worse than a swords bard if you're trying to run a solo adventurer. The swords bard is I think the most solipsistic self-buffer of any bard subclass, deliberately spending their bardic inspiration on their own attacls. Meanwhile the dance bard is a team buffer and after level 6 is...

Three extra attacks per long rest at level 3 and four at level 4 is non-trivial. Three or four attacks per short rest pretty good from when you get Font of Inspiration at level 5. And remember you also get the unarmoured defence at the same level. Remember that you can also make an attack as...

DMs already have a lot of power even under the most consensus models. I'm just suggesting that with power comes responsibility.