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Still catching up, wanted to latch onto this really quick. Your experience matches my own. Barring a single online group (to whom I might consider friends, but realistically we are text on a screen to each other, we've never even heard each others voices) the VAST majority of my groups...

You might lose something, but that depends. The Warhorse did lose their "Trampling Charge" ability... but it was worked into their attack. So did they really lose it? No, it was just repackaged. The Blink Dog lost something that stated "Keen Senses" but they have expertise in Perception...

This is a fine attitude, but it does only take you so far. I love using Devils (not as much demons) and I've been tweaking their lore for a while now... but literally every source on them for decades of material is about the Blood War or ties to the Blood War. And when you get to a point where...

They may not think to... but it is also a dog. This is like saying that a DM might not play a Priest as being knowledgeable about religion and sacred artifacts because they don't have an ability called "Sacred Knowledge". Some things are just inherent in the very idea of the thing. Maybe...

And that last line is the balancing act. Sure, doubling the size of a boss monster's statblock might give it all the options if could desire... but then would crowd out other things in the book, and become unwieldy and hard to use. There was mention from @dave2008 that not all DMs are skilled...

So if you want to prove they aren't nonsensical, you would need to prove that their empires and coding as legionaire forces came afterwards. Good luck and I look forward to your findings.

At what point in me quoting Paramandur, and referencing an unnamed poster's point, did I ever claim you did say that? Never. So, congratulations on your strawman. They made the change years ago, so getting irritated at it now is kind of silly. I think Fey has been criminally under-used for...

This is really the important part here. Because my goal was to show that duplicate spells were likely not an intentional consideration. I don't even think containing them was unavoidable, per se, I think it was just literally never a consideration. I do not think anyone on the design team ever...

Yeah, completely fair.

But they can't fix it for the settings which exist and claim these empires exist, but have never shown them, despite showing the world map. Which is the issue. Of course new settings can do new things. That doesn't make old settings better or their lore less nonsensical.

But they are low-level enemies. So the comment that the change of goblins to fey making them immune to charm person being bad, because they are classic low-level enemies... doesn't seem to apply. Seems like a rather poorly thought out argument.

Yes, I think the people behind the design of 5e have made the game they wanted to make. Do you have any evidence other than "well of COURSE they didn't get to make the game they wanted make" to say otherwise? You may as well say "well of COURSE Peter Jackson didn't get to make the movies he...

I'm still back on page 45. Not likely to catch up today as I'm splitting my attention between a few different focuses. There really seems to be nothing new to add to the conversation. People deride what they see as an easy game because they can't as easily kill characters for not playing the way...

But they really never mattered. If the party just stealthed normally without the invisibility spell... people can still use smelling or hearing. The only time it could matter is, if for the sole purpose of getting past a pack of dogs you knew were there, you found a way to remove all your scents...

Yeah, I caught that too. I'm actually not that weirded out by it, because it sort of fits with old myths about the two. Incubus means "the one who lays above" or something like that, and they are tied with old sleep paralysis demons, which fit the dream spell, ability to cause sleep, and the...

Agreed, that is really nice. And then if you want to improve it, you can while still keeping that common core

Single biggest gripe about the various humanoid monsters that I have. Seriously, it is so aggravating to be told Hobgoblins have empires, but to have no hobgoblin empires.

I think Giants are an interesting example, because Giants are melee brutes... but are also effective at range. Flameskulls are effective at range in 5e... but their best ability is still fireball which works in melee, especially since they are immune to fire. Cambions are the same way, equally...

Then as I have asked you for months now, do you have any evidence that the designers have not made the game they wanted to make? Because you keep stating that if they had just done things in the manner you would have preferred, then they could do that. Meaning you must have some evidence that...

Yeah, honestly, canon is just a pain in the neck. Even the most carefully curated, exquisitely mapped canon ends up with problems. And, as I stated earlier, many of these changes are taking us BACK or emphasizing things that were too subtle before. A Shambling Mound dealing lightning damage is...