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It sounds like this problem was resolved on the first page. You talked about how cool the barbarian is and how much you like to play that character, but not really the wizard. Have your wizard become an NPC helping out in the background and continue playing the barbarian. Also, D&D is a group...

I've read about DMs changing the way Short and Long Rests work, adapting rules from different story games, that may be a solution. They don't link the benefits of resting to actual hour or eight hour long time periods in the campaign. Instead, at any time players can choose to take a Short Rest...

What 4E did, and 5E attempts to do, is not give you all your HP at once. the exact math escapes me first thing in the morning, but the typical 4E character had about three times as much HP in healing surges as they actually had. (Monsters also weren't as rocket-taggy and, maybe this is just a...

Unfortunately, the PHB outright states on page 8 that magic is necessary in an adventuring party and a third of the book is dedicated to spellcasting, so I think you'd be losing a lot there. Every class has some spellcasting options, monsters have resistances requiring enchanted weaponry, and a...

Experience grinding all on its own, which almost seems to be what the OP's suggesting, is kind of outdated and not fun for most people; it's largely removed from modern (video game) RPG design. If players are saying "I want to grind some random encounters", something is likely wrong. If I'm the...

In 4E roles only mattered in combat. I'm not saying there aren't non-combat roles, just that when people talk striker/defender/controller/leader, they're typically only concerned with combat. The vast majority of the mechanics in D&D are about combat, with only skills (and pieces of the class...

Sailor Moon, could you explain your reasoning behind disliking boardgames being a "bane" for D&D? The only thing I could possibly think of is that it may take time away from the already small D&D team to work on boardgame stuff. All the different editions are already in competition with each...

I'm genuinely curious... Has whether a spell itself was arcane or divine come up in anyone's game? I know whether the -caster- draws from arcane or divine sources matters for some 3E prestige classes and stuff, but has it ever been needed to know if that Light spell was divine or arcane? My...

Yeah, the actual game definitely suffers for it. A lot of out-of-character stuff comes down to "Who has highest <skill>? Okay, you do it" when everyone shows up and combat becomes taking a turn then going back to talking or surfing on your phone. It's primarily because we get together to...

My main D&D group is... Inefficient and indecisive in combat to say the least. Depending on the week, we have between 5-9 players (typically closer to 9 than 5) and it takes people 2-4 minutes to look over the map, decide what to do, roll dice, see if things hit, etc. It probably doesn't help...

Do your players assume everything that dies in one hit is an illusion? To the player, what is the difference between rolling 1d6+3 for damage, getting 5, and killing a 1 HP minion kobold or a 4 HP normal kobold? Is a level 1 player-controlled wizard who rolls poorly and gets 1 HP an illusion...

Is this actually fun to the average D&D player, though? I think 4E combat lasts on average 4 rounds (not sure on other editions since encounter math is potentialy swingier), so by your estimate there's a chance I may miss every single time in an entire combat and contribute nothing! I play in a...

Ah, sorry for missing it. I'll start this post off by saying I'm not an economist, marketer, or sales person and this is all just my personal musings, so I'm not sure how much they actually matter. I feel like Wizards should expand the audience of D&D and bring in new players; leave catering to...

I'm not sure what you mean by win, or rather what the player is winning. Do you mean something short term like "survive the fight"? Or something like "throw the One Ring into Mount Doom"? I haven't really seen a difference in players "winning" D&D; "winning" a campaign seems to come down to...

The Disadvantage stuff works relatively well at any level since it's more or less equal to a -5 to that roll. It's pretty good at low levels and tapers out to good at high ones in my opinion; no problem there. So the fighting style Protection is awesome there. Anything that relies on attacks of...

I'm sorry, that's not the impression I wanted to give. I'd like the 5E fighter to have abilities that scale well as they level and don't have such a restrictive resource pool like superiority dice. I much prefer several playtest packet versions of the fighter over what we actually got because...

Thanks for the explanation; I've never seen anyone describe 4E as a board game and was interested in what made it seem that way to you. I can't say I agree with your definition since at least points 2 and 3 just seem like good game design to me (in my opinion the only other edition with a clear...

I have no idea what you mean by board game; those are as varied in mechanics and execution as tabletop RPGs and video games. What's a board game like experience? If you don't want to answer me, that's no big deal to me and I can just leave the discussion. Role playing, social and exploration...

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "board game edition"? It doesn't make sense to me. As someone who has played since AD&D, the only difference I see between 4E and the earlier editions is that the books were restructured so that all the player options are actually contained in the PHB...

Yeah. There were a ton of classes and in the book they were introduced in, there were typically 1-3 overarching ways you could build your character depending on what you wanted him or her to specialize in. Splat books, such as Martial Power, came out that added a ton more powers (abilities...