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I think the problem is that different games tend to make different abilities more powerful. A standard textbook D&D game and STR, Con and Dex are the kings of the table, as combat determines everything. A knowledge and skillbased game and int and wisdom rule. A game where interaction with...

There were scrolls in 1e that anyone could use. They tended to be very expensive and very powerful. Protection from water created a sphere in which no water could touch you for the duration. Or do something like churches selling scrolls of Minor miracle that any who read the scripture can...

I'm not seeing people afraid to use old material. Maybe it's new DM's or people without the time to to fiddle with it. I'll admit when you pull out old stuff and try to balance it in your current game that can seem a bit like playing Jenga but the experienced DM's I know just pull what they...

I think you have missed the point that the game has had so many houseruled playstyles over the years that the devs probably intentionally avoid many of the "terrible" things people rant about online. From the sales perseptive it's better to leave it out and let the individual modify the game...

I really wish all the DnD horror fans had drifted off to other games. I wonder how much of the arguing over overpowered mages and power creep would go away if the horror style players drifted off to games designed to be horror instead of of D&d. It really is a terrible system for you if...

then at least half the people playing it would modify that and do thier own thing. I can imagine it but I can't imagine everyone playing the way you demand.

and honestly most tables don't last long with the "bad" DM's some are talking about. They either learn and get better or lose thier tables.

only if it's cheaper. If they want to cheap out on labor then it should be cheaper for me and everyone else. Though It'll only be temporary. Eventually we'll just be AI creating our own worlds and then won't need to buy thier stuff.

And as long as people have different views,opinions, life experience and varying levels of experience in telling stories and different levels of communication skills and keep entering the position of DM that will continue. Even if you had a perfect training course to fix all that "you" see...

class subclass structure is just another way of doing Prestige classes. Not really innovation. Warlord base class was just a fighter subclass so borderline innovation. I think nothing since 3rd has truly had innovation. Most changes have just been change for change sake so we can print...

so more like reality. The languages you have by the time you start your career are probably the only ones you will know. Honestly not likely to have huge affect on most games.

I"ve had games with less magic items, games with more. Since I give the baddies more magic items if they are easier to come by never seems to move the needle one way or the other. Though it's far easier to give the martials cool mage like stuff to pull out on thier own if the magic items are there.

it's like watching ice cold molasses flow from a bottle. Some great scenes here and there but they could have done all of the episodes in 1 and 1/2 hours and lost nothing of value.

Eventually perhaps but Tolkien wrote in one of his books of unfinished stuff that Sam's wants and desires were so simple the ring just had nothing to work with. Tolkien loves the idea that the truly good simple man was like a moral rock of Gibraltar. Not letting any of those over analytical...

Well even in the c8cs The Avengers don't do street level problems. Individual hero's might but the Avengers stay out of the local scene's. It would be nice to see she hulk or any of the other heros that regularly frequent new York though. Though I suspect all these crooked cops with punisher...

This is the way I feel about it. I think the Idea of balance is dieing a slow death like a fish on the beach. It seemed like such a good idea but in play meh.

or let them spend their money on social things, buy a title of nobility, Marry a poor man/woman with a title and no money and then spend the money building out thier power base, I've had characters build orphanage's, churches, or just flat out donate magic items to the local guard to build...

me too, but 3rd edition is such an unwieldy nightmare once you pass 8th level or so. Not sure there's a way to fix that and still have decent options though.

fair my apologies for saying it that way. The characters are playing to be heroes. Looking for food isn't heroic or fun at least for me or most players I"ve had since I started running games long ago. Never got anything but whining or pushback when I ran those kinds of games. Not once has...

Problem is that it is a great idea to build out specialty mages and potentially make being a generalist harder but since they've never solved the fact that some specialties suck due to the game being primarily combat focused it will simply lean even harder into all mages going into a few...