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I understand that sometimes we may meet somebody whose views are so ridiculous from our perspective, that mockery seems like a natural and justified recourse, but it actually very rarely is. And creating a specific thread for the sole purpose of grilling somebody over a perceived bad take may be...

I could go on and write a huge back and forth reply, but at this point it would probably be a very lengthy and agonizing read. I believe we both expressed our opinions and everyone reading can figure out on their own who's right and wrong or whatever. I will just reply very shortly to this...

Isn’t making a whole new thread just to point and laugh at someone else’s thread a bit dickish? Or am I the only one thinking this?

To a degree, yes. But, at higher levels, you could also have NPCs enemies and spellcasting monsters dropping really dangerous AoE stuff on the party, so it's a wash. Low level characters may have to deal with an Hold Person targeting a couple party members. High level parties may have to deal...

I have to disagree. 1. The 5e balance only holds true at low levels. Saving throw scaling is very bad, so saves cannot keep up with DCs. At first level a typical PC will have 2 good saves it can pass with an 8 or so, another couple of decent saves where it gets a 50/50 shot, and one or two bad...

Personally, I’m a fan of the 4e implementation, with fort/ref/will as static NADs, and Str/Con linked to Fort, Dex/Int contributing to Reflex, and Wis/Cha contributing to Will. But I realize that ship has probably sailed.

I’m sure the 6 saving throw setup can be saved, with a lot of tweaks, effort and math revisions. I’m not sure it’s worth saving, when Fort/Ref/Will would be simpler and more intuitive.

Thing is, even that wouldn’t be enough to fix the scaling. Heck, even high levels monks, with their Omni-save proficiency, are basically just as good at passing high level saving throw DCs than low level characters are at passing low level DCs (not taking re-roll potential into account, only...

The 6 saves system is (IMO) one of the worst ideas of d&d 5e. The designers kind of acknowledged this by making 3 of those 6 saves far better than the other 3, but I believe we would still be better off going back to fort, reflex and will. Remove the resilient feat, while we’re at it. The 6...

Pretty much this. People who disagree with a mod's personal opinion are very likely to think twice about expressing their disagreement, and may decide to hold their tongue. That could lead to frustration, and possibly to more passive-aggressive posting. Moreover, people who are fully onboard...

An opinion on moderation, assuming this is an appropriate thread to express it: I think it's inappropriate and not conducive to good conversation when mods fully engage in forum discussions, especially heated ones, which is something I've often seen happen on Enworld. At the very least, I...

I think that by making the short sword a simple weapon, WotC just destroyed the assumption that simple weapons must be weaker than martial ones. We just have to accept that a select few simple weapons are just as good as their martial counterparts. Or I guess we can criticize this approach in...

Reducing the performance of the top optimized rogues and martial characters in general would be fine if they do one or both of these: find some other way to buff the baseline performance of those classes (no, addressing the bonus action troubles of TWF isn’t nearly enough, even though it’s...

Or how about the other way around? Let’s add a “respectfully disagree” button. It may deter people from going into flame wars, since they can just press a button to show their disagreement. Some other forums I go to have this, and it seems to work well enough.

It still has it, it’s on the next page.

Unless I’m missing something, resilient remained the same, and warcaster was actually buffed considerably by becoming an half feat (except for the lost interaction with polearm master, but that was niche). Resilient (Con), specifically, yeah, although as I said before there are many dangerous...

It worked for that one player who picked ranger in one of my games. He liked superiority dice, and he liked the non-magical healing poultices he could craft. If WotC offered a ranger variant like that, I think people might be satisfied. A problem with the current Ranger is that some of its class...

I’ve seen old Healer in action, gotta agree that it’s a fantastic feat. Helps conserve so much spell slots that would otherwise get wasted on healing. Loses a bit of steam beyond level 8 or so. GWM and SS were obviously high power choices. Resilient (Con) is golden merely because of how...

I'd say the rogue is the pure expert, and (supposedly) the best at the whole skill department.

Jeez, kind of an overreaction, considering how civil the conversation has been so far.