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I read it but the stuff about the high level game where resource recovery isn't as big an issue isn't really relevant the what we are discussing (a potion based mechanic to replace the rest based mechanic for resource recovery). You can't gather a resource if it doesn't exist, or there isn't a...

The DM controls what is in the game world, which includes any resources, such as what you need to craft your mana potions. Well they still need to get the DM's permission effectively to do that so, again he still has control of the recovery mechanic. So what's your problem with the DM...

So you are still either incumbent on the DM to control the availability of the resource, or the players can farm as much they like. Also building a functional economy seems a heck of a lot of work, compared to just resting.

Okay so how are they handed out by the game designer? What mechanism are you using?

Ah so mana potions are a limited resource... who determines the limitation? In your original post you seem to be complaining that players had to negotiate the amount of rest time available with the DM to regain resources. Your solution is they have to now negotiate the amount of mana potions...

It's more a case of you often see people who don't know about 4th Ed suggesting solutions for 5th Ed problems that are remarkably like solutions that were used in 4th Ed for 3rd Ed problems, that were reintroduced because Pathfinder did so well in comparison.

But there are evil nations that aren't tribal. So we have good and evil tribal groups and good and evil non-tribal groups. So the just being evil, doesn't seem to be an issue. I'm not sure about the brutishness and stupidity of particular groups, there are certainly tribal groups in D&D that...

To be honest you can do both, in both. With magical healing you can easily get to full health in short rest even if they are doing repeat castings of a spell that cures 1 hp a go. Time isn't really a major factor if you aren't counting in 6 second rounds.

Or short rest abilities recover between encounters. You could have Daily Powers and Encounter Powers.... where have I heard that before? Seems like we are reinventing the wheel, a wheel lots of people thought was wonky last time it was on the D&D car. Personally I liked it, but it didn't go...

Yes because imaging my character having little blue and red bars to track mana and health like a computer game is so much more realistic than imaging my character recovering by having some time to rest and treat their injuries. Let me just reach into my backpack and pull out one of mana potions...

But there are plenty of tribal groups in D&D that aren't evil, brutish, stupid, etc and have detailed cultures, so what is your problem? Admittedly they don't all fit in the PHB, but D&D has a massive history across multiple campaign settings, to think that tribal is only used for evil races...

They haven't even been able to achieve the same level until 3rd Edition, And they haven't had the same intellectual capacities until 5th edition, in fact not until updates to this edition.

What makes you think, it applies to a whole species? The PHB doesn't have room to speak about the entire species, so it talks in general terms. If read in a text book that the British enjoy tea, do you assume every single person living in Britain enjoys tea, or do you assume the majority do?

Or a more recent one The Scully Effect on women in STEM fields, which wasn't intended as propaganda.

Really? You see any issues that someone could take with any of the stuff you wrote? Smarter than apes, less intelligent than player species (int 7). They would be classed as beasts, not humanoids. So black slaves have never been compared to smart apes, or being non-human? Unable to speak (or...

It isn't a fair analogy, you need to show malice intent for D&D to be acting as the bully in this instance. There is no evidence this was done to harass or harm like in your example. The evidence that it even is a caricature of the victim is slim and circumstantial at best. In this thread, in...

You are just recreating the "problem", at some point anything you create someone will say is a reflection of prejudices to X marginalized group and the process starts again.

No it is important to understand these are fictional tools to represent "an aspect of ones own self", not a real-life human culture, or people. Once you realise they are a fictional tool and not a racist depiction the problem goes away. If you humanize them and make they rounded and complex...