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Its pretty simple. WoTC has a bigger advertising budget than all other rpg companies put together. They also have famous actors playing dnd online like CR. We're ignoring how thats big money and they make many million per year doing so, much less what kickbacks are they getting from wotc too...

Look Alarm! you get an alarm when someone charges into camp. Oh wait thep arty can all take turns doing watch, and only get like 4 hours of interrupted sleep but it still counts as a full rest so it doesnt matter. Your also pretending that ritual is the ONLY way to cast these. A big part of...

This is a bit hyperbolic. Most things are pretty cut and dry. The paladin knows what they will do when they smite, the bard knows what they will do as well. This idea is being presented where the wizard can and must somehow know everything thats gonna happen, and that the dm will always tell...

In general, my issue is how they try to prevent a couple powerful CC spells from ending the fight. 3rd ed had an immunity list, just make the mob immune to charm, fear, and a few conditions, and away you go! That would work, the fight trivializing spells don't work. Banish and edge cases? Meh...

Every wizard in the game would trade a few rituals for the subclass abilities of a sorcerer. Each sorcerer is different and unique, wizards are all functionally identicle. Are rituals kinda neat? Sure why not. Do they make the class? No, they are a low powered ribbon.

Which of course depends on the wizard having the money and access to buy all the ritual spells. However rituals are VERY MUCH not as powerful as they are made out. If they were, sorcerers would take the spells. Rituals are like ribbons, they look pretty but don't do very much.

This isn't the same though. Monsters are killed by reducing hp. Your lvl 20 fighter attacks a bunch and does a bunch of damage (but doesn't kill it). The fighter feels good, like they did something. Your sorcerer casts a 5th level spell HOPING The bbeg fails the same and then uses up a legendary...

All this is utterly based on mother may I. If the dm doesn't want you to know, all your diviniations are meaningless. All your "gold is worthless" and "there are no magic shops" only matters if the dm makes it that way. If there are magic item shops in your game, then gold ALWAYS has meaning...

Yes it does in 5th ed, which is a bs design failure. It lets whatever stat be your casting stat with no regard to how that actually works, because they designed 5th ed to be like a videogame instead of an rpg. Your suave smooth talker is somehow a better wizard than a wizard. Why? Because he has...

Are you really trying to claim that 5th ed is not based around 6-8 encounters per day? Seriously? lol

IF you've tried playing a caster, then you will see that it IS a huge problem. You cannot use your best abilities because "legendary save". So you gotta cast your middle abilities to see if the monster will use them, all while the dm knows what will happen if all legendary saves get used up. So...

I suspect they didn't because the design ethos of 5.5 is minimum changes. They didn't want the work of major system changes, the idea is to simply refresh things to sell the same books over again. At 10yrs old, it was ripe for a new edition, but I figure this will go like 3.5. They'll spend the...

Yes, in the same way your floor stays clean after you have swept it....

I think there is a big flaw with the concept of magic resistance. 5th rarely to never has encounters where you turn all the melee off, where they do 50% damage, or the mob can just say "legendary save, you have no effect this round". Yes, there can be rare immunities that can be planned around...

I think we disagree here. No one plays games with 6-8 encounters per day, thats pretty obvious from every post about this topic since 2014. So wotc is trying to force an obnoxious style of gameplay on people that NO ONE does. I understand how they tried to have a balance between short/long...

There is a massive missunderstanding in here. People who do not play wizards love to imagine wizards have all spells in the game memorized at all times. In 5th ed, there is NO mechanism to change spells outside of a long rest. In 5.5, you can change a SINGLE spell on a short rest. Thus you go...

This was never the norm though. I've played every version of dnd except 4th ed, and I can tell you I've never had a single session where we had 8 combats in a "day". Heck, out of every rpg in my life I've never once even had 6 seperate combats in a single day. This entire idea is a massive...

I think you should go for it. 5th ed has created the narrative that players are unique invincible heros. Its the story of HOW they win, not if they win. give them serious curveballs that make them do different things, that what makes a game fun.

play if like a player would. Its an embarrassment for the system everytime a party kills a dragon. No dragon would ever stand on the ground so they can get surrounded. Fly 61 feet in the air so its out of range of all spells and drop boulders. NEVER let stupid tricks work to make you land, cause...