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force of personality doesn't make you better at solving physics problems. This is learning magic, not being a salesman. Chr has nothing to do with skill at magic.

its kinda meaningless I suppose when they use charisma to cast spells? Being a persuasive person makes you good at learning spells and casting them? 5th ed commonly divorces rationals from the system. They simply want things to be a certain way and then leave it to us to try and imagine a reason...

I disagree. The game material for 5th ed NEVER had support for exploration. So saying "people don't want exploration cause they don't do it" is meaningless when there is no support for it. Thats like say middle ages people hated flying, because none of them ever booked a flight...

Meh, so its prone. The point of cc is to lock things down while others are doing stuff. If the party all concentrates, then who cares if you have then locked down? Either way, if you run up and grapple a castre, they can still cast, and everything plus its mother has misty step. Its hard to see...

Its not in a vacuum, its in comparison to what was lost. Also, you choose stunning fist over a different option so there is an opportunity cost. Is stunning fist worthless? OF course not. Is the monk a reliable class to lock down a caster? Laughably no now, monks are no long capable of CC. Thats...

I think people staying with the dnd product vs something else is ALOT more complicated than dnd is the best one. There is the money buy in part, you play the game you own the material for. Then this is the game other people play, so you play it cause its what other people do. There is almost...

you do have a point that stunning strike did have the problem of "why should I use anything else instead".

One game with 1 dm is a poor way to measure it. CR has a very specific running and play style of the character. I will often run up and try to stun important things to keep them under control, so I see alot of legendary resists. If that CR player didnt, then you get a different ratio. MAybe CR...

dont worry, rangers don't really have spells anyways. Or bonus actions! They just have hunters mark and an attack action. Can't let them be like all the other classes and be useful or anything lol.

I Agree that D4 has alot of needless complication. Literally nothing matters, you can choose all your skills at random (And not even spend some) and still cant help but beat the campaign and move on. As for dnd, what do you want then instead of subclasses? Many of us want a large menu of...

you do have a point that weapon mastery really detracts from monks in ways most do not realize yet. Alot of monk combat utility is now free for every melee to use, whereas monks need to spend class abilities to do those things.

This is a potatoe potAto thing. People who think simple design is boring say complexity. Those who want simplicity use negative words like convoluted instead. One is not wrong, its the persons preference. In the case of subclasses, 5e has gone far into the boringly dull and lack of useful...

Alot of these changes are good. I especially like changing deflect arrows into deflect melee to. My DMs never used arrows or if they did, it was just once a fight. This turned a pointless ability into a good one. I am unhappy about the huge nerfage to stunning fist - specifically once a round...

Yea, I dont get the monkey paw thing. Thats not a system problem, its dms being Aholes.

Yes, but that is the goal. You make a single decision for your 5e character lvl 1-20. What subclass then done.. 5e goes out of its way to remove all options. We talk about "less complexity" but fail to realize that "less complexity" is dull and boring. A blank piece of paper is less complex than...

Alot of it looks interesting and fun. The only thing I'm uphappy about is wrecking DI. It was a fun an interesting ability, now its just bland.

being in a soul coin is kinda tortue and very conconsensual. Is stopping the torture of an "evil" person not a good act? Doing nothing is never a neutral act. By its very nature, doing nothing is endorsing whats happening, because there was an option to change things, but it was decided to let...

The trouble with rolling is that unless its all witnessed rolls, some have vastly more powerful characters than others... Even then, if someone has bad rolls, a wizard with a 12 int won't land many spells. The game is designed for you to have good stats.

because those mechanics ARE all they have in 5th ed. There is SOO little actual content and world development in 5th ed, that the different races are simply a picture and a stat block. If you take away the stat block, then they are literally nothing. You can say theres a group of humans who like...

I feel like this gets into the core issue of 5th ed. Simplify everything and remove any mechanics so that its all "clean" and "easy". However if races are functionally identicle, then why do they exist? You can write a char background to be a prince of some group of magic nature people without...