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Depends on the percentage of nonhumans of civilized "modern" culture.

And every gnome is a tinker or biologist. They have to read books too. It's more that D&D forces you to make an excuse why someone doesn't know how to read and speak 2 or more languages.

Isn't a base D&D setting assumption for a stereotypical setting Every elf is a trained archer, swordsman, poet, linguist, arcanist, and basketweaver. Every dwarf is a trained smith of some sort, warrior, and regular hater of their swore enemy. So those races would have literacy programs.

Sure but it was least likely to happen. And as we see it didn't Because many people do the elements I keep saying that that prevent it. Power gaming Numerical magic items Terrain effects Many DM allowed, level appropriate, improvised actions But if you don't, tedium can easily happen because...

In 5e, my combats stopped lasting 20 minutes unless it was a blatant attempt to burn resources with boring monsters and boring tactics where one side just melted the other. Modular design would have been nice But it really isn't the only cure. 5e's Combat is really just off by a few numbers...

I don't think a modular design approach is needed. 5e just needed to have more space and restrict themselves less heavily to tradition.. It's like how a ton of DMs boost 1st level HP as a house rule in many OSR, OS+NS mix, and older edition games rather than the games do it as a core rule. 5e...

I want to be clear. I don't think Bounded Accuracy is bad. I like Bounded Accuracy. I just think The Bounds of 8 points chosen for 5e in both 2014 and 2024 are too small. This made the design team hit the "cap" too fast and caused an inflation of every other type of roll and an overuse of...

Only if that PC rolled well in play or char op. Maybe it was just my experience, but I found players tend to tune out and actually add drag to any tedium if they roll some wimp that they are forced to make a fighter or a wizard who rolled up learned obscure spells. Had to drop out of a group...

My games assume the old long lived races have literacy programs of learning the language of their younger races. I mean an elf can be young at age 200. They have time to learn Common.

In my setting, the languages are chosen and their mechanics changed to feel real in the world and provide mechanical gameplay The most common languages on the Material plane are Common, Draconic, and Elfish. Common or Common Imperial is the official language of the Gryphon Empire, its...

Never said the game doesn't require a DM. What I said it is that if your players don't power game your damage, the DM doesn't give damage increase weapons, or provide alternative forms of damage, the game can get tedious at mid levels as players repeat the same complex actions turn after turn...

Tedious implied repetition. A game can drag without repetition. 5e combat is tedious because without the DM intervention, characters are just repeating the same actions over and over and over and over to hit a big chunk of hit points. Combat can drag by not being tedious by just having one...

Not when the Tedium is sourced from the HP and Damage inflation.

No, I mean 5e Base Classes don't get Accuracy bonus or AC bonus from level outside of Proficiency bonus to to hit roll. That restriction forced WOTC to go wide on everything and vertical on HP and Damage.

Not really. There are multiple massive ripple effects of D&D Next attaching itself to Bounded Accuracy and setting the bounds to narrow. Making Leather Armor 11 AC, Plate Armor 18AC, and a commoner +2 to hit is the source of 5e's Combat Tedium.

The issue is that D&D fans have seen some issues with D&D combat for decades. However... They don't like "the look" the fixes if you show them. Other games tend to adapt one or two of these wishes and keep all the unwanted stuff. So we have this ecosystem of 10 or so popular games with the...

I didn't say the game drags. I said the game is tedious. The game is tedious because unless your players power game, they are whacking at huge chunks of HP. past level 3. Then it becomes the onus of the DM to spice up every fight or artificially boost PCs with magic items. A 2024 Hill giant...

I remember saying early in D&D Next that having Plate Armor be 18 AC and designing so a commoner can hit a level 20 fighter on a 16 grants no room to grow. But I was drown out by "Yeah. Small numbers!" And now, every turn of a PC past level 3 is long and drawn out unless the player or DM goes...

This thread wouldn't be 30+ pages if it always did. Language in Fantasy games are world built not game designed. So we shouldn't make languages a game. But we keep doing it

Which means the "game" is optional and not designed to be played. So the game is secondary to the aesthetic. It's more important that Umber Hulks speak Umber Hulk, Gith speak Gith, Slaadi speak Slaad than how to use a system of how a PC interact with Umber Hulk, Gith, and Slaad. The classic...