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It's not relevant for Rangers and Paladins. 5th level is when both of these classes gain access to their 2nd level spells. That might be a weak level-up without extra attack, depending on how you feel about the level two spells of those classes, but it isn't remotely "dead". You accept that some...

I think it all depends on what percentage of the times you find yourself being attacked you are being attacked by a visible opponent within 30 feet, with the closest creature to it being someone you don't mind seeing hit, and you are only attacked a single time during that round. It also depends...

Most definitely.

I remember looking into this at some point (I was a classics major who then got a history MA focusing on Medieval and Early Modern Europe, so it kind of went with the territory). I think I recall that there is a claim that the British royal family can trace lineage back to a specific Roman...

I can't opine on CR, because I pay very little attention to such things (and frankly, unless this is intended for publication, CR is mostly academic and you should focus more on how the monster you went to all the trouble of designing serves your specific encounter needs). Unlike some people I...

I mean, you ignored the rest of the posting where I emphasized that I was not a conspiracy theorist, but rather someone who is just deeply cynical about things the people doing corporate PR say, whatever the corporation, specifically to head off anyone taking the comment in the light you just...

Because I misread and thought the bundles were now the default, which you will note is a reasonable way to interpret the OP's summary of the press release. Indeed even now actually reading the press release I had to give it a couple passes before I could parse how it didn't say that (basically...

To me an ongoing effect of any type goes against the theme of the spell, which is the swift, brutal, "kill with a single, overpowered word of ancient, foundational magic". The instant success or failure is part of the vibe, the problem is simply that by time you gain access to it everything...

I mean, maybe... but they are coming up against the tough fact that there is a soft limit on how many streaming services people will subscribe to, and streaming just isn't ever going to be profitable in 5th or 6th place (it isn't always in 1st through 4th, but those seem viable long term)...

I mean I'd argue that for campaign books fewer pages is usually better. Whether or not that's true of adventures from other publishers, the problems with WotC approach to adventure design become much more apparent the more bloat it gets. I mean fundamentally a lot of bad habits of how...

Or their data, as presented, is curated to justify their behavior. Look, I'm not some sort of anti-WotC hardliner conspiracy theorist, I own Hasbro stock for goodness sake. I'm not someone who rants about their agendas or whatever, I don't know to what extent they have one, and I don't care...

That just emphasizes my point if we don't even know what the nature of the data collection here is at all. These reported statistics, as they have reached us, are so attenuated from whatever actual information WotC has that I just don't see the point of paying them mind.

I can respect the inflation aspect, and I love physical/digital bundles in principle. But (at this juncture) I have no interest in D&D beyond, so the digital bundling feels less like a bonus and more like forcing me to buy something I don't want in order to buy the thing I do want.

Perhaps. Really all I was getting at is that in this case we are discussing data which, not only went through the inherent problems of surveys, but is reported secondhand from WotC's cherrypicked highlight "facts", and that there is an additional filter that WotC, at some times for some...

And a yard is a basically disfavored unit of measurement in the systems that have it. Americans use it almost exclusively for dimensions related to athletics, and because it is a decent unit to measure distances run. Even when we use yardsticks we are actually concerned about using them to...

I mean perhaps in the sense of each of them individually not wanting enough changes to merit a ".5" but once they all get their preferred tweaks it comes to a ".5". I can buy that as a possible explanation, but I think there must also be some contingent of the design team that very much wants a...

I can imagine that I might refuse to use a system based on the metric measurements, so I voted no. But it would have to be pretty obtrusive, and there would have to be very comparable games equally available. Basically I think the metric system is a stupid system based on fetishizing ease of...

Such a nice quote. Exactly what I want to hear. Too bad it's not only kind of true. I don't care about the terminology. Whether or not it's a "new edition", OneD&D is a more substantial redesign than I wanted, and, I would argue, more of a change than a 5e player whose only knowledge of OneD&D...

I would definitely want to know more about the methodology of this survey before I put much stock in it, especially since WotC, who no doubt conducted or commissioned it, is presumably only interested in getting at information about their customers or potential customers, not all the people off...

Sadly my playtesting group never quite materialized, and now I'm moving in a couple of months for a new job, so this whole project is mostly on hold. So nope, no playtest data yet. That said, I'm not too concerned about the two attacks thing, having designed all my character classes with that...