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Ranged is just too powerful in 5e. At the very least the archery fighting style should be replaced with something else. I mean there's a reason that target shooting is a sport and target stabbing is not, hitting things at a distance is harder in real life (especially moving targets). I can...

Yep. Probably not actually a hard fight, but the characters who beat the crabs on initiative spend the opening turns attacking the armor like they would a solo enemy, when in fact it's a bunch of tiny enemies with plate armor AC, that hop apart and swarm everyone, making the AoE that could...

But if you're a conjuration Wizard you can minor conjuration yourself a wand. You can also teleport. I was honestly a little disappointed nobody ever tried to imprison my conjuration wizard.

Awesome. I think I'm more excited for the possibility of a suit of armor in some old wizard's tower that starts to move, and the players think "oh god, another animated armor" only to discover that it's actually a colony of twelve armor crabs!

So my own 5e clone game has a spell-less class in place of Rangers, a spell-less class in place of Bards, and my priestly class has limited Warlock style spell casting, with ability check based prayers as their primary role. Which is all just to say, that while WotC will never do what you're...

So is your monster going to have purpose built armor (giant trained war crabs or something), or is it just going to be a species of hermit crab that infest unattended armories?

I'm a little disappointed given that they have one written by a Johnson and one written by a Johnston, that they other two upcomming books in the series aren't written by a Jonson, a Jensen, a Johanson, or a Jones.

It is easy to forget amidst playtests of such vigorous (and needless) class remixing, three or four different takes on inspiration, and that one time they threatened to make critical hits both radically less important and radically more complicated, that it really looks like the core rules are...

I mean, I do like the idea at least of diseases in my D&D. I think their a lot of roleplay potential, and I think having non-magical afflictions is a nice option for DMs weary of the everything is magic all the time vibe of 5e. But that's all the more reason I don't want paladins to be able to...

I mean, I don't think it will be a flop by any means, but I can't help but think the marketing budget must be through the roof. Their Led Zeppelin budget alone must be astronomical. So the break even ends up being pretty damned high.

Which is fair enough. But I think when the timeline of someone's life becomes a key plot point more care should be given to having the actor look like the age you want them to be. That said, they also had to cast someone who reasonably matched specific parents here. That's already a lot of...

I think unarmed attacks being weapon attacks is just horribly tortured rules-legalistic thinking that makes the game byzantine and obtuse to all but its deepest initiates. Now they seem to want to get around the problem by filling the manual with "or unarmed strike" verbiage. They really just...

To clarify, the issue I'm concerned with is less with having a whole party of paladins, and more with a DM thinking sewer sickness (or whatever) is going to be a challenge for the whole party, when, in fact, it is something the single 3rd level paladin is both immune to and can cure in 3 party...

I mean, it's a ribbon feature until it interjects to spoil the DM's plans. It's kind of just one more thing hemming in what sort of challenges DMs can effectively throw at players, and one more thing DM's have to remember when planning, while at the same time being something that will never come...

Alright, question for my own 5e clone design needs: If Aura of Protection just added half your Charisma mod, rounded up, would Paladin's still be sufficiently incentivized to invest in Charisma?

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But the astounding thing about that is they still don't seem to be very good at making things simple. Or at least not simple in a useful way. I mean, I get it, it's very hard for a game designer to not introduce more complexity than is necessary. Being someone who likes game complexity is...

I voted very low. Up through playtest packet 3 I was displeased but still fairly deeply invested. But the whole OGL thing both made OneD&D's absolute brand dominance seem less all-consuming, and got me hard at work making my own 5e clone taking advantage of the CC-SRD, and whether or not that...

In the early 90s I think the Star Tours gift shops basically just stocked all Star Wars merch that was being manufactured at the time (it wasn't all that much).

I was actually just leaving a Target earlier today, and found myself thinking about what a well run retailer it is. Gold standard in big box stores as far as I'm concerned.