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Looks like 5.5e is inching bit by bit back towards 4e-style mechanics.

For Command spell specifically, I know that it's not a list of set verbs instead of any verb you want but have any other elements of the spell changed, specifically the requirement that the target has to understand your language?

They buffed Spirit Guardians? blinks Wow. I'm trying to come up with something coherent to say in response to finding that out and am failing.

I think the same goes for the FATE game I played where one person just could not wrap their head around the metagame fate point economy. They were used to RPGs working in a certain way and their expectations just had a really hard time shifting to new ideas. There's a real gap between the games...

I think this might be easier to teach 4e to newbies than to 3.5e veterans. I saw people constantly try to use 3.5e rules in 4e and getting naughty word mixed up. Can only speak to my own experience. This happened to me in two different groups and in both cases we had one guy who just could not wrap...

For me one issue with the online tools that that players know all the numbers on their character sheet but they sometimes have no idea where those numbers came from so if something unexpected happens they often have no idea what modifier to add as they don't know, for example, what things get a...

Well there's two ways to judge an edition: 1. What it's trying to do. 2. How well it succeeds at what it's trying to do. What 5e is trying to do is shifting away from the kind of D&D that I want to play. 5e was always a compromise for me rather than my first choice and while the underlying...

Well overall the 5.5e edition wars have been pretty peaceful. Nothing like the 4e ones or even the 5e ones where the 4e fans were pissed about promised DMG "modules" and the acknowledgement stuff. Yeah, my regular game has a lot of time out for snacks, table chatter, etc. etc. we're not really...

Everyone's play experience is different. Just in my own personal experience I've found that I enjoy 5e a lot more when there are 5-6 fights per long rest than if there are 1-2 fights per long rest. However, getting in those 5-6 fights per long rest takes a lot more time than in TSR-D&D (at least...

It's REALLY hard to judge things like this ahead of time. However, on more newbie-filled areas of 5e discussion there seems to be remarkably little positive 5.5e buzz. Looking at here: Reddit - Dive into anything for example there's a lot of talk about 5.5e but the poll there about adopting it...

From a business perspective WotC is absolutely correct to make 5.5e a conservative edition. Online discussion has a lot more veteran players and hardcore players and those people tend to want bigger changes and/or are more burnt out on 5e. As to what changes to 5e would've been most worthwhile...

Yup, every time I hear "flavor is free" I am sad.

Eh, it depends on how well 5.5e does in sales. If sales drop enough they'll go back to the drawing board.

Yup, the main aspect of 4e that I didn't like is coming back while the aspects that I did like about 4e aren't. I much prefer various things that characters can do to be fiction first with the rules trying to put that fiction into effect but with DM rulings being there in order to make sure that...

It's a bit too early to tell how things will sort out wrt adoption of 5.5e and player availability. Three basic options: 1. Same thing that happened with 3.5e: 5.5e quickly supplants 5.5e as the default RPG game and some 5e subclasses etc. that don't have 5.5e updates are used for a little...

Having a 5e campaign with 1-2 long drawn out fights per long rest emphatically does not work fine. Played in a campaign like that, it caused all kinds of problems. Completely messed up class balance as some classes are far better for two fights per long rest than others. Also those fights tend...

The problem with blandesingers isn't the added melee ability, it's the ability to stand back and do the same kind of tactics that any other wizard would do, just with more AC.

Yeah I think some people aren't really seeing the forest for the trees. A lot of the abilities they're adding are nifty in isolation but with all of them added in combat is going to bog down, which is a problem as combat taking too long is my biggest complaint about 5e as it is. This is...

Yeah, reminds me of the old days when I drove myself nuts trying to run more LotR-style games with 2e. Old school rules don't really fit well with epic quest-based fantasy and trying to beat that square peg into a round hole caused a lot of frustration for me (and a lot of other people) in the...

Ah, my mistake then. Thanks for correcting me. Yeah, in that case Shield not getting nerfed is straight-up BS. And they nerfed Inflict Wounds? Now that's just stupid.