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That's actually exactly the sort of thing I love about Command. The ogre isn't going to salute because the FICTION of the world is that it's a medieval society in which saluting has not been invented yet. Now the fiction of the world matters in terms of how the spells work. Yay! As for the...

"Direct-brain whisper projection: when you whisper a command direct to another person's mind (they have to be able to see you, but you don't have to interact), you get the effects of going aggro without going aggro. Roll+weird instead of roll+hard. If they force your hand, your mind counts as a...

Really depends on what you mean by "rulings." Blades in the Dark doesn't require the GM to make many rulings since the rules clearly establish parameters for who gets to say what when. However a lot of that is "the GM makes up some naughty word now that seems cool to them, basically anything they want...

Why would I spend a bunch of time to learn rules that I like less than the rules that I already have? Seems like a waste of time. It took YEARS to get 3.5eisms out of my head when running 5e. I don't want to deal with that naughty word again unless a new edition is CLEARLY superior.

I haven't gone over 5.5e rules carefully enough but it looks like with all of the emphasis on ways to make monsters move around that have been added in 5.5e, default tactics will revolve around bopping enemies into AoEs and the like more than in 5e.

Right, 5.5e is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar from as locked down as 4e. But in my case "too much" can easily be defined as "more than 5e." And 5.5e is clearly more locked down than 5e, even if not by much.

3e? Yes exactly. All of weird-ass Rolemaster-inspired stuff that was imported into 3.*e (freaking skill points and all the rest of the rules bloat) and dropped by later editions should've never been added. I still shudder at the thought of 3.5e grapple and climbing rules. 3e strayed too far from...

Indeed. I freaking love Whitehack but if 6e was Whitehack rebranded as D&D I'd understand that people would be confused and upset. And edition of an existing game should be an edition of that game, not something that rebuilds basic assumptions of how that game operates.

Yup. That's the whole point of this thread. I kept on noticing that this swing was happening and was a bit confused why more people weren't commenting on it since most of the talk about 5.5e was on class balance reshuffles, possible exploits and rule loopholes, etc. etc. For me this pendulum...

Well there's a couple different ways you can set it up: 1. Wizard and fighter both get hammers, wizard also gets a Swiss army knife (both classes get raw power, wizard also gets flexibility). 2. Wizard and fighter both get hammers, no Swiss army knives for anyone (both classes get raw power...

No, it's up to the DM. Good point. 2030 seems impossible with how much work it'd require to do a rebooted D&D Beyond. Just don't think 5.5e will get a full ten years. I think Gygax screwed up his wording a bit here, "suicide" is always a noun AFAIK, not something that can be a noun...

What hyperbole? I always expected them to start mothballing 5e content but I didn't expect them to do it so FAST. Forcing people to manually go in and "homebrew" a whole slew of spells just to keep the naughty word they already paid for is incredibly dickish. But what do you expect from Hasbro at this...

Or when the most obvious course of action is unclear, I break out the luck die.

Yup, the DM's job is to build sandcastles for the PCs to kick over, I'm not going to hide rocks in those sand castles for the players to stub their toe on.

Yeah, and that's what I like about the spell. A lot of the verbs are only useful in incredibly narrow circumstances so they require careful thought and really thinking about the details of the fictional situation that your character is in. Really thinking about the fictional situation that your...

I mean in the veeeeeeery general sense of dialing back specific flavor and putting flavor and mechanics in separate boxes.

In this specific "defenestrate" case, I was speaking more broadly. I'd probably roll a d20 with bigger numbers being more valuable things within arm's reach and smaller numbers being less valuable things so he might chuck his sword out the window and he might chuck some pocket change. Would be...

Yeah I don't mind the specifics of the rules, but it seems like it's just a fancy way of saying "give yourself disadvantage in order to do something special."

Wow, and here I thought they'd at least put out the new core set before they started shredding their claims of backwards compatibility. I was far too optimistic.