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The point remains that any other player can also do this, but some players can do this idea generation and get mechanical ways for their character to contribute to the execution as well and some don't. Why is this? Combat has 2 parameters: 1) player skill input on what to do (idea)- where to...

Another 4e innovation not brought forward! 4e Rituals put all these big non-combat utility spells into Rituals that were clearly party resources on a separate resource track. Also for a low cost, any character could be a ritual caster. It didn't really solve the "magic is the best utility"...

It's even worse than this. Many of the "keep it grounded" folks want only martial stuff to be grounded Game of Thrones but seem fine with tons of Dr. Strange wizards running around. To me this is the real disconnect. It's very genre mixing that doesn't happen often in fiction because...

That's good to know. That said, 5e v1 has some dubious stuff that the "actual playtest network" didn't catch that fans pointed out pretty quickly after release. Of course, maybe they did do all the math and comparisons and it's a deliberate design choice. I never get a really good...

Yeah I really don't understand why you wouldn't want to use free playtesting these days. I'm always amazed by the crazy fan made in depth analysis that comes out 2-3 weeks after new material. Math layed out, great comparison charts, pro and cons, etc. Even elegant solutions to problem...

Yeah, IMO they would be much better off trying to get feedback on a much smaller subset of key design points. I pretty sure you can come up with a well designed 10 questions that would really get to the heart of the short rest / implied encounters / reality at tables issue.

I haven't done more than look through a few of the current surveys so maybe it's gotten better, but I don't have a lot of confidence in prior surveys and how they are used/presented. It's like the Fighter / Mythic Martial issue. Surveys say Fighters are the most played class now so there's...

So much. Really wish we had seen an evolved version. 1. balacing caster and martial while retaining flavor (caster still got "permissions" martials didn't) 2. rituals as party resources 3. non combat resolution system 4. very little broken stuff -- could mostly just say use anything to...

Too early to tell. Looks like focus spells might get better (especially for wizards), could be spell changes, implement bonuses for spell attacks, etc. I really hope they don't nerf casters. Low level casters are on the weak side already and while high level casters are ok power wise, it...

Which part is white room analysis? As far as I can see, we aren't talking about edge case, perfect set up scenarios here?

2 short rests possible between every long rest. 5 min short rests. Gives you basically guaranteed 3x usage of short rest abilities and differentiate them from dailies as you can't nova all in 1 encounter. Design with that in mind. 6 spell slots daily is a little better than 2 spell...

We did this in the 2e era with 3 DMs . It was a lot of fun. We purposely did not give the next DM any background notes. So the new DM knew everything from being a player and didn't outright contradict that but otherwise anything not yet revealed was fair game. It was fun as one of the...

Sorry, your thread, and I shouldn't have assumed. What does + mean these days though? I thought + was more stay on topic and don't challenge the assumptions in the OP vs. be positive / agree with everyone? So if you want to focus on the narrative people would like to justify mythic martials...

Completely agree. Don't get it either. But to be fair, this isn't an EVERYONE issue. As you can see if you read through the recently closed thread, the "your ruining my fun by having an option I don't like" crowd does seem to be predominately on the anti-mythic martial side. I could be...

Yeah, I get why some people want more tightly tethered player choice to character choice. Nothing wrong with that preference. I don't think you are doing this, but what I don't like is when people refuse to evaluate 4e under the paradigm that makes things make sense. If you look at it...

I'm fine with something like Micah Sweet's. Here's another one, coped from closed thread as well: Mythic Martial Origin: You have the blood of the First Peoples flowing through you. The First Peoples walked the world in mythic times, and would be seen as like the Gods walked among us if they...

The issue is that D&D either intentionally or not has evolved it's high level spellcasters into Dr. Strange like superheroes. There are hardly any fantasy settings that have these superhero wizards. Even the D&D books I've read don't have Wizards throwing around their full load out. Fantasy...

Yeah, I thought of all 4e martial powers as essentially player buttons that signified when the narrative time was right where the actions/effect could be done given the Character's situation, mental state, fatigue ,what they had for breakfast, whatever. All editions of D&D actually have a lot...

Yeah, or polymorph into a clay golem, or Wish, or Fly/Kite. I'm sure there are others. The Tarrasque maybe isn't a great example given it's poor design in 5e, but the point was just that 20th level Fighters can be crazy good as other classes are too.

And how would a 20th level Wizard do?