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I think quality problems killed 2E more than the rules did. The TSR products during that era were terrible, other than some of the hardcovers. 1E had very well developed, thought through and in most cases playtested (often in tournaments) modules. 2E had content that it seemed like someone...

5E works pretty well for classic dungeon crawling. We just finished replaying a series of ancient 1E adventures from 1-20 redone with 5E rules, starting with Temple of Elemental Evil and ending with the Queen of the Demonweb pits. It was great, every bit as good as when I played those...

They are not increasing at a similar level, the monster DCs are increasing at a slower level. I believe a Terrasque has the highest save in the Monster Manual at DC 27 and that is strength and con which the fighter is proficient in. A Terrasque is near the top end of a high difficulty...

only slightly more. When rolling on the magic item tables, the chance of rolling a ring of protection randomly in 1E is 0.8% (8 times in 1000). That is a 5% chance of rolling a ring and a 16% chance of that ring being a Ring of Protection. The chance for rolling a cloak of protection is...

All three of my bladesingers were nigh untouchable. I did not have a cloak of Displacement on any of them (I did have Bracers of Defense on two of them), but I used Blur and Protection from Evil and Good quite often.

+5 from a Paladin and +2.5 from bless is not in the same universe as up to +20 from Indomitable. Yes it is. This uses a high level spell slot that maxes out at twice a day at 19th level and makes the party immune to two things. The advantage on the saves at the level you can get the spell...

Spell casters can make fighters immune too. Proficiency in all saves would be fine, I think they would need to phase it in thematically - Dexterity and Intelligence at 9th level, Wisdom at 13th level and Charisma at 17th level or something like that. People here have been saying "fighters...

At 20th level it is a +20 on the save. That is MUCH more than a +10 at 9th level and it is much more than having a max stat AND proficiency and if you have those two things as well it is a +31 total on the save. A 9th level fighter with a 12 Wisdom rolling Indomitable has a +10, a 9th level...

I would not be a fan of that either.

I liked the 2014 version much better. That is not "forced" it is just the truth. It probably should have been improved, but they way they did it is not an improvement for the game. I am wondering how many people who love the 2024 indomitable are basing that on the white room or if they have...

Not like this one. No other ability in the game is so out of bounds as the 2024 indomitable. No other ability is even close. I don't think it is appropriate for a feature to allow a 17th level fighter to reroll a failed save with a +17 three times a day. If it was half your level it would...

It has a flame tongue, two staffs of striking, multiple suits of magic armor, a couple intelligent swords ..... We got so much loot from TOEE that we were hauling it around in a portable hole and when we freed some 20 or so slaves from the underdark in a later adventure we gave over half of...

You don't have to follow the guidelines and encounter design norms, you CAN do whatever you want. But saying you don't have to follow them is not the same as them not existing. You can throw 4 adult Dragons and a Terrasque against a party of 1st level PCs if you want. But encounter design...

No it is not. Now you are just making things up. "You can build an encounter if you know its desired difficulty. The party’s XP thresholds give you an XP budget that you can spend on monsters to build easy, medium, hard, and deadly encounters." (2014 DMG p81-82) If you are using the...

Actually it means the amount of XP is the budget for that encounter or that day. If my budget for a new car is $20k and I buy a $250k Mercedes I did not buy according to my budget. If my budget for a deadly encounter is 5500xp and I throw a 62,000xp Red Dragon at the party, that is not an...

I get that. The first time I played 5E it was using the Phandelver starter set with the pregens. But in terms of functionality, I think those sheets were as useful as these will be. It had the equipment, the spells, the abilities, all there written on the pregen character sheet. Also as...

Perhaps you don't understand what a budget is.

This thread is in the 2024 forum, not the 2014 5E forum and in the post I made on healing vs enemy damage (which you replied to), I used the term "high difficulty fight" which is the verbiage used in the 2024 DMG, not the 2014 DMG. Even if it was in the 2014 5E forum though, the 2014 DMG still...

Me too on the 2E changes. It is one of few 2E rules we incorporated into our 1E games after 4E came out and we decided to go back. The problem with Dwarves and Halflings is they tended to be weak in combat, even when multiclassed with fighter. In the end most thieves in our games were Elves...

You are wrong. The guidlines for creating high difficulty encounters in the 2024 DMG state specifically: "Spend as much of your xp as possible without going over" A high difficulty encounter is anything more than a medium difficulty encounter, up until the limit which is the number noted as...