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In Germany D&D is the biggest TTRPG, too, but the competition is stronger. Germany has a native TTRPG called "Das schwarze Auge" (The dark eye The Dark Eye - Wikipedia ) that was a long time market leader but D&D caught up in the last years. Das Schwarze Auge is even more crunchy than Pathfinder...

Because people get used to it and now it is a Trope. Like I said in one of the posts: You can train people in general to accept more outlandish things. Also it is not about realism per se. It just needs to feel realistic enough. Especially things that are outside of the normal experience of most...

I only ever exchanged a life cleric in a campaign. It was during the lost mines and she just felt ineffective. Incombat healing is useless, out of combat we got enough rests. And for her to do any damage she needed to use her spellslots, because sacred flame is just bad. I exchanged her for an...

I think one other reason is, like my math shows, that 9 rounds of battle ate already enough to even things out on the DPR front. So 3 normal long fights or 2 longer fights. Because my table in the original Post shows a damage average. But if I would make a Diagram that would show damage output...

But that is actually quite strange. Maybe that is an American thing that the fighter is popular or I'm just a big outlier. I'm from Germany and in all my time playing D&D 5e (I started with that edition) I never even saw a fighter st the table. I saw some barbarians (but no more than one at a...

It is not a double standard, it is necessarily for people to enjoy works of speculative fiction that it needs some things that ground it in "reality". In order for the fantastical elements of a story even to be understandable, you need mundane realistic elements the audience can relate too. You...

You can willingly suspend your disbelief. But that can be made impossible by the fiction. Suspending your disbelief takes cognitive capacity - you need to get in the right frame of mind to enjoy certain Kindstod of movies, for example ornof you are very stressen or tired it can become a chore to...

I'm actually working right now on a redesigned wizard. I have the class and subclass design ready. And one subclass can cover all 8 subclasses of the PHB. The main design element is, that spells are divided into general spells, advanced (proficient) spells and expert spells. Any wizard can...

You are argumenting unfairly here. Verisimilitude means, that in order to accept the unrealistic parts, we need a grounding in realistic parts or the Suspension of Disbelief is destroyed. In Star Wars 2 they show how they get the clone troopers, they show an android building fabric and have...

That is a less complex solution and more elegant. I like it.

I mean, it would use up caster spellslots, so that helps balancing the game.

That's why I invented Gradual Gritty Realism rest rules: https://www.enworld.org/threads/long-rest-variant-my-gradual-gritty-realism-variant-rules.700415/ TL:DR: They turn essentially long rests into short rests that give back 10-30% of HP and Spell Slots, based on resting conditions. Long...

It is just an quick a d dirty example of what could be done. You just need one or more wounded threshholds above 0 HP that have mechanical consequence or healing above 0 HP during battle is meaningless.

The problem is also two fold. Other methods of preventing damage are better than healing, yes, but healing insid e combat also is useless when you want to retain your damage output. Characters are as efficient at 100% HP as if they were at 1% of their HP. But because healing is usually less...

While I agree on some level we are back to verisimilitude. You can't go completely unrealistic. For a lot of people it matters where the ships come from, because it helps understand the conflict and the stakes. Of course you don't need to explain war logistics or even have them when the war is...

That would be an interesting Variant. Instead of "borrowed power" Gods trough potions and rituals change the body and mind of their clerics to grant them innate magic - so Sorcerer Clerics. And everything they are deemed worthy they get a new potion of transmutation that grants more powers. I...

For the last campaign I DMed I created rules on how the players could become gods. First they need a divine spark - either from an ancestor or given by or taken from another god. In that campaign a (weakend) Godess was about to be captured and consumed by one of the Lieutenants of the BBEG, so...

I think the problem with the 1000 ORC example is that it is a white room scenario. We can proof everything we want with made up scenarios. So let's use real play examples: At my table right now I DM a seljammer campaign. The characters are resting in Plankstadt (Plankcity?) which is a bunch of...

Maybe the Ranger would be a better "battle wildeshaper" while the Druid can keep utility wildshape.

I'm totally for reskinning and all those examples would be allowed in my games (if it fits the campaign, but that's what session 0 is for). .