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Yeah, this has always made me wish they would drop the pretense and instead give each class a standard array. Unfortunately, it doesn't really work due to multiclassing. Well, also because the Internet would completely flip out if they had their precious illusion of balance taken away from them...

OK. My table wants the default style of play presented by the PHB. Oh, wait. The rest system in the default style of play presented in the PHB is kind of broken and multiple classes don't work well across the entire adventuring day outside of relatively narrow encounter day designs. Perhaps we...

And I'm saying you've allowed your bias to color your perceptions.

So then whatever the Fighter/Warlock/Monk wants is just? There can never be a situation where players of short-rest classes want to do something unreasonable or unfair? They always act rightly and nobly, without error or misjudgment, and should always be forgiven and given allowances, even unto...

That's because you're assuming the Fighter/Monk/Warlock is without fault. How do you know they're not going nova every encounter and then whining about needing to rest?

Or have travel days that have only one encounter in them. Mixed rest means the game only works well when you can do the rests between encounters, and there are a variety of reasons that DMs want to run adventuring days where that just doesn't happen.

Yeah, but that changes the style of play. We shouldn't be required to pick between a survival horror game that works, or a super-heroic game that works, or a heroic action-adventure game that doesn't work and is also the default. We've got a game where easy works and hard works, but normal...

Yeah, this matches my experience. People keep finding issues with the XP budget per adventuring day. If there's no time pressure, well then sure there's no reason not to short rest. But there's no reason not to long rest, either! Might as well nova every encounter and then long rest. It even...

It's not really about being non-cooperative. It's about evaluating and balancing the risk of taking a rest -- which technically isn't always there, but essentially it always is a consideration in the players' minds -- against the risk of that one PC not having abilities in future encounters...

It's unusual for us to have more than 1 -- really, it's unusual to have anything other than 1 -- with 0 being more common than 2. We haven't been able to get away from 1-4 Deadly to Deadly+ encounters, and that means we often end an encounter with one or more PCs totally expended so it just...

Overall I'm a fan of the changes to warlock. I think it's more like a duskblade, but I don't think that's wrong. I tried playing the class several times, and always found it too shallow to be much fun, and the class felt entirely dead as far as progression from level 4-10. It was very...

I think separating hit point recovery and ability recovery is one solution. I'm not sure what that really looks like in D&D, though. I doubt the player base would accept it. But I think that long rests are a bigger problem in general. What don't long rests fix? They're a virtual panacea...

Only applying to a few classes and subclasses is a major part of it, yes. 5e is the only time I recall our party ever having disagreements about resting. In old editions it was like: Fighter: How about we rest? Wizard: I'm fine to keep going. Fighter: Well, I'm at 10 hp. Cleric: And I'm out of...

Oh, yeah, there was a whole lawsuit against the publishers of RDR2 over the inclusion of Pinkterton, and a counter-suit. Eventually, it all got dropped. Supposedly it was just Securitas AB rattling sabres to get some of Rockstar's income. I knew them from union-busting stories as well as from...

Not everyone knows, but a lot of people do. The Pinkerton National Detective Agency is muscle for the primary antagonist of Red Dead Redemption 2, for example. That's the 8th best-selling video game of all time, beating out generation 1 Pokemon and falling just short of the original Super Mario...

I was just joking to a friend of mine that maybe we can't say, "WotC isn't going to come to your house and confiscate your books," anymore!

Not just anyone showing up. Someone from Pinkerton showing up. A company infamous enough to be the villain in media representations, with a history of actions that we'd probably expect from a private military contractor today. "Oh, they were not de jure threats of violence," doesn't really...

The others are welcome to chime in and disagree, but it's such a weak point to make that I don't believe anyone would make that their central point. All it's saying is, "but the 5e rules don't say that!" Yeah, the 5e rules don't say anything at all! That was the premise of the thread...

It's widespread around where I live, especially in the late 80s and early 90s. I'm not mad at the people who say it that way. Mispronouncing a word invariably means they learned a word by reading it (or the person they learned it from did). But it is a pronunciation that I find grating, so it...

You need to re-read the thread. I was giving the incorrect pronunciation. People around where I live often pronounce it like this word.