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Because we actually want people to play medics?

Man I hope the average 0-level character doesn't have more hit points than a 1st-level Wizard. That's just embarrassing.

I'm a heretic. I'd rather have AC be a function of your class and not even have armor rules. I mean, how many fictional heroes (the ones D&D tries to emulate, that is) are running around out there with no or limited armor? And increases to AC come from class levels, so a Fighter is going to...

Yeah, but then every support class that heals has to be highly mobile to get close enough to heal and tanky enough to survive inevitably becoming the target of incoming monster damage, becoming some sort of inverse defender*, since abilities to protect your healer aren't built-in to any class...

Honestly, the idea that someone with 10 Str and 20 Dex is an ideal archer bugs me. I know why the concept has been streamlined. I actually prefer a game where you don't need to invest in multiple ability scores to be good at archery (at least, if everyone is going to insist on point-buy). But...

I have no idea how many bad DM's there are out there. I might be a statistical outlier because I've met far more bad to mediocre DM's than good ones, lol. I will say though, that while I do let my players vote on things, especially my houserules, and I listen to their input, the times I've...

Well yeah, but the analogy breaks down- we don't even have public phones anymore!

I wouldn't mind that either. But that's not how the game is really built. Most of the classes that get good "I don't take damage at this time" abilities are second-line or even back-line types (Rogue, arcane casters with Shield or Silvery Barbs). You have to literally spec into it as a...

When people bring up Tolkien as an example of what fantasy they feel D&D should emulate, don't forget that at some point, even the Professor got tired of his characters having to forage for food everywhere, and just gave the party enough lembas to last the remainder of their journey!

It's greater than the scope of this thread, but ever since 3e, there's been this sort of class struggle with regards to the agency of players vs. the authority of the DM. You give players more agency, DM's gripe that their ability to run the game has been eroded. You give the DM more...

Ok so, let's say that, I don't know, 75% of DM's are good DM's who don't need to share authority because they're so good that their players trust them absolutely. And 75% of players are good players who can be trusted to play their characters correctly without looking for exploits and don't...

Well, when monsters can bring you from high hit points to 0 in a single turn, it's kind of necessary, or you quickly have a TPK. AC become irrelevant after awhile, I mean, when your CR 9's for example start looking like this: "Multiattack. The giant makes two attacks, using Flame Sword or...

I was about to mention my pick for best-designed class, but then I remembered that just mentioning it's name leads to edition wars. So instead I'll just leave a picture of an iconic warrior here.

Yeah as opposed to something that most of the time was useless. If you're bad at a saving throw, Indomitable won't help you. And it being 1/day as a high level ability? I suppose there's a school of thought that wants classes to have weak points or doesn't want to see "good at most saves" be...

Or alternately, give Clerics spells that have healing as riders. Like say, concentration 1 minute, every time the Cleric hits with a melee attack, one ally within 30' can spend a healing surge and regain hit points with a bonus equal to their PB.

x So what's going on in D&D worlds, where all humanoid races have brains with which to overcome these things, yet somehow, many of them are human-centric?

So as an experiment, I introduced an item into my 5e game somewhat based on the 3.5 Belt of Healing- the main difference being that the wearer can spend an action to spend one of it's 3 charges (regained after a short rest) to spend 1, 2, or 3 healing surges for healing. To my amusement, much...

It is interesting that you can easily dispense with any character role in a party but the healer with ease. I've seen parties with nary a spell caster wiggling their fingers, and parties lacking pure warriors. The way you tackle problems changes, but you can generally muddle along. Right up...

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