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You know I'm also unhappy with the change to Counterspell but I feel like this is an unwarranted level of salt over it. 😅

Since people are giving more specific thoughts: Species should have been Ancestry, but the options are fine. I like that Cthonic and Abyssal tieflings are core, I like having multiple Goliath lineages even if some of them have off-putting pastel color schemes. Not a fan of how backgrounds have...

Seriously. The Ricochet weapon action in TOTV had me considering making a sling-based fighter but then I realized that 1d4 damage just wasn't worth it.

I've seen way more PCs die in 5E than I ever did in 4E.

Surely that can't include Coutnerspell.

Yeah it would have to be built from the ground up with these things in mind, including the ability to disable things from the compendium that you don't want.

What if I say they have notes about how they did it but they're the indecipherable, idiosyncratic scrawlings of a singularly gifted savant? I get wanting consistency but there are some things PCs just shouldn't have access to. Just as there are PC abilities that NPCs shouldn't get, if for no...

Makes me wish there was a generic 5E VTT engine where I could take a grab bag of what I like from every version of the game.

Everyone who gets called out and shut down for abuse tries to make a comeback eventually. Sometimes they even succeed. This doesn't surprise me.

In terms of highest proportion of good sub classes I would say it's actually Tasha's Cauldron. Sure it has the bonkers Cleric subclasses but it's not an accident that so many of the others ended up in the 2024 PHB.

I wasn't being snarky, was pointing out that a high difficulty encounter has a chance of wiping a party even in 5E. There's no point in making rules for anything higher because at that point so much depends on planning, luck, and whether or not the party knows when discretion is the better part...

Oh my god is it 2008 again?

If I were rating it on art and presentation it'd get a 9 or 10 but as I must consider the rules, I gave it a 7. For comparison, I'd give 5E 2014 a 6 if the core books were all we had. MTOF, VGM, and Xanathar's Guide were where the game really came into its own IMO.

Incidentally, this is one of the reasons I think WOTC should revisit good ideas from 4E more readily in future: the fans that reflexively hate it and all of its trappings are no longer half the customer base. Given the proliferation of great OSR games, they're probably not even a quarter.

This is true. Honestly I just kind of prefer the Legendary Archmage from @Nixlord's MME3 to either the 2014 or 2024 Archmages.

I agree with this in general but I do have to wonder about the long-term effects to both game and lore of the specific implementation. Arcane Burst as depicted in the monster manual is an absurdly powerful ability compared to any PC-facing at-will power, able to do 108 damage a round without...

As it does here. It says "One or more" party members.

I think if I were running The Lost City I'd move the bulk of the action to the City itself and make the pyramid just the entrance. Edit: Ie spread the various rooms of the pyramid over various locations in the city. Have the King and Queen buried elsewhere less obvious to dissuade looters...

Shardminds weren't from 4E Dark Sun, they were from Players Handbook 3. They came up here because I mentioned adding them as a faction in my 5e Dark Sun game.

Okay but you understand why a game with PVP balance (IE power parity with the outcome based entirely on skill & luck) is not the desired goal for a PVE game? Balance is relative. Like those plastic birds that balance entirely on their beaks.