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At levels 1-3, you don't face monsters with 5HD that often. If they aren't bunched together, well, then you dominate only *half* the encounter while the entire party does fight the other *half*. When there are 8 kobolds, and the mage takes down 5, and the other 4 PC take down the other 3, then...

Some other classes have similar expendable resources. Monks have "ki", Samurais have "resolve", and Gunslingers have "grit". I think it's a great way to represent game mechanics. Mike Mearls' Iron Heroes also work that way

Treasure and Horn of Abbaddon. Preparing for the game in advance (I'll start in summer), I've found something that I might be understanding wrong. The treasure in Horn of Abbaddon is quite cool. But, during their villanious advance, they get quite a big hoard of gold. They have a TON of...

Somebody should explain that to the doctors, because they keep saying to pregnant woman that they should stop smoking. ;)

In my analogy, D&D is not Chocolemon, but Icecreams. D&D 5e is Chocolemon. D&D is icecream and has a lot of flavors. Vanilla BECMI, strawberry AD&D, 3.0 chocolate, 3.5 Lemon. Paizo sells chocolate and lemon icecreams, with the OGL. Wizard tried a new flavor in 4e, Beef Steak, which was...

It also limits the ability of other competitors to copy and clone 5e, assuming it is successful. Which is what, in my opinion, WotC wants to do Not exactly. It's like if you are going to build a new ice cream flavor: Chocolemon, as tasty as chocolate and as sweet as lemon. You don't want other...

But then it's irrelevant. If you make Dex for elves 7-18 (or even 10-18), then for the most part, elven players aren't more dextrous than human players. Which is not bad per se, since it's a valid assumption. However, that means race has no influence in abilitie scores at all, in a practical...

I'm going to make this my final post about the issue, because this is running in circles. That's true. That's wrong. I didn't operate under that assumption. I even said "they might be wrong, or they might be right". Simply putting a game under OGL doesn't necessarily cause it to become a...

I don't think that changes the statement. The wizards did dominate, at low levels, with sleep. In some corner case situations, that wasn't true. But exceptions to the rule don't make the rule become false. For the vast majority of the encounters, the Sleep dominated. Actually, in AD&D2e, our...

Oh, I wasn't trying to imply that 5e apparent solution is better. I was just denying that 3e "solved" that problem. It didn't, except for medium to high level. Once you have level 10, and 13 ranks, yes, "training" matter more than "ability". In low levels, that's not true. A high ability...

I think you are right, and that's the problem. For a lot of guys, they don't want a game that includes X part of their favourite edition. They want a game that *does not* include X part of their hated edition. For example: If 5e has vancian magic, and healing surges, a lot of 3e fans will hate...

Isn't it a bit weird that you are bored of the people making 5e, but love a game made by Robert J. Schwalb?

Mostly so, but not completelly: "beguiling tongue" (warlock utility 2, +5 Bluff or Diplomacy) or "words of deceit" (wizard utility 10, +5 bluff or recharge a charm power) are examples. But mostly you are right, yes

True. The difference is that, while with OGL they can, or not, have a Pathfinder, without OGL, they CAN'T have a Pathfinder. Sure. They *can* try to avoid that happening again (and they might be sucessful, or not), or they can avoid the OGL (and then that won't happen again, ever, no matter of...

It wasn't that way in D&D 3e either. Not until your czar wizard went out of the palace and killed a few goblins, so he took extra levels and the ranks started to shine over ability. Maybe your Cha 10 czar wizard should have more ability dancing, talking to people and playing the flute than the...

the problem with that, is it assumes there are no clumsy elves in the world. It might work in the old days of D&D, were everything was archetypical (and Tolkienesque), and thus elves were, all of them full of grace. Current tendence is that races gravitate toward certain abilities, but there are...

Fair enough. We don't know the opposite either. We can only make conjetures. Mine is this: Games do not need OGL to be successful. AD&D, D&D 1, Runequest, Vampire, and several others, were successful without OGL. Games do need a good system/gameplay to be sucessful. There are a lot of OGL...

As the key encounter in a level 1-3 adventure? No, not ussually. 99% of those adventures have goblins, kobolds, orcs and other similar creatures as key encounter (the key word, is key). Few published adventures (to use as a reference) have the key encounter with plants or oozes, and those with...

Sure, it is possible. They can try, and it can work, or fail, however. No. I stated that they saw what happened, and will NOT release the new as OGL (imho and all that jazz), to AVOID it happening again. You should see the difference by now. A is necessary for B. In this case, OGL is necessary...

Bad analogy. A kitchen without gas stove isn't very useful in general. Several RPG have been successful without an OGL. AD&D or Vampire te Masquerade were, and didn't had OGL. I claim 3e would had been equally sucessful without OGL. I don't know about you, but I bought it when it was released...