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Then I will simply stop replying to them.

Well I was trying to cut off at the pass the everpresent refrain of "WELL IT WASN'T PERFECT REMEMBER NEEDLEFANG DRAKES? REMEMBER LEVEL 1 DRACOLICHES?!" Because yes, I have had to fend off those sorts of """responses""" for literal years, and thus have learned to bake in the things which...

I'm well aware of your flagrant anti-4e bias. There's no need to bring it up again. I have. They're awful. No. 5e "blew up" because: It got incredibly lucky with the zeitgeist of the time embracing 80s nostalgia and specifically embracing D&D as a thing that was in vogue It landed at the...

I mean the buy-on has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of either version of 5e. Like genuinely it is completely irrelevant which is better and which is worse. The market for people who were considering buying D&D 5e, but didn't for a whole decade, is pretty damned slim. So outright...

The number of times I've been told by actual GMs on this very forum that 5e encounter-building rules are inferior to outright guessing, tells me my experience is at least slightly more universal than yours on this subject.

So you're now giving every spellcaster an enormous boost in what it's allowed to be, while nerfing anything that isn't a spellcaster? I mean, if you want to be obvious about it, there are more straightforward ways, but. This is open and unabashed caster favoritism. Casters are now simply...

Considering I'm quite confident that would completely exclude all spellcasters from 5e, how do you expect to run this, like...ever? In fact I'm pretty sure even the Fighter isn't 5-or-fewer pages. Each subclass is at least half a page by itself!

That is the very thing in contention though. If you are chronically rewriting the rules under the players' feet, and merely informing them after the fact "oh yeah by the way, today I've decided that initiative is done with a deck of cards, I know it was popcorn last week but popcorn is too...

There isn't any. Which was the point I already made above. It isn't a game. It's "Dance, My Playthings", but incognito, because people tend to react badly when you just say that outright.

I mean, it's worth noting that 4e characters were specifically designed to be competent, but to never have too many powers overall. You only get 2 at-wills (3 for humans), and then a rotating set of no more than 4 encounters and 4 daily powers from your class. Anything else is a bonus you...

"Very strongly implies" is not what is demanded of Fighters though. Fighters have to have ironclad, unequivocal proof. The same standard should apply to everyone. Either the Fighter having wuxia powers means that wuxia powers have implied justification--just as Wizards copying scrolls "very...

I don't really understand what that has to do with what I said. This sounds, to me, like a demand that any new edition actually be well-tested, rigorous, and serious about delivering systems that genuinely and fairly reliably work. Which is something I absolutely want to see. It doesn't seem...

Without throwing it.

They do? Where are they? Why do they get no representation? Because as far as I can tell, no such thing has been represented in D&D--not even 4e--outside of the 3.5e Book of Nine Swords content. That's the one and only place such things have ever been presented. What have I missed?

Then I sincerely apologize for misunderstanding you. What did you mean by references to old school play, in the context of what I had said previously? That is, prior to the misunderstanding, the conversation was: Because, as I was given to understand, you were agreeing to the claim that the...

Okay. When has that ever been true for the D&D Wizard? When has it ever lifted even a finger to show the academia from which these powers derive and to which these powers are directed? Or to show the hermetic mysteries and transcendental enlightenment Faustian archetypes sought? Why is the...

Because writing "wizard" or "sorcerer" is so diegetic.

That's not what I said. You specifically spoke of rules that don't work and need to be replaced by the user, because that's what needed to be done before. Literally have another active thread right now where that's the topic under discussion. That people wanted the old school rules to suck...

Your hatred is showing again.

Given the nasty things I was, and continue to be, told about my own preferences as a result of this? Grace has its limits.