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I wasn't talking about rules being changed or new games being written. I was talking about why would I put the time and effort into learning a new game when I see no benefit from changing? I play with a couple different groups but we can only get together once a month and even that is...

Many of us do not have the luxury of time or desire from our friends to try new games. We also don't have much reason to do so when we already enjoy what we are doing. It sure sounds like you're shaming people who don't do things your way or enjoy the games you enjoy. I may not want to do...

He stated that he "absolutely believes" the game is poorly designed. That, even after praising the Superman movie for how well it's doing at the box office, the sales and continued success of the edition is apparently meaningless. Their dislike of the game is hardly news. Most important though...

The difference is that suddenly we have ogres made out of the world's most fragile glass. It makes no sense from an immersive in-world point of view to me or the majority of people I played with.

Your guess is as good as mine.

Successes and failures depend on the difficulty, it went up to 12 successes before 5 failures. Meanwhile the guidance in the DMG was to use skill challenges unless something was resolved by a single roll. "It’s not a skill challenge every time you call for a skill check. When an obstacle takes...

This comes off as really insulting "If you don't like something new, it's your fault ". I have no issues with change but see no value in change for the sake of change. Why can't we just accept that some people have different preferences? Because saying "Change is scary!" makes it sound like...

The dragon will likely die if you heavily, heavily stack the odds in favor of the peasants. Assuming commoner stats, make it a young black dragon, arm them with longbows. Perfectly positioned to all get shots off without losing a significant percentage each round. It could hypothetically happen...

Do you have any confirmation, any proof, that the studio heads relied on surveys to make their decisions? Because from what I've read they just look at what worked for their previous movies and tried to replicate the MCU. The Nolan Batman movies were dark ad gritty so that's what they pushed...

You think the peasants stand a chance against a dragon? One that would just fly down an obliterate them with a breath weapon? That's kind of the point of dragons in 5e, enough armed soldiers can still be a threat to most dragons, especially young dragons. But they're still a massive threat...

So let's get this straight. The Superman movie which is doing quite well is somehow not what people actually wanted to see? That the most popular TTRPG ever released that has exceeded expectations since day 1 is poorly designed? D&D may not work for you, but their goal for the game is sales...

What does that have to do with the price of tea in Kara-Tur? Dragons have always been a threat. Once again, and I'm getting tired of repeating, I have no idea what your point is.

Where did you get that conclusion? I literally stated "Meanwhile 5e has far lower numbers for AC meaning that lower level monsters can be a meaningful threat for longer." I think it works far better than minions. In the DMG they discussed using mobs for large numbers of low level monsters which...

No survey will ever be perfect. Meanwhile I think the success of 5e as compared to previous WOTC editions speaks volumes.

I'm saying that you are making unfounded assumptions and a weird interpretation of survey data. Some monsters have stronger versions, we've always had that. Meanwhile 5e has far lower numbers for AC meaning that lower level monsters can be a meaningful threat for longer. What we do have...

I'm not ignoring the prongs. They have no basis in fact. You're just making stuff up in order to make an illogical conclusion and then declaring that anyone that doesn't accept your unfounded assumptions don't know what they're talking about. Its not at all a convincing argument.

It's in the same section on how to run a skill challenge. Page 74, Running a Skill challenge, 3rd paragraph. "In a skill challenge encounter, every player character must make skill checks to contribute to the success or failure of the encounter."

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I see no reason to have multiple versions of the same monster, although it makes sense for some. If the characters are at a point where ogres are no longer a threat I won't use ogres. Then I guess any solution that doesn't agree with your...

Bb You're making assumptions about what people want. I don't care about the first, if I was concerned about my ability to add I wouldn't be playing D&D. Every edition has always succeeded at the second, the dramatic increases in numbers we had in 3 and 4e meant that lower level monsters were...

The primary anachronism is that magic works, it's reliable and widespread enough to have standardized spells and schools. Yet we still expect it to resemble the real world.