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Mainly because the only spell that fits would often be an improved version of a well known 9th level enchantment spell that was altered to have global/omniplanar unlimited number of targets with no save & permanent duration that was cast during chargen. Magic has a lot of limits though

You don't need to look any further than this thread or for examples of how it's done★. Player simply does it while throwing around statements like "well MyChArEcTeR is..."and complains that the GM is being too inflexible. I've even seen exchanges like this one I had very early on in 5e I want...

Worse is the tendency for these discussions to give players a free pass when they blatantly play as the second group where their role is to overcome at any cost while invoking the role play vre rollplay shield of that first group's role of tell a story to kneecap & paint the gm as an...

Bigger on the inside isn't exactly a high bar for a beginner spell given examples of somewhat readily available pocket dimension stuff

I'd bet a cocktail that the majority of those PCs were wizards in the days that gave extra points of int too :)

I fully backed &ran level up for about a year I guess it was. In a lot of ways I liked it better than 5e, but the amount of spreadsheets played by shameless minimizers masquerading as complex individuals wielding tired roleplay vrs rollplay arguments to get the benefits of that spreadsheet in...

But it's background not "most recent odd job". 5o years of commoner just recently turned to crime is either not an experienced criminal because they are drawing on their commoner roots or it's double dipping by taking two backgrounds to draw on both. The fact that backgrounds cover everything...

Is this a real question? Of course I came to these conclusions through experience. Also the fact that the settings did not change any of the rules to support their tone & themes is a big part of why 5e is so awful at supporting other play & campaign styles through the system's ongoing...

No. trivializing difficulty is one of the many things that the not at all flexible 5e does to actively resist other play & campaign styles. In some cases that's rather unforgivable because those play & campaign styles were among d&d's primary modes of play. It might be something to just shrug...

Yea but sometimes a story loses too much from a plot thread being simplified to a single point in a comparison. Babylon 5 had a habit of set plot threads unusually far ahead of their eventual interconnected ending or the fact that the comparison is full on Main Character being held up to a PC...

I know who they are and it's a terrible analogy, both are characters in Babylon 5. While Babylon 5ess a great series with a great story... It's also a series that started with all 4-5 seasons planned and written before it started filming or even casting in season 1 to a degree that would neeya...

Not really, you missed the important part The band I went to see wasn't even born 30 years ago. Coincidentally, the brightline I took has only been running about 5. "OSR" might not be a hotbed of innovation°, but 2024 d&d is just more of the same 2014. Innovation with new stuff today is...

Dunno, I took the brightline down to see BabyMetal back on 11/6 because rob zombie gave them a fairly public defending a few years ago & thought it was a pretty awesome concert even with the language barrier making their songs about as understood as the average Ramstein song.

Rock stations are pretty common here. In the event you live in some weird dead zone there is stuff like sirius with over 30 rock channels before getting into the subvarieties like [channelname] workout/party/deep cuts. While I certainly find it harder to fill a table for a nond&d game than...

That's a different topic from what was being discussed and there is a huge difference between deciding how much above or below the curve of expectations for magical gear on a PC by PC basis vrs aligning the stars for a PC to feel risk or nerfing the heck out of the PCs alone with their...

Easy... You start out reasserting that 5e doesn't try to force one particular style of gameplay with its mechanics. Move on to dismiss description of how it does that by declaring that someone cares too much about the thing in question while pushing for that one style of support it offers...

Your post is in conflict with itself.

@Maxperson You are demonstrating the other big reason why 5e enforces OneTrueWay of gameplay. Wotc never bothered with things like playeroptions:combat&tactics 3.5 unearthed arcana/PHB2 or similar. Because of that you have a situation where someone is leaping to express that 5e very much...

You really don't see how the near universal ability to basically ignore the dark barring this kind of tenuous edge case while being unhindered adding to removing from & carrying around an inventory charging straight into hammerspace superpower undermines a dungeon crawling adventure? Likewise...

That's not making the case that you seem to think it's making. If that's the case then there's no need for wotc to do more than repeat it instead of using it as an excuse to reinforce the merit of wotc's current "inclusivity review" as they did while calling darksun problematic in the earlier...