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The relatively high con bonuses everyone knows today didn't come about till 3.x. Getting crit with a high roll on 2-12 was still a huge bite from a tank and could easily crush the Squishies outright.

I've more than once seen 5e players derail the session about monster stat blocks and such for a bit demanding how it was capable of doing things it did then sometimes it later turns into a huge drama storm between the players when they later quit because "monsters are cheating" while trying to...

I very much agree. There's a huge difference between that kind of plot armor style item working around the system and something like the 3.x holy/unholy/blessed/defiled weapon properties where the wielded needed to be/not be a specific alignment. One is kinda cool and nuanced in ways that left...

You overrate the risks back then. That bold bit is only half of what it brought. It also expanded the tactical grid mechanics previously in player options: combat & tactics so melee on both sides got sticky in ways dangerous to ignore while casters on both sides were extremely vulnerable to...

I think that needing to give a monster specific powers to overcome an excessive level of risk mitigation buiklt into the system speaks volumes about how fardeath saves & trivialized healing massively overdo things with awful cascade effects on play. Death at zero should have been the default...

I think that The very hungry rust monster shows why a pet monster pokemon/Digimon/etc style thing would cease to be d&d feeling almost immediately. It could probably manage pretty well with the MC is a standard monster genre that is pretty common in light novels and occasionally anime...

I'm going to second @The Firebird 's sentiment with My Experience being fairly similar but holy heck does it lay bare and shine a nuclear floodlight of death on the systemic level problems in 5e

I'm not sure what you are attempting to convey here but the double meanings in Kyoka's poem about cups probably says more about the downsides of what happens when power scaling goes awry in ways similar to power creep crashing into an ongoing campaign Awakened from peaceful sleep. By Jōkisen...

For someone who couldn't accept that players of SR classes are even capable of having an unreasonable level of rest frequency expectations a couple pages back you undercut any weight your position here might have had by framing the scale as as if the choices are with nothing between the two...

The problem is obvious... Look at the specifics. Wotc was talking up PC power creep. It doesn't matter if monsters are strong enough to provide an appropriate challenge to PCs not built under a deliberate extreme unoptimized baseline now when the goal is deliberate PC power creep as a...

It's amazing watching people defend power creep as not being there after wotc themselves talked up power creep as a deliberate and desirable goal to plan for a while back.

Do you often see players deploying counter spell or shield as part of an a Nova? I admittedly can't see how either would contribute to a Nova loop powered 5mwd simply because they are not needed when a significant fraction of the players at a table are doing similar in service to the 5mwd you...

https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/2190885-warlock You did not look at what happens in tier3 before asking what is the problem in tier 3 where they have 3 5th level slots per rest plus all of their ADEU abilities . Also you literally quoted a link to Crawford talking about hitting the 5th level...

Scale up the level and watch the disaster that occurs into &: through sayy tier 3 when that warlock gets to push the fifth level button over and over and over again while the monk generally has more ki than they could use on that cycle. They didn't fix the design problem and did nothing about...

That bold bit of internet wisdom being endlessly repeated just exacerbates the problem when players feel their monk or warlock requires a short rest after every fight come hell or high water no matter the doom clock stakes knowingly being lit on fire by those unreasonable expectations. That...

No you fail to meet the bar or moving your subjective table experience to objective discussion of the rules. The original claim was that the failure to wrench the malicious compliance ADEU based short rest warlock and monk over to the attrition based adventuring day model while failing to...

I went looking for the exact text of the new resting rules on my phone to show ho your claim is mistaken or flatly weong.and realized that it's not needed because you have a higher bar to meet for your claim to be anything but anecdotal at best..when players start acting like this there's not...

You missed the point. Players get to FORCE 5mwd loop gameplay on an unsupported gm because some folks liked 4e's At will Daily Encounter Universal. It's practically malicious compliance with the attrition based model at the system level from a designer. The new edition failed at both fitting...

The new NOVA->LETSTAKEASHORTREST->REPEAT monk & warlock continuing the 2014 effort of forcing ADEU class design into an adventuring day attrition based game without correcting the rest rules to support the GM when players feel they are entitled to an ADEU based 5mwd loop is one of biggest...