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Then barbarians are in big trouble, and not just from monks. Witness: Available at level 1! Unlimited casting, no resource expenditure! Multiple attacks at higher levels, can be improved with invocations, AND it's ranged! Or how about this: Easily picked up by anyone at 1st level! Can be used...

You can! Five missiles at 5th level, one below the level where a monk starts doing Force damage. It's funny that you just brought up an example of making a class ability obsolete, in defense of not making a class abilities obsolete. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make anymore, or if...

First, you're the one who brought up PvP. This was a topic about fighting lycanthropes, when you said: And now you're changing goalposts. You were complaining about a monk's Force damage bypassing a barbarian's DR with: No one mentioned "auto win" until you did, just now. And in any case, how...

Having just finished reading Lore & Legends, in which all of these disclaimers are reproduced, I can testify that they became significantly less fun over time.

Uh, then you might want to check out what your cleric, sorcerer, wizard, etc. traveling companions are capable of. At 1st level, even!

It's possible; I don't read every thread. I would genuinely appreciate being pointed to examples of non-D&D-focused threads being disrupted by D&D proponents for the sole purpose of criticizing other games.

Reading between the lines, if you're equating these toxic Monopoly players to D&D players, and Carcassonne to -- take your pick of non-D&D games -- I don't buy it. I don't see a bunch of people coming into these threads for the sole purpose of trashing Pathfinder, Blades in the Dark, Call of...

I don't think there was anything significantly wrong with the Planescape set. In terms of setting, it was focused on Sigil and the Outlands, which I think was a reasonable choice given finite page count. But I think some folks have unfairly compared it to the entirety of the 2e Planescape line...

As another example, there's a well-documented history of errors in published revisions of Tolkien's works. For instance, every single version of The Lord of the Rings you've ever read has contained errors, the only difference between published versions being the number and nature of the errors...

The arcanaloth's 2014 hit points were artifically low due to the design thinking at the time, in which weapon damage resistance would compensate. They've learned the (obvious, in hindsight) lesson that it doesn't, and brought HP up to where they should've been. You're right on about the...

The 2014 Deception and Insight bonuses were errors; there was no way to derive them from ability scores and proficiency/expertise. (There were a number of these errors in the 2014 MM, many of which were fixed in errata, but not the arcanaloth's.) The change to Arcana is a surprise, though; they...

Based on published errata, you'd be objectively wrong about that.

Multiple attacks is not the same as 3e's iterative attacks. Aside from the time-wasting low BAB on successive attacks, the main problem was the Full Attack requirement to use the iterative attacks, which locked down movement and turned combat into a boring slog. Note that neither 5e (nor 4e)...

It has nothing to do with short memories; I think you're missing the real argument, which others have made in this thread. Obviously 5e owes a lot of its design to lessons learned from 3e and 4e. And it is, overall, similar to 3e in a lot of ways, but it's like a 3e designed in an alternate...

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