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I would think that if it can be given, it's not agency.

I tend to agree. It's a very metagame situation to involve "resource balance" answers, and as such, it tends to deflate what could be a good, dramatic narrative. That's why I wondered earlier if we as GMs could trust our players enough to carry the "consequences" of getting that favour...

I like this answer. It makes sense to me. Just for argument's sake though... Is this not an opportunity for the revived player (and the one who prayed!) for an extraordinary character turn, a massive development in the narrative of their story? Like, if we have the idea that this is cheating...

This is a perfectly good way to handle this, and my instinct is I'd probably go with something like it. But the best part of this thread for me is how it's making me question my instincts. So, here's a question for everyone participating: Is it possible, in the game you run, that the god of...

Wait, in your world there are no laypeople of great faith that pray to the god of healing?

May I ask why not? I don't believe a particular character's faith is necessarily measured in paladin or cleric levels...and assuming it's a world where there are active powers that have been known to have an effect on the world, why would it not happen? Don't get me wrong: I know gods...

SO much this. What's especially helpful about this explanation is that we see that there's no need for any bad attitude from the GM to come into play; we can get bad math rulings coming from GMs who genuinely want cool things to happen, but because they aren't good at those kinds of...

Since they own FF, that means they have access to the wonderful stuff from the Journeys in Middle Earth board game? Lots of stuff there to be mined for shows/movies, etc

While there's definitely summoning and such...the main heroes of the Belgariad use psionics. :) (runs for cover)

I think this is key. I think the priority of all the armchair designers here is to make a better game for the people they know that play it (their groups, friends, etc.) They want to make the already-played game better. I think WotC/Hasbro want to make a popular game. If it's good too...

And I think that might be the source of some peoples' complaints about 5e: That it attempts to be all those things means it doesn't do any one of them super well. Might explain the term I've heard thrown around as "everyone's second favourite edition." (I know it's some peoples' first fav...

I don't think it's as black-and-white as all that, though. For instance, I don't like D&D to do classic fantasy, but I really like AiME, which uses the 5e rules. It's also the hope that there can be some favourable changes to the game because the "D&D brand" makes it easier to find groups for...

Presumably it's also healthier to let go of confronting said complainers in every thread too?

Of course, it only makes sense; it's certainly not Stockholm Syndrome!

1) Are they present moreso than other versions of the game? I don't know. My instinct says that's probably true, but I haven't done a deep dive analysis to see. The fact that the 4e structure made a pretty accessible and popular board game series warns me to to just accept my above instinct...

I mean, the whole thread has just been the trading of assertions.

Sigh. Yes, of course "some." Yeesh! When I wrote "people", I was referring to the people that (at least seemed to be) the ones that @doctorbadwolf thought found it "hard to believe that most players find 5e easier to just sit down and play than nearly any other edition."

No. I doubt anyone is finding that hard to believe, especially with the "nearly" qualifier in there. But the question asked was: Is there something special about 5E that created this moment (of intense popularity)? And people just look at all the other factors and think that no, it wasn't the...

Yeah Maptool has that function.

Definitely something to hope for! Wishing you all the luck!