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so… one monster out of the MM with 500+ in it? ;)

I like the idea, esp. since I like their Doom system to begin with

but it doesn’t, you are not spending your first round casting it already, you do something else, and in, say your third encounter, you have enough points to cast it in round one Yes, it is a gamist element in that it was designed to achieve a specific result in the game mechanics, that does not...

well, the Fighter does not get much else, while the Wizard keeps up for free and then has their spells on top. Before there at least was some attempt at balance

starting at level 11, and just barely barely, with the gap starting to widen from level 13 on up, so for levels that are mostly ignored...

what about the Death Domain Cleric then? To me they are in the DMG because the DM can decide to not allow them as they are villain class options (per their header).

most people do in fact grow out of D&D. You can of course keep playing, the current version is supposed to be what teens want however. You can enjoy it despite that, or play something else. You can even keep playing the version you played as a teen

we have no way to actually measure this, if anything the declining 1e sales tell a different story

it’s not because you are old, it’s because what you want from the game and what young players want is not the same. The game has evolved and not everyone wants to / is keeping up with that development

those people were correct though…

I am not sure that the failure of 4e means that we can draw this conclusion, there was more ‘wrong’ with 4e than the tight balancing. From the dry descriptions to the setting changes, it feels like 4e tried its best to be as different from prior editions as possible, and it kinda got the...

we have milestone leveling, maybe we should have milestone short and long rests too…

sure, but I would prefer to not always have to find reasons for why it might not be the best idea, and want the players to have a mechanical reason to push on

that would be true for any baseline and degree of ‘tightness’ As I wrote it is not just about that anyway. While I would prefer somewhat tighter math, there definitely is a limit to that, esp. with an attrition model, and I prefer that over an encounter based one. The real goal is to not make...

it’s not like you can opt out of the rest based approach of D&D either, the only difference is that in D&D taking a rest is always the right answer whereas in DS! it depends on the situation

my understanding is they don’t, you decide on which option you pick for a campaign based on its style

tight rules do not mean things have to be challenging, it just means they are pretty predictable 6-8 encounters per day does not feel like a combat-light story. If people can ignore that, they can also ignore 3-4 better controlled encounters and either reduce the number or challenge as needed...

no idea what their current sales numbers are. I was not interested in most of their recent offerings, but that means nothing to WotC

well, then I hope their other market research does its job

I did not say they should not poll, I agree they should.