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I will agree not to continue engaging with you on this. Beyond this post, I won't respond to you further in the thread, unless you explicitly invite otherwise.

I would offer a slight correction: This "have to be top-tier" thing only applies in one direction, namely, the spellcaster picking up martial ability. Even then, different implementations handle it differently. The Blade Warlock basically has to invest half their character resources into it, a...

And yet, in 4e, the exact opposite was true. Ruthless personal optimization was significantly less efficient than teamwork and team optimization--to the point that there were several well-known team-synergy strategies, such as the Radiant Mafia. If players aren't willing to do it, maybe one...

And I just completely do not see that, at all, to even the tiniest degree. Show me the numbers, then I'll buy it.

Warning: Vote carefully, you can't change it later! Also, while this is categorized as "D&D 5e (2024)", it applies to both versions of 5e. I can't do "5e general" unfortunately. ((EDIT: Since session length has been a bugaboo, presume roughly once-a-week sessions of roughly four hours apiece...

6th level in 4e (campaign ended because GM had massive IRL family disaster to address) 11th level in 5e (LMoP/PaB; I know it was 11th because I got to use eyebite all of one time, and it was mostly useless because my targets were all immune to nearly all of its effects) Would be higher, but the...

Correct: they dissected the Warlord, divided it into tiny pieces, and then threw those pieces into the (four, separate) Fighter, Rogue, Bard, and Monk blenders. In other words, pretty much the exact opposite of what Mearls claimed. It isn't that the Warlord was a mix of Bard and Fighter. It was...

And yet ignoring it has led to many of the design things that personally bother you. Like silvery barbs. Yes, I'm going to keep bringing that up whenever you invoke "white room". Same goes for Twilight cleric and various other things that I know you dislike specifically for being unbalanced...

Why should I want to change your mind about something I agree with? Like I'm saying that slightly tongue-in-cheek...but honestly, even folks I disagree with on a lot of things, like Snarf, Zardnaar, Lanefan, Crimson Longinus, Micah Sweet...they clearly take the conversation seriously (most of...

Still baffles me that you think the Wizard starts off D-tier, but whatever. Beyond that, the Bladesinger looks pretty much exactly the same as it was before, I'm really not seeing major changes here. While I know homebrew solutions are much more problematic than most 5e boosters would like...

Again, this is you entering a discussion about PF1e and 5e, and then acting like folks are being weird or not listening when your responses about your game don't settle. I know the thread is categorized "D&D General", but the title says, "Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th...

Because there are many PF1e guns which have a higher misfire rate, and if you attempt to use a gun with which you are not proficient, the misfire range increases by +1. Which means that, when you become a more proficient gunslinger, you have more misfires each day, not less. Do you think the...

Ah, yes, the ever-so-wonderful "white room" argument, which is no argument at all. It's just a no-engagement dismissal, "you have nothing worth listening to so I'm not listening to you" response. It is a big deal. I've seen it be a big deal. You are telling me my personal lived experience is...

It ironclad should be what you look at. Because that controls the player's experience of misfire. Absolutely not. Because if you misfire, you literally can make your weapon EXPLODE. So...no, it really really really is not that it doesn't matter. For more complex weapons (misfire 1-2, even 1-3...

Full support on this project. I am happy to volunteer time on any combination of brainstorming, storyboarding, writing, editing/revision, and number crunching. I don't have much in the way of graphic design skill, but if there are ways I can support that, then full steam ahead. I think as a...

Let me put it this way. It was already classed as a "half feat" back when that wasn't how most feats worked, so in theory it was meant to be on the slightly weaker side. It let you pick any one of several very useful stats, which is already a boost to flexibility. And then it made Advantage...

I'm aware of the regression to the mean. I have no confidence that Mearls knows about such a thing. Mostly because I have no confidence that anyone working at WotC knows more than the most fundamental baseline concepts of statistics. And WotC isn't alone in this, to be clear. Paizo is just as...

Monty Python references are almost always forgiven, at least in my house.

I think the bigger claim here, and one that is very relevant especially in the context of books Mearls has helmed previously that....were not, shall we say, the best-received books at the time (e.g. 4e's Heroes of Shadow), is that this calls into question Mearls' judgment as a designer. More...

You will note I said, "It still baffles me that they removed Bloodied from 5.0." (Emphasis added.) Had I meant all of 5e I would have said "5e". I honestly couldn't remember if they had added Bloodied back to 5.5e or not, but to hedge my bets I presumed they had and only mentioned 5.0 as a result.