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I’m pretty sure they at least knew what groups they should end up in. Less convinced they knew what those groups’ goals would be.

It doesn’t help that most character sheets are laid out in a way that disguises the influence of proficiency bonus on most things. Having skills listed and skill bonuses pre-calculated next to them obfuscates how the mechanic actually works, and makes it look like skills are individual, fixed...

Well, there’s no one universally accepted definition of a game, but most people who study game design generally agree on a few common features of games. Most commonly agreed upon are a goal or objective, a structure, rules or restrictions, and an uncertain outcome. Also very common to...

It’s also the only known functional self-sustaining one in the universe.

And by that you mean they’re… what, impossible to create?

I agree that they aren’t games, but I don’t think they’re activities either. RPGs are game creation engines. You can use those engines to create games, or to create non-game activities, but on their own they’re not either.

I think Hypnotic Pattern is particularly egregious for this because there are no repeat saving throws. Most save-or-stun type effects allow the subject to repeat the save every turn and end the effect on a success. The few that don’t are the best-in-slot options for their level, because they...

RE: Upscaling blast spells, honestly I don’t think this needs fixing. I’m ok with casting spells that are natively higher level being more effective than upcasting lower level spells. Fireball is fine when you get it and gets worse at higher levels? Good! That means you’ll have a reason to want...

I don’t think the OP was actually seeking that information. Rather, they were using the question as a litmus test for whether or not the ENWorld community’s perspective around edition changes aligned with their own.

Yeah, regardless of whether it was a human or a machine that produced this article, it seems very likely to be based on assuming the tabletop game works the same way BG3 does.

It’s not just Commander. Designs have been pushing individual cards doing more and more things - enter triggers, cast triggers, attack triggers, generating various artifact tokens that can be sacrificed for additional benefits, not to mention bonkers stuff like Nadu and Vivi. Even in 1v1 magic...

I suppose. It’s an explanation of what he said that makes sense, but he didn’t say it himself, so it’s speculation. Reasonable speculation, but speculation.

Interestingly, I think this might explain what happened with Conjure Elementals, or whichever one it was that everyone was freaking out about in 2024 that scaled double before getting errata’d. It was, in essence, a new damage spell built from the ground up with modern understanding of the...

Ok, so I got to that part of the podcast, and… this isn’t what he said. He just said “we made a mistake.” Which, like… sure, I get that, but I’m still left wondering why, at the time, he said it was intentionally above the curve.

In their defense, we (the folks who playtested D&D Next) really stressed that as something we wanted to be possible.

We aren’t…

Exactly

I’m one of the folks who would normally argue the point, but it seems completely orthogonal to the actual topic

Would you be able to elaborate on that a bit more? I don’t quite understand what this means.

Oh! Ok, so he’s not saying that they didn’t intentionally overtune blast spells, but rather that their initial math probably lowballed blast spells too much, and so what they thought of as overtuning them at the time turns out in hindsight to have put their damage right about where it should be...