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It still baffles me that they removed Bloodied from 5.0. Like...I know it's got 4e cooties on it, but it's useful. Like it's legitimately one of the most useful, and more importantly SIMPLE, mechanics to come out of 4e. You'd think if they kept anything, it'd be that and the way 4e did critical...

Frankly, whether this is or isn't done in 13A official rules is kind of irrelevant to my argument. I've never--not once, ever--in 12+ years of playing 5e, had a GM who even did what you describe here. Never. You use your spell. You'd better hope you waited long enough. At least with Hussar's...

I'm aware it isn't there yet. My point is that 5.5e, as it exists, cannot pivot to being there when "yet" arrives. I'm "bearish" on 5.5e. I expect it to survive about four years from initial publication (so ~2028) before we start hearing rumors of the new edition. If they arrive earlier...

I personally would not call it a WotC setting though. It's also not exactly a "5e" setting in its worldbuilding, because that worldbuilding is actually built off of one specific prior setting, with a dash of another: specifically, it's built off of 4e's Points of Light setting, with a dollop of...

To the best of my knowledge, there's only one such adventure--and it's actually set in Tymanther, meaning, the only major dragonborn representation we're getting is in the nation where dragonborn live.

I mean, there is one. It just came from The Edition That Must Not Be Named.

Okay. So you go all in for cheeseburgers. You make ten billion cheeseburgers. They sell pretty well for a while. Cheeseburgers are popular! And then when people start wanting something else, what can you do when your entire infrastructure is built around selling cheeseburgers, cheeseburgers...

No. They were constrained by "at least 70% of the people yelling at us must be happy with every. single. option. or it's not going to get printed." That--that right there--is the recipe for Unflavored Oatmeal editions.

Which is completely unlike 5e, at least for literally 100% of games I've played. Even the actually good 5e GM I have does not disclose HP totals until it's of the form "agh, it has ONE hit point left!!" or the like.

Can they? I am not trying to threadcrap here. I'm genuinely questioning whether it is possible to construct a setting that both has an identity of its own, and is also fully "the 5e setting". Because the whole point of 5e was to have as little individual identity as possible--to not be any...

I mean, that means it was on purpose. They just didn't specifically set out to do that. They clearly had vision for what 5e would be, more than once, but steadily ceded more and more and more ground over time. That's why they surrendered the playtest Sorcerer/Warlock. That's why they abandoned...

Personally, I preferred 13A's Escalation Die. You can take the risk of going nova on the first round....but it's a big risk and a bunch of your most powerful stuff probably won't land. Or, you can wait to deploy the big guns for when you have the big bonuses...when things will be less efficient...

I'm with the Stew on this one. Elven Accuracy is uniquely overpowered in a way other feats aren't, because it tinkers with fundamental game mechanics in a genuinely unique way. Nothing else changes how advantage itself actually operates.

Where is this "every possible value" coming from? That isn't at all entailed by this. I am confused as to what that even means. And why would this make species the "least significant aspect"? I specifically said I like species that include clear, distinguishing features. Like dragon breath. Or...

Oh, most certainly. It is an improvement over the idea that because you're an elf, you 100% always have one specific culture and never anything else. Yes, this makes culture less unique. That is completely intentional, and as long as it is done knowingly and judiciously, it won't ruin...

100% the same for me. The frustration and constant, draining effort of dealing with all the fallout, over and over and over, of constantly disengaging myself from the story and character so I won't feel any emotions about it, of keeping the game at arm's length...it both sours the joyful...

For my part, it's just...I have seen so, so, so many instances of "but it's what my character would do!!!!" as a crap-awful excuse for crap-awful behavior from someone trying to weasel their way out of there being consequences for being a jerk to their fellow players. And It's worth noting, a...

Well, to give you a good example of a background I felt was missing from 5.0, and which hasn't been matched in 5.5e yet to the best of my knowledge, one that I picked up from ENWorld itself. "Academy Graduate"--the idea that the rich and powerful send their kids to good schools where they hobnob...

And I do not.

There will be thousands, yes. Is it useful to have thousands of them as options? Or is it useful to articulate relevant, interesting, evocative ones, and then carve out a clear space for "If none of these describe YOUR character, this is where you draft your own." It is not bad to have...