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Everyone who gets called out and shut down for abuse tries to make a comeback eventually. Sometimes they even succeed. This doesn't surprise me.

In terms of highest proportion of good sub classes I would say it's actually Tasha's Cauldron. Sure it has the bonkers Cleric subclasses but it's not an accident that so many of the others ended up in the 2024 PHB.

I wasn't being snarky, was pointing out that a high difficulty encounter has a chance of wiping a party even in 5E. There's no point in making rules for anything higher because at that point so much depends on planning, luck, and whether or not the party knows when discretion is the better part...

Oh my god is it 2008 again?

If I were rating it on art and presentation it'd get a 9 or 10 but as I must consider the rules, I gave it a 7. For comparison, I'd give 5E 2014 a 6 if the core books were all we had. MTOF, VGM, and Xanathar's Guide were where the game really came into its own IMO.

Incidentally, this is one of the reasons I think WOTC should revisit good ideas from 4E more readily in future: the fans that reflexively hate it and all of its trappings are no longer half the customer base. Given the proliferation of great OSR games, they're probably not even a quarter.

This is true. Honestly I just kind of prefer the Legendary Archmage from @Nixlord's MME3 to either the 2014 or 2024 Archmages.

I agree with this in general but I do have to wonder about the long-term effects to both game and lore of the specific implementation. Arcane Burst as depicted in the monster manual is an absurdly powerful ability compared to any PC-facing at-will power, able to do 108 damage a round without...

As it does here. It says "One or more" party members.

I think if I were running The Lost City I'd move the bulk of the action to the City itself and make the pyramid just the entrance. Edit: Ie spread the various rooms of the pyramid over various locations in the city. Have the King and Queen buried elsewhere less obvious to dissuade looters...

Shardminds weren't from 4E Dark Sun, they were from Players Handbook 3. They came up here because I mentioned adding them as a faction in my 5e Dark Sun game.

Okay but you understand why a game with PVP balance (IE power parity with the outcome based entirely on skill & luck) is not the desired goal for a PVE game? Balance is relative. Like those plastic birds that balance entirely on their beaks.

I mean yeah, they only appeared as PCs in one book in a relatively unpopular edition. But I'd never heard of them being actively disliked due to their appearance.

...what else would High Difficulty mean? If the encounter is guaranteed to kill off your PCs then it's not high difficulty, it's impossible.

Honestly if I were just running a Dark Sun one-shot I would probably use A5E since it has the armor material rules by default and has a system for hybridizing ancestries to make Muls. Though now that I think about it, I don't think A5E has an official Goliath/Half Giant. Edit: I guess the...

Which is ironically their own damn fault because of the OGL crisis and the other bad behavior of the past several years.

It failed to make Daddy Hasbro happy but it found and audience and wasn't unprofitable. It just wasn't profitable enough for the rapacious jaws of a megacorp. MCDM, Lancer, and others have proven there's an audience for that style of gameplay, even if it's smaller than the blue ocean 5E is...

I had never known they were unpopular, TBH. They were at least popular enough to get multiple 5E homebrew conversions. I always thought they looked neat and I think the AI one there looks pretty generic by comparison.

I really don't want to rehash edition war nonsense. My point wasn't even that 4E was a resounding success (obviously it wasn't) but that every edition of D&D, even the controversial ones, are a response to common complaints about the previous one. The 4E designers weren't just designing in a...

Basically. WOTC didn't think anyone would want the Gamer Girl Bathwater of 3rd Edition and Paizo saw a golden opportunity. :ROFLMAO: