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I like the way MCDM did minions. They have hit points, for soldiers I would say around 15-20, however 1 hit kills them regardless of damage and any extra damage carries over to another one within reach or within range for a ranged attack So if your minion has 16 hit points and you do 1 point...

It wasn't too complicated IMO, it just sucked and wasn't very fun.

I firmly believe players want to play the characters they build. IMO if they did not want spells they would not play characters with them. - Note - I think you mean correlation does not mean causation.

I don't really see a problem with players choosing spells that make their character better, why restrict them to one lane when they can have both? The best offensive spells in most situations are control spells. That is not always the case but it usually is and there are powerhouse spells...

I've never really played pathfinder so I would not know. As far as D&D though I would disagree. D&D has changed a lot in the last 50 years. In today's game nearly everyone has spells. Not everyone plays a class with spells, but almost all of them have some sort of spells, whether it is...

I am not a big fan of "resources". I don't particular like constructs like Action Surge or Indomitable or Flurry of Blows. I have no problem with PCs doing that stuff, but it should not be "once a day" or "once a short rest" or "use a ki", it should just be at will. Meanwhile spells should...

Everyone should be able to swing a sword without it being a spell. Don't gate those kind of mechanics behind a class. Instead of having a class that can swing a sword and do nothing else (fighter), take those mechanics you would give to that class and give it to the other ones.

Whatever. Like I said originally in play your game is going to be unbalanced even if everyone has identical stats. That is the relevant point. If you think one character doing way better than another character in play is "balanced" then I am not sure what you are hoping to achieve with that...

For me Rangers need more arcane and explicitly magical focus than their current spell selection allows.

Exactly! So reducing that "mechanical bias" to zero does not improve the chance of a balanced outcome. Absolutely it does and I think I have said so on 4 separate posts on this thread, including one other post that was a reply to you. No they always matter. The difference between a 15 and...

The idea of balance is inconsistent with rolling dice and the rules and method of play for D&D and I said so when I first started talking about it on this thread some 10 or so pages back. You can design a game without dice or other random variables though, and with some houserules you can even...

If I was actually doing a new edition my first preference would be to completely get rid of non-casters. Every class should have spells as part of the basic class design instead of having to scrounge through feats, subclasses and races or worse making some silly rules so non-casters can be more...

Regardless of the effectiveness of the survey, I think they did a pretty good job overall with 2024 and it is much better than I expected it to be. I would say 5E is by far the best edition of the game, period. I was convinced they were going to break it with 2024 and what was going to come...

That is not what I put in my survey :p

I am ok with eliminating bounded accuracy, but only if difficulty, AC etc does not scale. In another words if you get rid of BA, accept that high level players always hit, they should always succeed on skill checks (if they have proficiency). Usually the only exception would be a very low roll...

I no longer believe this due to the new information that came to light. That link someone posted by Mike Mearls above (the only one on this thread who would actually know) indicates it was not dedicated players that took the survey; something I was originally willing to accept at face value but...

That is balance in a white room it is not balance in play and if imbalance in play causes problems at your table in play, equal ability scores will not minimize or solve it to any degree. It can, although the chance decreases rapidly with every roll. Ok so then you are fine if the game is...

If you take that at face value then you can't really conclude that it is "dedicated players" who took the surveys. D&D surveys had huge response rates. People were always eager to share their opinions. The gap between survey results and online discussion was vast. The fighter is a great...

I don't agree with this and the people on this board as well as the D&D influencers (all "dedicated") have wildly variant opinions on this. That is part of why I can't accept this position. There are people on this board that love 2024 and people that hate it, there are people that think they...

RAW Bladesinger extra attack and EK War Magic do not stack. PHB page 44: "If you gain the Extra Attack feature from more than one class, the features don’t stack." The way they worded this specifying "features" makes it pretty clear to me. Haste is a little trickier. From the Haste...