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Your opinion is noted and acknowledged. If only you offered the same courtesy. Also, your strawman attempts to discolor what I actually said is uncool. I never said anything about anyone having "poor taste". A taste differing from that which the devs intended? Sure. Absolutely. On its face. But...

Everyone knows an RPG ruleset depreciates in value by half the second its driven off the lot...

Agreed. For example, I've made it clear numerous times that I do not agree that the beastmaster is "mechanically awful". Nor, IMO, is it in need of "DM fiat to make worthwhile again." I've played one. Seen them in play by others at the table. Seem fine to me. Do I get why some people think they...

In a recent homebrew setting I developed for an ongoing campaign, skyships were the purview of the Dwarven Sky Baronies. These "mountain dwarves" lived up in a string of massive, mountainous earth motes (they weren't always in the sky, but once their ancestral mountain homes sent skyward in a...

<shrug> You and your buddy can call whatever you like whatever you want. That doesn't mean my observation, WRT what motivates you to always make extremely combat optimized characters, any less accurate. Your aversion to ever having a character die leads you to make one that can more than hold...

Is that same "outside and neutral view" seeing the same negative implications from his own posts in the other thread(s) to which I was referring? You know, the ones which lead me to connect those two dots? The ones where he goes into great detail on how imperative it is he be able to play an...

One of the things about having a less mechanically deep system is that there's more than one potential winning strategy.

I think for the next 5e campaign I run, I'm just going to let my players pick their stats. As long as they don't go higher than 15 (pre-modifiers). That way they still have room to grow, and meaningful decision points, as they gain ASIs. Then again, maybe I won't even saddle them with that limit.

According to this forum, not playing 5E in a mechanically effective manner is cheesy to some people.

Is there a question there? I made a statement of fact. I made no comment on said fact. I connected your need to have such a character with your desire not to have said character die. Those seem closely related to me. Is that insight somehow controversial? <shrug>

I'm confused. I don't believe I said anything in my post that would lead you to ask that question. Were you, perhaps, being rhetorical? Or maybe you meant to direct that at someone else?

This sentiment may be related to your opinions in the other thread, where you've expressed a need to have kickass characters with which you can pwn encounters with masterful ease...

All I do every session is look for excuses to use my shadow monk teleport!

The dwarf champion fighter in our current OotA campaign was stricken with madness resulting in him believing he was his ally, the human (dex-based) paladin. The condition is so strong that the dwarf has taken on, and answers to, the paladin's name. He goes out of his way to emulate him in every...

Saying things like, "Fighters, Rogues and Monks have access to arcane magic," is a bit disingenuous, AFAIC. That's only true if the player of that class locks in the choice to do so, by taking one of three subclasses available, at the expense of the others. It's not like someone who is playing a...

Not sure how you've come to that analysis. But my ~2 years experience playing 5e has led me to believe differently. Hrm. So why are you not adapting to 5e then, rather than trying to shoehorn your previous system optimization assumptions and strategies into this one?

Maybe I'm misjudging your previous posts, but it seems DPR is *the thing* you find fun. Elaborate on how the most DPR focused character you've managed to come up with would be boring for 10 levels. I'm genuinely curious what has lead you to believe that.

Also, I want to address this. What makes you think I'm not effective in combat? I never said that. All I said was that I don't deal the damage seen from the paladin or fighter. I never said I wasn't effective. We just don't equate "effective" with "DPR". My character has plenty of useful combat...

Did you miss the part where warlock is only one of the three classes my character is taking? How many invocations do you think I'll get? [Answer: Eventually three. Which will be the Book one.] Sacrificing oodles of utility for a minor impact in combat is not what I call a "small price". But...

Are you sure? ;)