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Eve of Ruin is a very weak adventure, and the less said about 5E 2024 the better. That is to say, it's subjective.

You seem to be suggesting that if the GM did no pre-plan for every possible contingency, anything they decide turns into "railroading" because it is just placating their whims. This is not my experience at all, and in fact hard designing of possible outcomes is much more likely to result in...

Bad GMing solves itself.

I said "games rarely do that" not "I have no idea how I could go about it."

A -1 to Con doesn't have much effect on 15th level.

So I just realized that Nimble5E was a thing. That PDF is still available. Anyone who has used it: how useful is Nimble5E for playing 5E? Does it improve things notably? Does it create any unnecessary problems?

I mean how actual peak capacity works, for both mind and body, and as how we get older both begin to fail us even when our level of experience should see us through.

That is the theory, but it isn't reflected in any official module that I can recall. I don't think I have ever seen "And a character with x background automatically succeeds at this task" in an adventure from WotC.

It ain't the "WotC Investor Call."

Sure. That is what "rolling a 1" is in this instance. I was mostly thinking about how we don't generally have a good way to model "peak fitness" in RPGs. The numbers only go up. Also, I am kind of salty about the whole thing.

It goes beyond DCs and TNs, of course. One of the frustrating ones for me is level based encounter charts (not Dungeon Level based ones, but PC level based ones). What lives in that forest should be true no matter who walks into it.

Most things in life are not random. Vaugn did not "roll a nat 1" -- she went out there when she was not up to the task. Yes, she was an amazing athlete, but she is past her prime and did not want to accept that. You see that a lot in sport. It is actually too bad few games capture that part of...

I'm impressed. I literally can't think of a less satisfying, worse way to produce TNs. It embraces neither the fiction, nor the game mechanics. Bravo.

Wait. Isn't D&D OWNED by a toy company?

mmmmmmmm

Oh sure. Players LOVE that.

I agree witht his. I will take the 3.x lists of DCs over the loosey-goosey 5E categories any day.

If "compatibility" is just "slot in the Nimble version of this monster" then, okay, I guess. But I can do that literally with any system.

I don't know if that is true. Seems like there is definitely some changes happening, and we still don't have any idea what is on the horizon, which could be taken as evidence of schedule shuffling.

I wonder about that "5E compatible" claim. Eww.