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Functionally irrelevant. At its core, 5e is a neotrad game based around demonstration of character concept, not player skill. If a player isn't able to demonstrate their character concept effectively, as a GM, you give them a bit of an assist. I'm the most skilled "operator" of the 5e rules...

For the record, this is a well-done post that communicates the drawbacks of the algorithm clearly. I appreciate you taking the time to do this. Other posters could do well to reflect on your method of conveying criticisms clearly and with a minimum of unnecessary rage.

I'll always upvote a Phineas and Ferb reference.

I'm a rando on the internet, it would be pretty silly to trust my gut opinion.

The clarity to recognize that this is something you have much more of an emotional engagement with than I do, and I mostly posted here because your initial presentation of your opinion was SO strident that it made me want to reflexively disagree with you. I still don't actually agree with your...

Venting outrage, then. Much like the DLSS 5 filter, I appreciate the improved clarity. :)

If you think your militant approach to this topic is winning hearts and changing minds, I have to inform you that it isn't working nearly as well as you might think it is. If your goal is simply to vent your outrage, then you do you, of course.

If your belief is that the designers who worked on the left-hand image didn't wish they had the tools to create the right-side image with real-time rendering, my gut feeling is that you're mistaken.

Sure, why not?

Obviously, until it's released into the wild we can never be sure; there will of course be situations where the technology isn't helpful or actively obscures the original artistic intent. How often it occurs, and how negative the impact is in those specific use cases, will be something to be...

The image on the right is obviously superior, in terms of looking more "realistic", than the image on the left. I don't play top-tier games anyway, so I imagine I won't see much of an impact on my personal gaming decisions until the 2030s. But the fact that this seems to be a technological...

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But that's my favorite part of D&D; the part where it generates weird results nobody was expecting. All things being equal, I'd rather have reincarnate as the only "bring back to life" option, and remove the raise dead/resurrection spells.

Some other time. I thought I was saying something fairly innocuous and trivial; since it seems to not be the case, I don't want to derail the thread in a discussion over semantics.

You don't, IMO.

You’re almost certainly correct, but I like to keep the various options in context for the broader thread readership.

Or maybe they don’t! Strategic and tactical thinking is not a requirement for lots of kinds of RPGs.

Combat is just another way to develop prompts that generate narratives. You win the combat, you follow narrative A. You lose, you switch to narrative B. Without resources to deploy, the only input is narrative input (the playing the situation/“tactical infinity” that OSR likes) and the die...

Both. Newer books added options, that when mixed with the strongest options in core, produced an even stronger combination. But the core "overly strong" classes were problematically strong even from the PHB. You didn't anything beyond the material in the 3 core books to be able to handle...

I adore the idea of a loot-based/currency game for a D&D-like dungeon crawl/site-exploration. Lots of potions, scrolls, items with charges, spells that require spell reagents that have to be bought, etc. Makes a strong gameplay loop of "acquire treasure, then spend treasure to beat the next...