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Yup, I said as much upthread. 5e just NAILS that level of complexity for my son and it's absolutely perfect for him, simple enough that a young teen can grasp it but complex enough that he can nerd out about it for hours. I'm afraid that the general trend with 5.5e is going to start to push 5.5e...

In any case, no edition of D&D has been an especially flexible system. I love D&D but D&D works best when you let it be D&D and some of the worst campaigns I've ever played/run have been attempts to try to push D&D out of its comfort zone into campaigns that it's just not suited for. I like 5e...

Yeah, where I live D&D isn't popular at all so I always get my mind blown hearing how popular it is with kids these days. I'm just not sure that WotC (or any of us old people) really has their finger on the pulse of what kids want and a lot of people at WotC don't quite grasp what made 5e...

Well the thing is with D&D is that there have been so many versions of it that it can be hard to separate out how much of the current version of D&D is popular because of good design or because of inertia. Just about ANYTHING could've been a bestseller (by RPG industry standards) if it was...

Yeah 5.5e in general seems more focused on keeping existing players interested than drawing new players in.

I don't mind the buff to round by round healing at all, I just don't like the buff to how much healing can be pumped out over the course of an entire adventuring day. That's why I like the compromise of buffing healing spells by allowing people to spend hit dice when hit by a healing spell: it...

Yeah, I'm starting to get my brain wrapped around what sort of gameplay 5.5e is trying to support and it's pretty different from both Old School and 4e. You couldn't see that as already in 5e as 5e was presented as mostly a compromise edition.

I'm more surprised that he claims to play with 30-40 people regularly as that is rather obvious naughty word.

Yeah, having people give the caster piggyback rides round the battle has the potential to get rather goofy.

The attrition isn't to HPs specifically as much as to ways to regain HPs, when they run out and players have no more ways of recovering HPs then they really feel like they're on the knife's edge and I like getting players to that point. Most likely. And that wouldn't necessarily be a bad...

Certainly. Other people on this thread have brought up scenarios in which the 3.5e party mass produces CLW wants. A strict apples to apples comparison is impossible so I did the best I could even though it had to handwave a few things and include some spherical cows.

Eh, a lot of the old flavor is going to be more familiar to most younger people then some of the new flavor. D&D has had a MASSIVE influence on computer games etc. so a lot of D&Disms are familiar to a lot of people who have never played D&D and a lot of new stuff just seems to come out of left...

There are a number of ways of doing this and this works as well as any of them. I mostly just don't want the buff to in-combat healing meaning that the PCs can heal themselves out of combat over and over and over and over and make it too hard to attrition down HPs.

Yeah, there are a good number of spherical cows here, tried to do the best analysis I could but it's impossible to do a perfect apples to apples one so just focused on maximum theoretical healing over a single day. I didn't include that for two reasons: 1. It's impossible to put a hard number...

Right the issue of people forgetting naughty word from one session to the next and some people showing up for some sessions and not for others can be worked around...but I'd prefer to just not have to deal with that or to have it be as simple as possible. One less headache for the DM to deal with. I...

I think D&D is heading for a rupture sooner or later. That's not a hard prediction to make since fads never last forever and D&D outside of the hardcore fans has always been a fad that's come and gone. But on a more fundamental level I think that the kind of play that 5.*e rules support and the...

Well just because some people play certain classes a lot doesn't mean those classes are balanced. I'm a real sucker for barbarian/rogue multiclass (I'm a big fan of "hold my beer" moments and nobody does those like a barbarian/rogue) and I'm never going to win an award for high DPS with those...

I don't think that 5.*e is really designed for nova rest repeat at all (see how much rogues suck in such a scenario). It is true that a lot of people do play the game that way, but I think that that's a problem with the design of 5e not how it was supposed to be. As for motivating people to...

Agreed completely with this first part. Although the conclusions I draw from this point seem to be a bit different from yours (see below). Again mostly agreed, with some quibbles. I'm fully on board with the idea that the 3.*e model of "we'll calibrate things so that a certain level of the...

Yes, that's just the thing. If the players get in the habit of frequent rests they don't conserve resources which tends to unbalance the game. Honestly, I've found this to be an even bigger issue out of combat than in combat since if, say, the bard knows that there won't be many fights this...