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Being blind is already the same as, and doesn't stack with, being poisoned, frightened, and/or prone.

Funny, I was just looking at these rules, thinking the same thing. The elegance of Advantage/Disadvantage makes the "+2 for half, +5 for three-quarters" really stand out as an oddity. Cut cover to a yes/no with only three states. No cover: normal. Cover: advantage on Dex saves, attackers have...

The idea is: "We" (not actually me) published X under the OGL back in the day. OGL covers derivative products. 5e is similar enough to 3e in format that taking X and tweaking the math/specific effects creates things that are technically 5e compatible. Therefore tweaking X is creating a...

"Levels 11+ need to be multiples of 5,000! Because!" But then why not just make it 90,000? So weird. There's also this weird thing in the CR chart where suddenly in Paragon you get two CR levels sharing the same XP value for the purpose of encounter building, but not evenly through the entire...

You know how DC comics is a soft turd circling the drain because they aggressively court their same old fans, terrified of losing even a single one, despite objective proof that a lot of their fans are toxic and are the very thing that prevents DC's market share from growing?

Phrexus says: "Let me start with this: I’ve been playtesting next since the encounter with 18 rats, to Vault of the Dracolich and beyond, all the way to Dead in Thay. It has not been an enjoyable journey. I’ve really tried, I swear, to make an awesome Rogue, and when that didn’t pan out I tried...

The easy answer is "magic just isn't actually all that hard." Less advanced quantum physics, more intro to differential calculus.

In that case isn't "wait, what is this thing, anyway?!" a feature and not a bug?

I actually don't dislike what 4e was doing with the "monster window", and I don't think it's better or worse than what 5e is aiming to do. I think they both tell interesting and coherent stories through their mechanics. In 4e the philosophy is that Heroes naturally progress from local to...

The level 1 party can win this fight, for sure, but they have a very high risk of losing a character. The Ogre is very easy to hit and has mediocre saves, so that's not a huge hurdle. Most characters are going to be hitting the Ogre on 6+, and his best save is +3, making that a save on 10+ vs...

Eeeehhhhh.... I'm not sure about that. I mean, if C5 really means "suitable for 10th level parties" why not just make it C10? I think the C½ creatures are a special case to accommodate 1st level. If we look at my threshold hypothesis C½ really just indicates monsters that a 1st level party is...

I kinda expect that the starter set is going to be sparse on monster fluff, especially since the bestiary is basically a bonus set of monsters that don't appear in the adventure proper, included to make the set more useful. That said, I didn't dislike the 4e fluff density for monsters, so I'm...

All these monsters are Challenge 2 (450 xp) and all average 12-13 damage for their basic melee attack, 10-11 for ranged. They do a lot of damage relative to 2nd level PC hit points. The pregen fighter is only going to have 15-24 HP at 2nd level, though her AC of 17 keeps her fairly safe from...

He's probably going to die. He's got an AC of 14-15 and 6-7 HP, maybe 8. The ogre hits Black Dougal on an 8-9. If Black Dougal didn't put enough points into Con (+0) the Ogre will drop him off base damage alone (6) and the ogre only needs to roll moderately well (8+ on 2d8) to straight kill...

Except you're conflating two different elements of the issue. 4e's issue, as some people took it, was the constantly scaling monsters, and the math that created a "viability window." But that's something apart from 4e's encounter building guidelines which took all the numbers and crunched them...

Sudden thought as I run out the door: what if CR is more akin to Minion/Normal/Elite? Like CR2 7HD = 2 7th level PCs? Eh, but then Turn Undead keying off CR makes no sense.

That's not the point. The minor point, as Ruin Explorer pointed out, is less that the Bard is going to go toe-to-toe with the ogre and more that the ogre is going to go toe-to-toe with the Bard. Without the tactical module and Opportunity Attacks it's very easy to get past the front line to...

2d8+4, so yeah, it can ruin someone's evening. Average damage is enough to drop most level 1 and 2 characters, and a crit can straight kill pretty much any level 1 character but a Barbarian. Heck, a Wizard with +0 Con bonus is gonna die to average damage. I guess this means that while lower...

It also includes 4e's Immediate and Opportunity actions. So the class can do its job.

If you are so implacable that you consider this a sign of "complete disdain" then there is no reason to care about what you think: you will never be happy and your feedback should be shredded, unread. Seriously, listening to you would be a mistake, and I hope the developers realized that. I...