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I didn't imply that it did. I was trying to steer the thread away from arguments about weird rules cheese and more towards what DMs can do to encourage tactical thinking, if they want a more 4E-like feel. And again... I'm not saying 'try and emulate a live play and run the game like it's a...

I'm aware of all that but you've yet to make it clear why his players' background in voice over matters to tactical combat. I brought up Mercer because he and Critical Role are the most common reference point for Actual Plays but there are plenty of other examples where the tables aren't full of...

Uh... what? I was just pointing out that he does a good job of making tactical combats. I think DMs can take inspiration from some of his encounters... I have no idea what his players (what's with the scare quotes?) being professional VAs have to do with anything.

You can get at least 8 resistances from Rings of Resistance alone... More if you allow rings in other places like toes, tails, or horns.

A bit tangential to the current direction this thread is heading but I think Matt Mercer does a good job of making combats in 5E feel very tactical and using terrain, and his players often pick up the cues he puts down. Early in campaign 3, Liam's character used his battle master's kit to move...

I'm talking specifically about the issue where monsters of type aren't in the same place so you have to flip all over the book for them, IE demons, devils, aasimon, etc. Of course you get used to it, but it's the kind of hiccup you might not consider if you're usually playing with D&D Beyond...

I feel like the layout of the new books is one of those things where it sounds good in your head but you don't notice the problems it causes in practice, especially if you're like the designers, plugged into the online tools and everything.

Just be sure to use the standard D&D version of the portable hole. The A5E version has a weird trait where it automatically causes food and water to spoil for some reason?

If only there was an easy way to import TOV Monsters into 5E VTTs.

Maybe you could have a member of the party set up a forge at the bottom of a portable hole for field repairs.

I think it's mitigated by the fact that Heralds in A5E get Combat Maneuvers, which gives them a second list of options besides spells. Right, like in 5.24. There's something of a drawback to the fact A5E was the first major rework of 5E. It means lot of the QOL features from later in 5E D&D's...

Yeah... that's one of the reasons recorded history in most D&D worlds extends so much farther back than the 6000 or so it does in ours--you have an entire civilization that throws off the curve. One solution I kind of like is the Witcher's solution: Elves aren't natives to the world, they came...

Thank you for contributing this enlightening and valuable s**tpost, this has really given us lots to think about.

My (born 1987) earliest historical memory is seeing OJ Simpson's low-speed chase on TV and even that memory is vague. Earliest personal memory is from when I was not-quite three years old and on vacation in Hawaii. I got jumped by a frog the size of furby.

I think this is kind of undercut because what is now called Species in D&D is not just a social construct. Half-elves and half-orcs can be used as a metaphor for people of mixed race, but it's not entirely analogous. Just like how Mutants in Marvel comics are analogous to various civil rights...

I think the biggest thing to me is the fact they're torn between two worlds. They have life cycles that are more comparable to humans--yes they can live well into their second century, but still not hundreds of years like a full blooded elf. They get some of the perks of being an elf but also...

Vex and Vax. At least to other elves.

Exactly. It's fine if you don't like something and it's fine to have an opinion on something you've only engaged with through criticism thereof and not the media itself. But if you're going to do that at least try and learn from people who accurately represent it? There's so much bad faith...

You expect people to actually read the things they have a negative opinion of? Absurd.

Luckily, Gene Roddenberry circa 1987 doesn't work at WOTC so interpersonal conflicts are fine.