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To me it look like an evolution of DnD 4ed, stepping further away from original DnD. Domain cards and class cards are in line with 4ed vibe. They got very interesting new mechanics with the fear/hope and the spotlight cycling. Despite it claims to offer cinematic gameplay, there are many crunch...

I see there the usual DnD 5ed experience since 2014. PCs are the heroes and monsters get steamrolled most the time. Work as intended.

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I can’t tell for the best movie, But one of the first wonderful scene was in X2 when Nightcrawler make his way into the White House teleporting and smashing all the guards. For the time it was pure gold.

For 5ed economist would praise for a Left hand bonus action and right hand bonus action.

New coke analogy can fit 4ed, but to claim that 5.24 will be a disaster is playing prophet of doom.

Enough to challenge the party, and not too much to make the party useless.

Asimov, Foundation. A plan to rebuild a civilization.

I suspect that there are DM facing players that loot everything till the bone marrow of any monsters they defeat. Assassin and Hobgoblin does poison damage, I want it toooooooooo!

Indeed, stop trying to make a PC somehow invisible in the middle of a fight! Find a new feature name like : feint or elusive. Allow to make sneak attack when it succeed, but forget the invisible part.

It’s hard to stick to basics. The DM describe. The players tell want he want to do. If the DM call a damage, I should take it without a flinch. But I can analyse that fact and meta game the average damage, or even pretend that my characters should know the average damage of this kind of...

Indeed it was pretty hilarious to read about people playing an elf wizard that cannot admit that the fighter can make a reroll for the sake of the Verisimilitude.

It remind me the old debates about rerolls and their disruptive effects of the verisimilitude principles.

With new names, this debate turn around the old opposition between two approaches of the game : the game school and the realism-simulation school. Gygax already discuss this in the old DMG. I have been a fan of the realism-simulation school in the past, but I found enough dead end and paradox...

It is the way for me too. To describe using common reference. The local stadium, carnival, shopping streets. Once you describe the stadium, you let players imagine the rest of the city and country around.

Actually I prefer to think into concrete facts. There is 20 inns in this town. In this harbor a cargo ship arrive and start almost every day. This kingdom sustain a professional army of 10 thousands soldiers. We see elven travelers here once or twice a year. Describing by numbers don’t help...

I agree to your view, but sometime retreat is not a matter of hit points. Some monsters may reason that they won’t win the fight and sometimes morale flinch even before loosing hit points due to magical effects or the like.

Right before the fight a DM can make a morale check to see how willing to fight are the monsters. On a fail then the DM use any event he judge appropriate to make monsters retreat, flee or surender. The same way DM can use a tactical check (int) to to make monsters more or less efficient or...

For the Drows my reasoning is simple. They will continue to produce material for The Forgotten realms. So Drizzt will still be a character in DnD. And Drizzt without the old classic nasty Drows is hard to sell. I don’t know how they will twist and wrap that, but old classic Drows will reappear...

They could tag old Orcs and Drows as Fiend and keep them, but they don’t. Maybe they will release old orcs and Drows lore into supplements book for « mature» audience with warnings and disclaimer. Who knows? We will se in the coming year.