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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BenjaminPey" data-source="post: 9774745" data-attributes="member: 7039344">I hear you, but I don't find 5.24 monsters to be weak sauce at all. My kids are very much afraid of them.As for a design aiming both at casual and hardcore gamers, I think 5E is somewhere in the sweet spot. Casuals can't really make bad builds, no character is useless in battles, rules mastery is beneficial but not to the point of being mandatory, and in the other hand it's rather trivial to come up with "hardcore modes": no easy rests, no full-healing on rest, max damage for monsters, no Tiny Hut/Rope Trick/Heroe's Feast, etc. The 2024 revision is still somewhere near that spot. It made a move towards complexity and rules mastery on the one hand, but also a rather consistent effort to eliminate bad choices.As for magic item bonuses, magic items are few and far between in my games (as they are in the published campaigns). When they have mechanical weight, they are and should be significant. There is not enough of them for any kind of stacking. I don't pretend all this to be a particularly well-informed or well-thought-out opinion, though, it's just my experience with the game. Maybe it's possible to be even more adjusted to opposed gaming preferences. But a cursory glance at my (too vast) RPG library tells me that no others have been more successful than 5E at appealing to casual and invested players alike. Hence my position: if OP's style is out of 5E scope, a game already built to please quite a large audience, when mine are pretty much completly subsumed in it, in so far as fantasy adventure games gravitating around combat are concerned, I don't see a way to reconcile our mutual preferences under a single umbrella. Again, I may be wrong, obviously.</blockquote>

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