Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets?

[soviet]

D&D is more "generic" simply because it tries to cover more ground than BitD by a wide margin.

6-8 recommended combat encounters a day. The vast majority of character abilities have a direct combat application.

 

[Fenris-77]

6-8 recommended combat encounters a day. The vast majority of character abilities have a direct combat application.

This is the issue, yes. You need to readjust this whole metric is you want things to feel different.

 

[Reynard]

6-8 recommended combat encounters a day. The vast majority of character abilities have a direct combat application.

This is the issue, yes. You need to readjust this whole metric is you want things to feel different.

I mean, the game does not actually play this way. Like, ever.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I mean, the game does not actually play this way. Like, ever.

I've been GMing D&D for 35 years, and 5e for 12, and I've never had an in-game day with 6-8 combat encounters. Anecdotal, of course, but what else is there?

 

[Fenris-77]

I mean, the game does not actually play this way. Like, ever.

No, it doesn't, but that doesn't mean that's not how the CR and class mechanics were designed. Hence the ... issues.

 

[soviet]

I mean, the game does not actually play this way. Like, ever.

The game doesn't reach out a tentacle and make you play 6-8 combat encounters a day, no. But it is designed on the assumption you will.

 

[Micah Sweet]

The game doesn't reach out a tentacle and make you play 6-8 combat encounters a day, no. But it is designed on the assumption you will.

Design assumptions that don't affect your game in practice are of little relevance IMO.

 

[SableWyvern]

So 5e D&D is a generic RPG rule set?

But BitD isn't?

I'm not sure what the basis is for the ostensible contrast.

That's a goal post shift.

The original point being made, which you questioned, was not that D&D 5e is generic, but that it could be made generic, with some work.

 

[hawkeyefan]

I've been GMing D&D for 35 years, and 5e for 12, and I've never had an in-game day with 6-8 combat encounters. Anecdotal, of course, but what else is there?

Really? You’ve never had 6 to 8 encounters in an adventuring day in 12 years of play?

That’s pretty crazy.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Really? You’ve never had 6 to 8 encounters in an adventuring day in 12 years of play?

That’s pretty crazy.

Yeah. Four fairly often, five sometimes. One is actually most common in practice.