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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 5967857" data-attributes="member: 710">Without wanting to sound too bitter or cynical or whatever: I think the D&D Next approach can be rather simple here: If problems existed in past editions, they don't need to be fixed entirely. We can later give people modules to fix it, or we don't do it all, since we tried to fix a lot of things in 4E and guess what - we split the fanbase and annoyed a lot of people. We may have removed or fixed a lot of issues, but we brought a lot of new ones, most importantly, that people simply didn't want these things to be fixed if it took away elements that people considered "core" to the D&D experience. Even if not all did, enough did.Taking away Vancian spellcasting and daily resources does not fit any edition of D&D. Every edition, including 4E, had it! If you take it away now, you are very likely to annoy a lot of people.Again, it sounds overly negative or cynical, but I think D&D next is simply not the edition we will see a lot of innovation. It won't be quite a retro-clone either, and I figure some lessons from 4E will be retained, but it won't make big sweeping changes. Sacred Cows will not be slaughtered, and some may even be revived. There may be modules to slaughter them again or get back some more esoteric ones, but the core will most likely be closer to the experience of past editions, and Daily Spell Slots and the potential for novaing (realized in some play styles, never seen in others) were part of that.The fundamental problem is of course nothing with "nostalgia" or whatever - it's simply that one person's feature is another person's bug. If your play style didn't make novaing a problem and instead daily powers was a way to facilitate operation play, e.g. clever resource management, taking that away is taking away a significant part of your enjoyment why you play. But if on the other hand your group likes to Nova, maybe because they want incredibly hard-core brutal tight battles and need every resources they can get, then novaing becomes a problem of the system - not because of the Nova, but because after the Nova the adventuring day is over. Not having daily resources doesn't satisfy the first group, having them causes problems in terms of adventure pacing for the second. You cannot make both happy. Fixing the problem of group 2 introduces a problem for group 1. So, the "core rule" should probably be, guided by that this is not any game, but D&D, that we treat daily resources and operation play as a feature we want by default and will make it into the core.So, maybe, not having daily powers at all may make a fine module, but it's not core. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> [spoiler]That's the new version of: "This would make a fine houserule, but it's not RAW"[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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