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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9795940" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Those kinds of powers did exist in older versions of the game. They just didn’t exist for Fighters, and might or might not have existed for Thieves, depending on how your DM handled their %chance abilities. What you’re noticing is that it’s no longer just spells that allow you to achieve a desired effect simply by declaring that you activate the power. And, in my understanding magic users are generally the most popular classes in older editions. Turns out, most people like being able to just declare they’re using a power and get a predictable result. Modern D&D just lets every character do that, and that’s part of what people like about it.What you might be missing is that the existence of these “push-button” powers doesn’t prevent you from coming up with and narrating creative, fiction-first actions. It does remove the need to do so in most situations, but  the option is always there for those who want to take it.It’s also notable that most of these sorts of powers are primarily combat related. You can say “I rage” and get some extra damage on your attacks and damage resistance and stuff, but you usually can’t just say “I charm the guard” and have him do whatever you want (unless you’re a spellcaster and you cast Charm Person, of course). You still generally interact with the game by describing your character’s actions and the DM either narrating the result or asking for some kind of die roll. There’s a centralized mechanic for those dice rolls now instead of a different mechanics for specific situations, but that mechanic is still, in theory, used to resolve the actions you narrate in a fiction-first way, rather than as a way to skip that narration. I say “in theory” because a lot of groups do use it to skip narration. But, that’s part of the nature of the game, different groups will apply the rules in different ways. Point is, if you want that more imaginative, fiction-first gameplay in 5e, the power to make it happen is in your own hands.</blockquote>

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