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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9713173" data-attributes="member: 7023840">As an unabashed lover of the Monk class, that is enough for me! <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=":)" />Having done a pretty deep dive into 5e24, I actually think that it does a lot of good things. But .... one of the biggest problems is that it is both so similar to, and yet, so subtly different from, 5e14. Which means that if you've had a decade of using words and rules in one way you will find that they just work really well ... except when they don't, and then they don't work at all because it's changed.I keep using grapple as a go-to example, because it uses the same word, and it appears in many of the same places, but it is completely different now- which a lot of people just ... don't realize. The TWF are a little easier because most people understand that they have changed, but now the rules are actually spread out over various areas- and, confusingly, are concentrated in weapon properties. The biggest change is that (IMO) 5e14 used key words, but was also more "natural language." 5e24 tried to tighten it up by being a lot more keyword focused. Probably because (again, IMO) they were looking to support VTT/computer play more heavily.</blockquote>