D&D (2024) How is Flex still a thing?

[UngeheuerLich]

This.

It got enough overall votes to stay in. But they didn't have the time to go though the individual feedback.

Also, while it is the weakest option. It's not exactly unplayable. You're not going to get your party killed or anything.

Actually, on page one it is explicitly stated, that the weapon mastery section is reprinted only for reference and is due for revision in a future update...

so instead of ranting, reading helps.

 

[Valetudo]

Here's the fix that flex needs. If using a 2handed weapon say greataxe or a longsword with 2 hands, get plus 1 to damage. Add that onto the mastery and it's perfect. This means there is still a reason to swing a longsword 2hded.

 

[Valetudo]

Or use 3rd editions 2hnde rules.

 

[Sulicius]

But there are other cool masteries for 2-handed weapons. Why not just leave this be and pick those?

 

[Horwath]

Or use 3rd editions 2hnde rules.

math is obviously hard as no one after 3.5 does not know how to multiply by 1,5.

 

[mellored]

Versatile weapons need to have 2 different masteries, depending on how you hold it.

That would make them... versatile...

Flex gets replaced with +2 damage, +3 with a 2-hander.

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

This.

It got enough overall votes to stay in. But they didn't have the time to go though the individual feedback.

Also, while it is the weakest option. It's not exactly unplayable. You're not going to get your party killed or anything.

5E is easy enough where you can wander around in padded armor, with a turkey drumstick as your weapon, and spend half your rounds eating it, and no one's going to die. That's a pretty low bar to clear.

 

[Horwath]

5E is easy enough where you can wander around in padded armor, with a turkey drumstick as your weapon, and spend half your rounds eating it, and no one's going to die. That's a pretty low bar to clear.

any fight where ATLEAST one PCs in not knocked out is a fight not worth designing.

 

[Sulicius]

any fight where ATLEAST one PCs in not knocked out is a fight not worth designing.

Really? I have those fights all the time. A world where powerful heroes are always fighting challenges just dangerous enough to knock someone out isn’t fun or realistic.

Sometimes having a lvl17 party fight some bandits is really cathartic.

 

[Horwath]

Sometimes having a lvl17 party fight some bandits is really cathartic.

That is what having a tavern fight is for.