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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest 7037866" data-source="post: 9526548"> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Overnight full healing</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Encounter design with "easy and medium" levels. The standard 6-8 encounter per adventuring day is based on the premise these are medium or hard encounter</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(related to the last) Encounter design not based on the game world narrative concerning difficulty</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bloated ability modifiers (thanks for that one 3E...) making attacks and defense better for PCs (65% hit rate instead of 35-40%).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The made saves worse in some ways, as the numbers dont' get "as good" as in AD&D, but repeated saves is so easy mode</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The above "countered" by bloated HP but yet damage not keeping up with it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Higher hit dice for Wizards (magic-users) and Rogues (thieves)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No save or die effect</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No level draining</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">3rd level revivify spell to keep PCs from death in combat 9 times out of 10</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No chance of revival or raise failure</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fast level progression through tier 1 to increase survival chances</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Over-abundance of features to make attacks magical, basically nullifying resistance to non-magic attacks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Those resistances to non-magic attacks being resistance instead of immunity</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ease of access to wizard spells, no chance of spell failure or having to find desired spells or research them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Additional action economy via bonus actions and reactions, effectively allowing PCs to do two or three things in a round instead of just one thing</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">and so on...</li> </ul>Now, every one of these can of course be house-ruled or challenged by a DM who wants to keep the game more lethal (such as myself), but RAW by design the game is just less lethal and in easy mode if you run it as intended (6-8 encounters of medium to hard per adventuring day, for example).Finally, as I have posted in other threads, there is the "shift" towards character-driven stories, which makes it so groups feel like the PC is the hero and shouldn't die--because the hero can't die! What kind of story is that!?[ATTACH=full]388341[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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