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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8951374" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I have long said (as in, from basically the moment it was introduced to the D&D Next playtest) that Ad/Dis was a great idea on paper but a terrible one in practice, because WotC would horribly abuse it and thus be lrft with a weaker, more impoverished design space.As you say, the problem is that Advantage is too powerful as it is; it is powerful enough that it should be an upgrade, or at least more like a weapon of last resort, especially since it doesn't stack and (originally) wasn't intended to have any stronger form. But it isn't treated like that, is it? It is treated like the weapon of first resort. By the time you get to the late end of levels most games reach (upper single digits), it's quite possible to get Advantage on a lot of checks; by the early teens, it should be nearly everywhere. Yet it's also supposed to serve as the only real reward for cool stunt ideas or favorable circumstances and the mechanical hook on which multiple classes can depend AND completely non-stacking and (originally) non-improving, with no recognition for heightened benefit or extra special circumstances?And then they went and broke even the main benefit of it being the last step in the line by having things like Elven Accuracy, where the player gets "super" advantage some of the time. So it isn't even the one-stop shop in absolute form, yet it remains the all-and-only of the buff world for most characters. It is incredibly frustrating; instead of having our cake and eating it too, we have sold our cake and then used the proceeds to get a chance to merely look at a cake we can't even eat!</blockquote>

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