D&D 5E (2024) Is 5E better because of Crawford and Perkins leaving?

[ECMO3]

Sorry but I believe that D&D should purge the weak from its ranks. If you lack sufficient tactics/system matery/fictional positioning then you deserve negative outcomes in your D&D game.

So no new players ever. Got it!

 

[ECMO3]

no it isn’t, especially since balance is kinda independent from mechanics and a thematically well designed class

Balance is not independent from mechanics, when people are talking about "balance" they are talking about making the mechanics from one option equivalent to the mechanics from another option.

There is nothing that makes me believe the pursuit of this this is positive for the game at all.

 

[Zardnaar]

So no new players ever. Got it!

Its interesting playing with newbie heavy groups.

And yes I learn from them.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Why couldn't they just write it out how it was intended to work? Because as it is, it doesn't do what we all know it should do.

"Eh, they'll figure it out" is lazy design.

But it does do what we think it does. It just doesn't interact well with the rather confusing minutia of the "actual" rules (that mostly never come up and don't usually matter).

I don't disagree that it could be easier, but frankly, easier would be for Dash to say "You move up to your Speed" (whenever you take the Dash Action) not for anything to change about the discussed feature.