D&D 5E (2014) Is Tasha's Broken?

[Micah Sweet]

Um, I do have infinite dragons and it is just an elf-game. Cliche phrasing, maybe, but both true.

Do you find them to be uncomfortable truths?

I find them to be reductive, disrespectful claptrap, to be honest.

 

[Bill Zebub]

I find them to be reductive, disrespectful claptrap, to be honest.

Oh. Kind of like the badwrongfun accusations to which they are often the response.

 

[James Gasik]

Wow, all I meant to say was "someone can fall under the bar as well as over, and some DM's don't know how to handle that" and now I'm an optimizing enemy of roleplaying and fun!

I need to get that as a title or something. Like "Moon-faced assassin of joy".

 

[Crimson Longinus]

Wow, all I meant to say was "someone can fall under the bar as well as over, and some DM's don't know how to handle that" and now I'm an optimizing enemy of roleplaying and fun!

But the bar is incredibly low. Like if you have 14 in your main stat you're set. This was in the context of ASIs, so I interpreted it as the players not floating the ASIs to their main stat being an issue. Sorry if that wasn't what you meant. (And it seems it wasn't.)

 

[Maxperson]

Wow, all I meant to say was "someone can fall under the bar as well as over, and some DM's don't know how to handle that" and now I'm an optimizing enemy of roleplaying and fun!

I need to get that as a title or something. Like "Moon-faced assassin of joy".

You're an optimized enemy!?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Oh. Kind of like the badwrongfun accusations to which they are often the response.

Yeah, actually.

 

[CreamCloud0]

sorry, i'm not quite up on the terminology, what does 'it's just an elf game' mean? asking this genuinely.

 

[niklinna]

sorry, i'm not quite up on the terminology, what does 'it's just an elf game' mean? asking this genuinely.

It's a reference to how elves, for some mysterious reason, have bunches and bunches and bunches of subraces, each with different ASIs, so that you can likely play some kind of elf and still get the exact ASIs you want. Alternatively, if you really want particular ASIs, under the pre-Tasha's system, you might have to play some kind of elf, even if you didn't like elves all that much.

 

[Micah Sweet]

sorry, i'm not quite up on the terminology, what does 'it's just an elf game' mean? asking this genuinely.

Its a way to refute any serious discussion of a fantasy topic, by claiming that its all made up anyway so none of it matters, or equating a discussion of aspects of the game as a real life discussion, thus making it ridiculous.

 

[James Gasik]

You're an optimized enemy!?

Yes, which means I can last four rounds of combat against player characters!