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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8610737" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I mean maybe. I think it's just about people wanting their character to be the character they imagine.Until the Beholder...ya know....looks at it. And if you've given any PC a +3 accuracy boosting item at level 9, it's your own fault if the changes more than you can adapt for. Very very obviously.There is absolutely nothing in the game that fits that description.You mean the item that...in no way broke the game? What show were you watching??Mathew Mercer is not a genius. He's just a guy. He had a similar reaction to the damage output of Vax, of all characters. He tuned down the Gunslinger, multiple times. For crying out loud Percy would have done more damage with Crossbow Expert and the Battlemaster Archetype. I love CR, and Matt is a truly wonderful person and very skilled, dynamic, and creative, DM. But the idea that Scanlan broke the game on any level is just absurd.So then, we do know who designed the book. It's not complicated. The same person lead the design of the PHB, and Tasha's.Okay. You're free to see the design of thegame as "janky", but that's literally nothing more than your preferences not being met as specifically as they were with earlier books. That's it. Absolutely nothing more. Short rest and "PB per day" archetypes run just fine in the same team. The game just isn't significantly different.Okay, what specific problems came up because of those options?Okay. Which ones do you feel are higher powered than any archetype in the PHB?No, they aren't. The top tier classes barely got anything, what they did get didn't significantly raise their power level they just fixed some pain points in their design, and the big beefy variant features went to the weakest classes in the game. Absolutely nothing in Tasha's raises the power level above what you can make in the PHB.I'm not sure what you mean, here. You could have an 18 starting score at level 1 from the PHB. And again, I'm gonna need some serious proof before I take seriously the idea that anything in Tasha's or enabled by Tasha's outperforms the PHB.Examples? Were Mountain Dwarves generally considered one of thebetter races? I sure didn't see any optimizers playing them outside of dirt simple DPR builds that couldn't be bothered with anything outside DPR spreadsheets. Meanwhile, I've seen a lot more Goliath Druids and Gnomish Fighters and Barbarians, so...</blockquote>

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