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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6233502" data-attributes="member: 2067">I love that over all, what he's describing is tearing down that wrought iron fence made of tigers between gameplay and story. When the story I tell matches the game I'm playing, Things Are Good!One of the best bits:I'm happy to perhaps see the end of &quot;This level 20 Orc minion hits harder than this level 6 Ogre, because numbers.&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I get that response. Still, 5e wizards are a lot more like traditional D&amp;D wizards than 4e wizards, so perhaps it's relative to where they're coming from! And I imagine the options will be there to strip out many of the more &quot;non-D&amp;D&quot; bits (which, at the moment, is mostly at-will cantrips and no casting-interruption mechanic). For me, it's always been something along the lines of, &quot;I'm tired. I'm wounded. I can't move that well. The next time a goblin sticks me, it might go all the way through. I need to be careful. I need to rely on my friends.&quot;The fact that for me, HP are mostly meaty, and that D&amp;D has no death spiral means that I'm playing a heroically tough and resolute champion who can take a dozen cuts and stabs and still stumble forward, relatively un-hampered until her last ounce of resilience gives out and it all catches up with her.I don't know that this must be a consequence. Simplicity doesn't imply that the option doesn't matter, just that the choice is clear and quick. Should I run or should I continue to fight? Should I blast the guy to the left or to the right? Big choices. Clear consequences. Fast decision-making.Strategy has more potential to be &quot;fiddly&quot; in this regard, where small changes can have big fractal effects. I hope they keep in mind that some folks want stuff like kingdom management, but don't want to eat up a whole night doing it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6233502, member: 2067"] I love that over all, what he's describing is tearing down that wrought iron fence made of tigers between gameplay and story. When the story I tell matches the game I'm playing, Things Are Good! One of the best bits: I'm happy to perhaps see the end of "This level 20 Orc minion hits harder than this level 6 Ogre, because numbers." :) I get that response. Still, 5e wizards are a lot more like traditional D&D wizards than 4e wizards, so perhaps it's relative to where they're coming from! And I imagine the options will be there to strip out many of the more "non-D&D" bits (which, at the moment, is mostly at-will cantrips and no casting-interruption mechanic). For me, it's always been something along the lines of, "I'm tired. I'm wounded. I can't move that well. The next time a goblin sticks me, it might go all the way through. I need to be careful. I need to rely on my friends." The fact that for me, HP are mostly meaty, and that D&D has no death spiral means that I'm playing a heroically tough and resolute champion who can take a dozen cuts and stabs and still stumble forward, relatively un-hampered until her last ounce of resilience gives out and it all catches up with her. I don't know that this must be a consequence. Simplicity doesn't imply that the option doesn't matter, just that the choice is clear and quick. Should I run or should I continue to fight? Should I blast the guy to the left or to the right? Big choices. Clear consequences. Fast decision-making. Strategy has more potential to be "fiddly" in this regard, where small changes can have big fractal effects. I hope they keep in mind that some folks want stuff like kingdom management, but don't want to eat up a whole night doing it. [/QUOTE]

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