Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 9649440" data-attributes="member: 2067">But like...what does magic actually do better than a weapon? In fact, even talking about magic vs. weapons implies that it's really about damage, but that isn't really much of an issue in 5e as I understand. Fighters do good damage. And it's an easy fix, too - just up the damage.But, this post below contradicts your take that it's about spell vs. weapon, since it's not actually about spell vs. weapon here:This implies that it's about action denial, and maybe that martials lack good denial abilities. Which isn't a problem that pumping up weapon damage is going to fix. Still not too hard to fix (weapon masteries do some good work in this regard), but is that enough to bring weapons and spells to parity?Maybe not......so the problem statement is not about damage or about action denial, but about encounter design......or the problem is not about damage or action denial or encounter design but about resource management...?Which is part of why these threads reach 40 pages. There's never going to be a solution that satisfies all of these competing and often unstated interests. "Martials are weak" feels a Rorschach test, folks are going to see what they want to see.</blockquote>