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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7758801" data-attributes="member: 6779196">And I’m sure I don’t agree with that thing I never said.I disagree. There were all sorts of interesting ways to play some classes, some of which did break the game and in so doing made them not fun. Other classes, like the barbarian, were just boring to play no matter what. 5e is overall an improvement over that, but still a little lacking.Reducing complexity isn’t the reason Mearls stated for the changes, so I don’t see your point here.I really, really don’t care about your opinions of 4e. I’m here to talk about 5e.Reducing rules overhead was not their stated design goal, so I’m not sure what tree you’re barking up.Thats all great, but it’s a game too. I’m glad we can make our characters’ narrative as different as we like, but it would be nice if our characters could also do different things as a result of those narrative differences. If the game actually demonstrated differences in the story.K.Nothing about having more choices for how to build your character prevents making choices according to your character’s personality as opposed to tactical reasons. Also, one does not have to make poor tactical decisions to roleplay.See, I’d prefer they developed a game with a higher degree of mechanical depth than 5e, but still made low complexity a priority, and allowed the DM the flexibility to make rulings according to the needs of their table, instead of trying to write the rules to make their role as minor as possible.No, I understand that both changes served the same goal, I just don’t think both were necessary to accomplish that goal to a satisfactory degree.I never said I was a fan of powergaming. I said I don’t think powergaming is a bad thing. What I’m a fan of is making decisions, for both tactical and roleplay reasons.You’d guess wrong. Kindly don’t assume such things about my play preferences.I don’t like playing the same (or same kind of) character over and over though. I like playing many different characters. I like playing them in many different ways. And I like being able to express those differences through both story and mechanics. If you want to insult my play style, the angle you should go for is not power gamer but special snowflake. I like to express my creativity by playing the most unique, different characters I can, and I want the difference to be both in how I narrate my actions and in how my characters behave mechanically.</blockquote>

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