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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8383827" data-attributes="member: 87792">I'd disagree. 3.x put the mechanics into the flavour, 4e put flavour into the mechanics. 5e's written like 3.X but keeps at least some of 4e.To illustrate the difference, the 4e wizard had a number of at will/cantrip attacks for various elements. What type of damage they did was only different by a single word and their name in a consistent statblock - but they differed in what they did.<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The frost one in the PHB attacked a single target and slowed them by chilling them. (If you recognise this as Ray of Frost in 5e have a cookie; the spell also existed in 3.5 but did damage and nothing else)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The fire one in the PHB was a small ball of fire that attacked a 3*3 area because fire flares</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The first electrical one was Storm Pillar - a spell that didn't actually make any attack rolls but created a tesla coil that blocked a square and zapped anyone who tried to move past it. </li>
</ul>Each had a name and a single sentence of description. But the flavour was in the mechanics and because one was cold and another electrical they did different things in the world that went beyond their damage type. All of those spells had uses and you could only take a couple.For some reason people considered it blander to have different effects on the world than to have a paragraph of text obscuring the mechanics.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8383827, member: 87792"] I'd disagree. 3.x put the mechanics into the flavour, 4e put flavour into the mechanics. 5e's written like 3.X but keeps at least some of 4e. To illustrate the difference, the 4e wizard had a number of at will/cantrip attacks for various elements. What type of damage they did was only different by a single word and their name in a consistent statblock - but they differed in what they did. [LIST] [*]The frost one in the PHB attacked a single target and slowed them by chilling them. (If you recognise this as Ray of Frost in 5e have a cookie; the spell also existed in 3.5 but did damage and nothing else) [*]The fire one in the PHB was a small ball of fire that attacked a 3*3 area because fire flares [*]The first electrical one was Storm Pillar - a spell that didn't actually make any attack rolls but created a tesla coil that blocked a square and zapped anyone who tried to move past it. [/LIST] Each had a name and a single sentence of description. But the flavour was in the mechanics and because one was cold and another electrical they did different things in the world that went beyond their damage type. All of those spells had uses and you could only take a couple. For some reason people considered it blander to have different effects on the world than to have a paragraph of text obscuring the mechanics. [/QUOTE]

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