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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Rainsborough" data-source="post: 8661425" data-attributes="member: 7036502">You cut the part where I have reversed myself to limiting a BBEG to 5-7 high end spell slots, because the lower spell slots simply won't be used. But as to you suggesting that the mass of DM's can't run complex fights because of what you see from streams of DM's supposedly playing D&amp;D...nope. First off, anyone who is actually streaming their game, or doing it a a Con, is NOT focusing on the game as much as the presentation of the game to the audience. And 99.999% of all DM's never stream their games. And as soon as they do it for money, nope, no longer do I consider that a real D&amp;D session. You want to watch a real DM do a real session? Watch Bill Silvey on You Tube run his AD&amp;D 1e game, to a whopping 20 viewers. He does it for the love of the game, has zero production values for his session, but DM's beautifully. Secondly, I can most certainly handle complex BBEG spell casters. I have been doing it for a long long time. Every one of my Dragons also gets Spell Casting (watch a group lose their mind when a Dragon starts Misty Stepping or Far Stepping over a battlefield). You have zero idea about how many can, but I have played with enough to know it is a much larger number than you would like to admit. So yeah, WOTC could have kept the top end spell casting slots, a large list of spells, while also adding in all this simplified stuff for lesser DM's. The BBEG's still only have one Action. They still have to CHOOSE between casting a spell or using some innate ability. But no, they chose pretty pictures over more verbiage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Rainsborough, post: 8661425, member: 7036502"] You cut the part where I have reversed myself to limiting a BBEG to 5-7 high end spell slots, because the lower spell slots simply won't be used. But as to you suggesting that the mass of DM's can't run complex fights because of what you see from streams of DM's supposedly playing D&D...nope. First off, anyone who is actually streaming their game, or doing it a a Con, is NOT focusing on the game as much as the presentation of the game to the audience. And 99.999% of all DM's never stream their games. And as soon as they do it for money, nope, no longer do I consider that a real D&D session. You want to watch a real DM do a real session? Watch Bill Silvey on You Tube run his AD&D 1e game, to a whopping 20 viewers. He does it for the love of the game, has zero production values for his session, but DM's beautifully. Secondly, I can most certainly handle complex BBEG spell casters. I have been doing it for a long long time. Every one of my Dragons also gets Spell Casting (watch a group lose their mind when a Dragon starts Misty Stepping or Far Stepping over a battlefield). You have zero idea about how many can, but I have played with enough to know it is a much larger number than you would like to admit. So yeah, WOTC could have kept the top end spell casting slots, a large list of spells, while also adding in all this simplified stuff for lesser DM's. The BBEG's still only have one Action. They still have to CHOOSE between casting a spell or using some innate ability. But no, they chose pretty pictures over more verbiage. [/QUOTE]

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