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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8122756" data-attributes="member: 93670">Barding weight is a carry over from older editions where heavier armor hit your move speed &amp; a mount could let you sidestep it.&nbsp; Unfortunately they removed that &amp; the other subjective elements from armor/weapons &amp; mounts were generally fairly pointless as a result but barding wasn't changed.&nbsp; Weight modifiers for armor built for creatures that were bigger/smaller than medium is another thing that was inexplicably cut in the process.My gripe is how every aspect* of so many spells feel like they were balanced as if each &amp; every individual component needs to do the heavy lifting to ensure that spell won't be a key part of things like CoDzilla or <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards" target="_blank">linear fighter, quadratic wizard</a> while 5e inverts lfqw at increasing pace as extra attacks give larger &amp; larger multipliers to feats magic items, &amp; so forth to the martial side of that curve.&nbsp; It's hard to tell but it looks like TCoE might be <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KQSnuffG3X-kZkftSMwa3Qf3INsy-Q6apBzi-7Pi4iw/edit#heading=h.yf8eewouav2w" target="_blank">experimenting</a> with some caster tools among those items &amp; class features that acknowledge the inversion is something that needs some tools for 5e's linear side.* duration, range concentration, damage, etc</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8122756, member: 93670"] Barding weight is a carry over from older editions where heavier armor hit your move speed & a mount could let you sidestep it. Unfortunately they removed that & the other subjective elements from armor/weapons & mounts were generally fairly pointless as a result but barding wasn't changed. Weight modifiers for armor built for creatures that were bigger/smaller than medium is another thing that was inexplicably cut in the process. My gripe is how every aspect* of so many spells feel like they were balanced as if each & every individual component needs to do the heavy lifting to ensure that spell won't be a key part of things like CoDzilla or [URL='https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards']linear fighter, quadratic wizard[/URL] while 5e inverts lfqw at increasing pace as extra attacks give larger & larger multipliers to feats magic items, & so forth to the martial side of that curve. It's hard to tell but it looks like TCoE might be [URL='https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KQSnuffG3X-kZkftSMwa3Qf3INsy-Q6apBzi-7Pi4iw/edit#heading=h.yf8eewouav2w']experimenting[/URL] with some caster tools among those items & class features that acknowledge the inversion is something that needs some tools for 5e's linear side. * duration, range concentration, damage, etc [/QUOTE]

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