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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8405679" data-attributes="member: 86653">I build a campaign world or sandbox, fill it with various kinds of obstacles and challenges and set the PCs loose. The world exists independently of the PCs. If they make some parts trivial, fine, there will be other parts that are not trivial. Where things like exploration in 5E, skip buttons, and flight become a problem is that the game I want to run is focused on exploration. Sandbox hexcrawl. West Marches. Whatever. So for the entire purpose of the game to not be trivialized, I have to make a lot of house rules in 5E that I wouldn't in other games. Throwing flying into the mix is just one more skip button that trivializes the main focus of the game, for me. Sure. Sometimes. Not all the time. Not for the majority of the game. They shouldn't be able to trivialize most of the game from level 1. Exploration focused hexcrawl in 5E...plus flight at first level? Might as well not bother unless you want to make a heap of house rules.It's not an issue of letting the heroes be heroes, it's an issue of how much of the game they can trivialize. The quantity of skip buttons in 5E is ridiculous. I'm down with letting the PCs shine, I'd just like to have some game left to actually challenge them after they're done shining.At higher levels of play...where flight is expected and generally accounted for. That's not permanent flight from 1st level. They are drastically different beasts.</blockquote>

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