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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8255681" data-attributes="member: 93670">The problem with "adding things" is that there needs to be  room baked into the system to do that.  Take feats & magic items as an example, both are pretty much the defacto default expectation but because the bar on PC ability is pegged so high WotC just throws up their hands and says "feats and magic items are <a href="https://ell.stackexchange.com/revisions/91035/1" target="_blank">optional</a>" to dismiss all of the resulting problems from actually using them & we are still talking about a houserule wotc keeps devoting significant pagespace in book after book.  WotC can't easily make simple changes to the 5e core that make room for them for the same reason it's not easy for a gm to add things outside an narrow band of allowed additions.  Since you mentioned it, I tried hero points from the dmg early on and liked it better than inspiration but there's still too much missing that would be very difficult to meaningfully homebrew in without carving flesh off the plsyrtd just to add some ofit back in the new elements like tactical stuff and lethality mitigating tools that force everyone to work so a team striving to exhibit some level of skill beyond charging in and wackamole healing word through everything until "we need to take s short rest... nor mot moving from this spot dont care itlf its not safe cause no fight will ever last an hour They may still exist, I'm sure they do, but witc has turned up the level of suspicion to hair trigger levels with do many system elements designed towards trying to force them into line &such s high bar that z gm needs to look like they are gearing upone to some degree right out of the gate before they can carve out room for new stuff.  After that if bob does or whatever its because Alice was a mean killer hm not because he charged into ten orcs with three hp while ignoring all of Alice's attempts to paint how bad of an idea Bob's character knows charging it he orc fortress gate with no plan was</blockquote>

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