Parmandur
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Despite that, in actual play, 3 attuned items is a great equalizer, especially for tiers 3 and 4 of play in an Organized Play D&D 5e campaign.
True, but all of the Classes break the rules, it's what makes them unique.
Despite that, in actual play, 3 attuned items is a great equalizer, especially for tiers 3 and 4 of play in an Organized Play D&D 5e campaign.
5, this might well be the best 5E product to this point in time.
You have to be kidding. It's got completely unplaytested and sketchy as anything rules, and the art is a car-crash combination of random old pieces and mediocre to bad new ones. Plus it's largely a reprint of another book!
Not at all, this book is fantastic.
It has been playtested, extensively, so I don't know where you are getting from on that front, since as you point out it is about a quarter a finalized version of the early access public playtest document.
I love the art, old and new, and enjoy the mix. My son got a major kick from flipping through and looking at the pictures on the way home from the store.
I think that his "my kid likes it!" remark (as you put it) is aimed at the Artwork. Because such a thing is subjective. So it strikes me as a perfectly reasonable argument against the "I hate it [the art]!" you've thrown out."My kid liked it!" is lovely but if intended as an argument is a bad faith approach for reasons I hope you can understand.
to something with big balance impacts
I think that his "my kid likes it!" remark (as you put it) is aimed at the Artwork. Because such a thing is subjective. So it strikes me as a perfectly reasonable argument against the "I hate it [the art]!" you've thrown out.
Colour me extremely sceptical that there is any balance impact whatsoever. They replaced a few weak-sauce feats that no player would ever take with the option of learning a couple of less-than-overwhelming utility spells.
Wut? How so? Are you trying to claim that the Greater Dragonmark feats where not a pile of suck?! In which case, you need to justify YOUR statement. Why would any PC choose one of those feats ahead of GWF or +2 Dex?I'm sorry, Paul, but that is such a grotesque and profoundly disingenuous misrepresentation of the situation that I'm not going to engage with you on this beyond pointing that out.
They completely changed the rules on how Greater Dragonmarks work, to something with big balance impacts (much bigger than before), without any widescale test. It's not clear that the change was playtested at all by any group. You certainly cannot, in good faith, assert that it definitely was.
Many other major changes were made with no apparent testing of the changed rules. Some are straightforward enough that that's reasonable - the racial changes, for example.
But the Greater Dragonmark stuff? No.
"My kid liked it!" is lovely but if intended as an argument is a bad faith approach for reasons I hope you can understand.