D&D 5E Sell this 3.5 grognard on 5e

[slobster]

This puzzled me at first, but I think I see the parallel: in both cases (Apple computers, and D&D 5e) insecure guys who derive their self-worth from their expertise in some form of gaming feel that anything with ease-of-use that lowers barriers to entry threatens their imagined hierarchical dominance, so they respond with derision and mockery.

Nice! 2 posts and one is edition war bait (admittedly not a surprise in a thread about comparing editions) and one is platform wars bait.

I think if your next post is about console vs PC and the one after that snidely mocks Manhattan chowder in favor of New England (which I mean honestly that is the scientifically correct choice) and you will have troll post Bingo!

 

[billd91]

I think if your next post is about console vs PC and the one after that snidely mocks Manhattan chowder in favor of New England (which I mean honestly that is the scientifically correct choice) and you will have troll post Bingo!

Interesting subtext alert: Manhattan clam chowder is also from New England, it's just Portuguese-American cuisine. The WASPs were just so racist they blamed it on New York City rather than admit it's also from New England.

 

[slobster]

Interesting subtext alert: Manhattan clam chowder is also from New England, it's just Portuguese-American cuisine. The WASPs were just so racist they blamed it on New York City rather than admit it's also from New England.

That's hilarious. I'm from Monterey, CA where we are super proud of our clam chowder even though it's just New England style chowder that we just happen to make on the West Coast. It is really darn good, though!

I'm always interested in the history of food though, thanks for the trivia!

Uhh but to try to have something on-topic for the thread...you should also try 5E because monks are awesome instead of being mostly dissapointing. Actually there are a lot of classes that just feel better, sooner than they did in 3.5. Barbarians feel like something other than just sloppy strong fighters from level 1, bards are way more fun to play at low levels, I even think sorcerers and wizards feel more like mages at low levels than they did in 3.5 thanks to more useful and at-will cantrips. Gone are the days of my wizard carting a sling around until level 5 so I could be slightly less than useless in most encounters!