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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9155533" data-attributes="member: 18">No, I don't think so.It's not a design that many DMs or players think enhances or improves the game in any way. For I would suggest the majority of groups, it's a bunch of fiddly bollocks which looks awfully like a Feat Tax on certain classes, which applies in an extremely irregular, perverse and counter-intuitive way to certain spells - not the ones anyone would expect.I don't really buy that DMs routinely hand out +X shields in 5E. I've never seen one in play, not even from an official adventure, so I feel like you're really pushing your luck here, point-wise. GWM Fighters are drastically more effective, in my experience, than ones with high ACs, because at some point the DM just basically stops attacking them, and they've got no real way to make them, unlike 4E.Yup. Or an EK or a Cleric or a Bard who was meleeing. I can't even think of a podcast where the DM enforces the rules that way either - I mean I'm sure it's out there, but it's got to be hella-rare.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9155533, member: 18"] No, I don't think so. It's not a design that many DMs or players think enhances or improves the game in any way. For I would suggest the majority of groups, it's a bunch of fiddly bollocks which looks awfully like a Feat Tax on certain classes, which applies in an extremely irregular, perverse and counter-intuitive way to certain spells - not the ones anyone would expect. I don't really buy that DMs routinely hand out +X shields in 5E. I've never seen one in play, not even from an official adventure, so I feel like you're really pushing your luck here, point-wise. GWM Fighters are drastically more effective, in my experience, than ones with high ACs, because at some point the DM just basically stops attacking them, and they've got no real way to make them, unlike 4E. Yup. Or an EK or a Cleric or a Bard who was meleeing. I can't even think of a podcast where the DM enforces the rules that way either - I mean I'm sure it's out there, but it's got to be hella-rare. [/QUOTE]

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