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<blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 8333683" data-attributes="member: 7015698"><p>Didn't every damn edition market itself with a line like "Getting back to the Dungeon!" maybe it's time to admit we DON'T actually want to get back to the Dungeon? It's dusty, it smells weirds and it's full of Kobolds. </p><p></p><p>They railed against <em>transparent encounter design</em>?! A thing meant to make it <em>easier </em>to DM? What, did they get annoyed at the XP budget formulas and expected wealth per level tables too? It's probably their fault Monsters cast spells from the PC spell list instead of just having info in their stat block. I swear, the more I hear about those 5e play testers, the more I feel they went out of their way to pick the angriest grognardiest grognards who wanted to destroy 4e and hated anything that gave them even a single whiff of 4e. </p><p></p><p>The layout and formatting in 5e could be better (for one thing, I can think of 3 major improvements I could make to the Spell Section alone...) but I think homogeneity in formatting is good for the identity of a brand and for ease of use. It's not as exciting if you just want to LOOK at your D&D books, but it makes them way better to use if you know how to navigate them. </p><p></p><p>Letting some new artists flex their own styles from time to time would be great. I really like the cover for the FLGS version of Tasha's, for exemple, and I think Xanathar's also had au unique style? And I know they let Acquisition Inc. have its own art style. </p><p></p><p>You mean sticking to the edition for as long as possible? Yeah, as long as it doesn't become unwieldy. So far they've been good at keeping the crunch content (painfully) low so they can just keep selling settings for years. </p><p></p><p>But when (not if) the edition DOES change, I really hope they're not affraid of some radical change. We could have had an interesting Sorcerer who transforms and manifest more and more of their heritage the more sorcery point they spend, but instead we got the boring 'CHA Wizard without a book' instead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Undrave, post: 8333683, member: 7015698"] Didn't every damn edition market itself with a line like "Getting back to the Dungeon!" maybe it's time to admit we DON'T actually want to get back to the Dungeon? It's dusty, it smells weirds and it's full of Kobolds. They railed against [I]transparent encounter design[/I]?! A thing meant to make it [I]easier [/I]to DM? What, did they get annoyed at the XP budget formulas and expected wealth per level tables too? It's probably their fault Monsters cast spells from the PC spell list instead of just having info in their stat block. I swear, the more I hear about those 5e play testers, the more I feel they went out of their way to pick the angriest grognardiest grognards who wanted to destroy 4e and hated anything that gave them even a single whiff of 4e. The layout and formatting in 5e could be better (for one thing, I can think of 3 major improvements I could make to the Spell Section alone...) but I think homogeneity in formatting is good for the identity of a brand and for ease of use. It's not as exciting if you just want to LOOK at your D&D books, but it makes them way better to use if you know how to navigate them. Letting some new artists flex their own styles from time to time would be great. I really like the cover for the FLGS version of Tasha's, for exemple, and I think Xanathar's also had au unique style? And I know they let Acquisition Inc. have its own art style. You mean sticking to the edition for as long as possible? Yeah, as long as it doesn't become unwieldy. So far they've been good at keeping the crunch content (painfully) low so they can just keep selling settings for years. But when (not if) the edition DOES change, I really hope they're not affraid of some radical change. We could have had an interesting Sorcerer who transforms and manifest more and more of their heritage the more sorcery point they spend, but instead we got the boring 'CHA Wizard without a book' instead. [/QUOTE]
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