D&D General Things That Bug You

[Shadowedeyes]

The controversial take? Gishes. And alignment.

 

[Ancalagon]

Ugh. It's a wolf.

If you summon a wolf. What about if you summon something sentient?

 

[jmartkdr2]

The controversial take? Gishes. And alignment.

Okay, I'll bite: what bugs you about gishes? (alignment I get)

 

[Shadowedeyes]

First, I understand why gishes are popular, and that is because the idea of a magic swordsman is incredibly cool. With that said though, I tend to gravitate towards Fighters, Barbarians and Rogues, so the less magical classes personally. And the concept of the gish is really hard to balance against a nonmagical fighter. It often feels like "Hey, that concept you like? Kinda pointless what with the teleporting flamesword guy over there." It's not that I hate gishes or ban them or anything, but they do at times, bug me a little.

 

[HJFudge]

Gnomes and Halflings existing in the same setting. Also the 1000 subtypes of elves.

 

[Gorg]

5E adventures, and their stat blocks- their complete LACK of them. It makes for a lot of extra work preparing for actual gameplay. It's that, or spend the match flipping back and forth between narrative; the map; the monster stats in the appendix; and the stats for any new spells or magic items...

Also, some PHB classes are rather light on archetype choices, compared to others. Arcane traditions, and Domains have quite a few choices, but some, like Fighter and Rogue only have 2 or 3. Overall, I really like the way they did the classes- it just seems like they ran out of ideas in time to meet the print deadline for some of the classes, lol.

I remain somewhat unconvinced by the concentration mechanic as it applies to magic use. A good 75% at least seem to have that for a duration.

 

[Dausuul]

Names with apostrophes.

I think all fantasy writers should have to store the names of their characters in a SQL database without sanitized inputs.

 

[overgeeked]

In D&D 5E, the assumption that the standard party will have four characters is dumb. It causes way, way more problems than it solved.

 

[TwoSix]

I think all fantasy writers should have to store the names of their characters in a SQL database without sanitized inputs.

Oh, this hits me in the feels.

 

[Haffrung]

then what is it supposed to be?

Stealthy scout. Trap and lock expert. Sneaky spy.

The thief/rogue role was fundamentally changed because 3e was built around the combat encounter. The pre-3e thief was about out-of-combat expertise, or what is now called exploration mode.