D&D 5E What are the "True Issues" with 5e?

[mamba]

Like, people just outright delete rules. They rip out chunks of the core game and then complain.
Like a lot ot tables play without incumberance, tracking water and food and other resources and then complain that exploration sucks.

Create Water and Goodberry want a word with you…

 

[mamba]

People who don't fully understand reality, such as the effects of environment on species should not dictate 'realism' in the context of wholly fantastic settings.

that is not what I meant, you can keep your condescension to yourself

 

[Vaalingrade]

for the ranger or the DM?

Yes.

 

[Maxperson]

Noncaster were design to not be dependent on gear for Combat.

Nothing was done for noncombat.

5e is designed as a hardcore dungeon crawling back and slash. that says it can do anything without the tools to modify it.

If you play with the adventuring day as the game is designed around, casters will frequently run out of spells before the end. They are dependent on items in order to not have to rely on cantrips which are subpar. The problem is that DMs(including myself) don't like the idea of the adventuring day and many DMs refuse to use it, so casters never get to that point.

Edit: I misread that. Did you mean that noncasters(fighters) are not dependent on gear for combat or was that a typo?

 

[Vaalingrade]

that is not what I meant, you can keep your condescension to yourself

You said oxygen percentages wouldn't effect humans as a species. Then insisted I meant a bee in a high oxygen environment would instantly grow giant.

And this is not an isolated incident when it comes to people dictating 'verisimilitude' specifically to block the fantastic only for player characters. "This isn't like what it is in real life" only real life itself is more fantastic than what is allowed in this fantasy game to those who flex 'verisimilitude'.

 

[Maxperson]

They are—-depending on how you define it.

Going toe to toe with giant monsters again and again with a weapon only is amazing.

As is killing a gargantuan dragon with a piece of metal that realistically isn't long enough to get through their scales and hide, let alone reach anything major.

 

[mamba]

You said oxygen percentages wouldn't effect humans as a species. Then insisted I meant a bee in a high oxygen environment would instantly grow giant.

I said pretty much the opposite of that… I said it will not make much difference for the individual human, just like the existing individual bee will not get supersized, and over time they would both evolve into new species with new names. The word ‘human’ does not refer to that new species

 

[Vaalingrade]

Again, 'Human' isn't the species name for H. sapiens sapiens. A lot of species are described as 'human'.

Consider the D&D human H. fantasticus if you must. They're a human from the same fantastic environment that made the griffin and the dragon possible. And even weirder since they're usually depicted as the only species without a creator deity, they might be the only naturally evolved intelligent species on a given world.

 

[mamba]

gain, 'Human' isn't the species name for H. sapiens sapiens. A lot of species are described as 'human'.

again, human is shorthand for the species name.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Human is a descriptor for a group of which we are the sole survivors.