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

[Lanefan]

Good grief. How old is your computer? Mine is an absolute dinosaur. It barely has a graphics card.

Old. As in Windows 8 old. But it works just fine for the rest of what I want it for (99+% of which is word processing, spreadsheets, email, very basic games, and web browsing) thus I've no good reason to shell out for a new one.

Maybe you internet was bad?

Nope. Internet worked fine once I rebooted and wasn't in roll20 any more. And roll20 resumed working once the DM shut off the fancy lighting option.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

And roll20 resumed working once the DM shut off the fancy lighting option.

yeah, roll20 dynamic lighting really hates certain browsers i've found.

 

[Lanefan]

What winter gear? There’s none listed.

Regardless of anything else, that in particular is a fairly big oversight unless a DM rules characters aren't affected by a cold environment (or, shudder, unless the game has no provision for what happens to characters when they get too cold).

You keep ignoring the point though. Magic will always have this defined. Mundane never will. And this is why players will always default to magic solutions. They know what they’re getting.

Here the magic solution is a Resist Cold spell or similar, but I'm not sure 5e even has that or how long it lasts if it does. And if it's concentration-based that's fine for one person but what about the rest of the party?

 

[Lanefan]

yeah, roll20 dynamic lighting really hates certain browsers i've found.

Thank you!!! I've been trying and failing to remember that term all day, and here you gave it to me!

 

[Hussar]

Old. As in Windows 8 old. But it works just fine for the rest of what I want it for (99+% of which is word processing, spreadsheets, email, very basic games, and web browsing) thus I've no good reason to shell out for a new one.

Nope. Internet worked fine once I rebooted and wasn't in roll20 any more. And roll20 resumed working once the DM shut off the fancy lighting option.

Ahh. Ok. Fair enough.

 

[TarionzCousin]

yeah, roll20 dynamic lighting really hates certain browsers i've found.

A campaign I played in, Roll20 dynamic lighting worked for the DM but nobody else. That was very frustrating. It took a few sessions to resolve because she was certain we just weren't using it correctly.

 

[Oofta]

What winter gear? There’s none listed.

You keep ignoring the point though. Magic will always have this defined. Mundane never will. And this is why players will always default to magic solutions. They know what they’re getting.

I meant to say "Clothing, Cold Weather". From Frostmaiden

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This outfit consists of a heavy fur coat or cloak over layers of wool clothing, as well as a fur-lined hat or hood, goggles, and fur-lined leather boots and gloves.​

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As long as cold weather clothing remains dry, its wearer automatically succeeds on saving throws against the effects of extreme cold (see “Extreme Cold”).​

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It should have been in the PHB, it is odd that we needed a supplement, it was an oversight.

Extreme Cold is defined simply as "Below 0 degrees Fahrenheit" because D&D simply doesn't get to levels of detail some people seem to want. D&D is many things. An accurate and detailed survival sim is not one of them, it never has been. You are still provided the basics, admittedly at a very high level and oversimplified. Like most of the rules of the game that deal with mundane things.

EDIT: fixed where the gear came from because I just looked it up in DndBeyond

 

[Cadence]

Good grief. How old is your computer? Mine is an absolute dinosaur. It barely has a graphics card.

Maybe you internet was bad?

Mine at start of COVID was only a few years old, and the biggest problem I had was getting it to take big enough maps (like the full caves of chaos scanned in and blown up large enough to take the default character tokens) let alone doing anything else. New one since then, so might be better. It very well have been a user problem (problem user?) too.

 

[Oofta]

Mine at start of COVID was only a few years old, and the biggest problem I had was getting it to take big enough maps (like the full caves of chaos scanned in and blown up large enough to take the default character tokens) let alone doing anything else. New one since then, so might be better. It very well have been a user problem (problem user?) too.

I found that if I limited the size of the map things worked okay. Then again, we were running on 21st century computers, not a PC Jr.

 

[billd91]

It should have been in the PHB, it is odd that we needed a supplement, it was an oversight.

There are relatively few editions that did include cold weather clothing in the PH at all. Pretty much just 2e and 3e, as far as I can tell.