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<blockquote data-quote="zen_cat" data-source="post: 8720802" data-attributes="member: 6994804">There are a lot of things that I like, but the main one is introducing asymetric complexity; it remains easy to run for the DM, but players have a many more choices in creation and during play. This keeps my favourite aspect of 5e, since other similar games like pathfinder always tended to fall apart at around 11th-13th level as optimized characters pull way ahead of their non-optimized counterparts. Challenging them properly is tricky and accidental TPKs become more possible. 5e was easy to run, and stayed easy, though the monsters did seem a little boring to me. Monstrous Menagerie (and to some extent the The Monsters Know What They Are Doing books) have fixed this vanilla monster issue for me, while keeping the game easy to run.On the player's side, chararacters have a lot more options and it's just a meatier system to get your head around. There is a much higher variance of types of characters, and there are many more choices all the time. I have read that the density of choices during a session that the players make is what drives engaging games, and I think I agree with that theory. It also stops the 'dead level' issue where you gain a level and the only change is something like 5 hp and a spell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zen_cat, post: 8720802, member: 6994804"] There are a lot of things that I like, but the main one is introducing asymetric complexity; it remains easy to run for the DM, but players have a many more choices in creation and during play. This keeps my favourite aspect of 5e, since other similar games like pathfinder always tended to fall apart at around 11th-13th level as optimized characters pull way ahead of their non-optimized counterparts. Challenging them properly is tricky and accidental TPKs become more possible. 5e was easy to run, and stayed easy, though the monsters did seem a little boring to me. Monstrous Menagerie (and to some extent the [I]The Monsters Know What They Are Doing[/I] books) have fixed this vanilla monster issue for me, while keeping the game easy to run. On the player's side, chararacters have a lot more options and it's just a meatier system to get your head around. There is a much higher variance of types of characters, and there are many more choices all the time. I have read that the density of choices during a session that the players make is what drives engaging games, and I think I agree with that theory. It also stops the 'dead level' issue where you gain a level and the only change is something like 5 hp and a spell. [/QUOTE]

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