D&D 5E What does 5E do well?

[Plaguescarred]

I'm a big fan of how 5E handle movement. especially how you can Breaking Up Your Move between attack and actions.

 

[Garthanos]

* Just too many damn people. My games were always either 3 PCs or 2 PCs + Companion Character. Our rounds were inside a minutes a Turn for PCs and probably 1.5 minutes for me (at most). So you’re talking 6 minutes per round top end when you include Off Turn actions and interactions.

Hmmm those numbers sound so familiar...

 

[TheSword]

It allows for easy conversion of magic items, monsters, spells, effects etc from any edition. It is my evergreen edition.

 

[Eventhorrizon]

5e is great at being easy to learn for new players, being fast to run (possibly its greatest virtue) and being fairly easy to home brew with out breaking. Its also a game most people can live with even if its not their favorite. Being a jack of all trades and a master of none is not a bad thing. I felt 4e seperated mechanics used in combat from mechanics used out side of combat wich was a major deterrent to imagination and kind of killed the fantasy for me. It was also too slow to run for how formulaic t was.

 

[Vyshan]

5e does well with its simplicity and some of its improvements like to segmented movement.
Its rigidness through class structure is good as a teaching tool but can feel confining because of ASI/Feats being class locked.
5e is fairly low in terms of power scaling difference between players, so they won't notice as much compared to other editions.