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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 8310798" data-attributes="member: 6750908">I've always marveled at this, if it makes you feel better. Four players is my bare minimum, and I am much more comfortable with six or seven-- and it's not because I feel like I can manage more players better than you do, but having six or seven players is orders of magnitude easier for me than keeping a game up in the air with three or four. More than eight would probably require organizational helpers-- and I still have nightmares about the Night of the Living Elves-- like old-school Lake Geneva style, but fewer than five players and I really have to depend on a lot of player skill and creativity to keep the game running.I've got a good core gaming group now that can bring the heat... but there are only four of them and I can feel the added strain it puts on my mental energies.For as overwhelmingly negative as I've been about 5e, I reckon it's about time I participate in a thread like this. I don't really feel the need to be fair to 5e, but taking the time and effort to find some things to praise in it... at least helps me maintain a sense of perspective, and helps me recognize things I can learn from the design.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Feats: Feats in Fifth Edition feel weighty and they're damned satisfying to take. There are no feat chains and each and every feat choice is a whole new option for your playstyle.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bounded Accuracy: For as much as I complain about this as the source of most of the things I don't like about Fifth... the fundamental concept that everyone who rolls a d20 has a reasonable chance of passing or failing is brilliant.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hit Dice: Smaller than healing surges and randomized, which I think would be improvements to the original mechanic.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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