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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8719485" data-attributes="member: 86653">Exploration is a joke. Everything "challenging" about it is easily obviated by basic class abilities, backgrounds, and cantrips. To say nothing of various low-level spells and easily obtainable magic items. Fixing this requires a few pages of house rules. I should know, I wrote some.Social skills are terribly handled. They're often used as mind control and telepathy. Social interactions are the most mechanically supported they've ever been...yet the specific mechanics are still lackluster at best. Could be fixed with more robust social interaction and encounter rules.Too many races with darkvision. Easy fix. Bring back low-light vision and give that to the races who don't live underground. Keep darkvision for races who mostly or exclusively live underground.The monsters are undertuned. The CR system is laughably broken. The medium encounter is a joke. Combat doesn't start getting even marginally challenging until somewhere past deadly. The best fix is to use higher CR monsters than suggested, ignore the CR system, and/or use deadly as the new medium.PCs have way too much power way too early in the game. Short of forcing everyone to start as a survivor or a sidekick, the best solution is to slow down leveling and use the monster, CR, and encounter fix above.Death is wildly too easy to avoid. High hit points, easy recovery, clerics and others dirty with healing, death saves, easy access to resurrection magic. Too many potential fixes to consider. Cap hit points at 9th level or lower. Use gritty realism as the standard rest mechanics. Remove death saves. Characters at zero hp are dying and the referee rolls 1d4. They die after that many rounds. The players don't know how many rounds that will be. Remove several of the more potent and healbot healing spells.Resting recovers too much and they're far too easy to come by. Especially with ridiculous spells like Leomund's Tiny Hut. There's no meaningful single encounter in an adventuring day unless a character dies because all their stuff regenerates after an 8-hour nap. The best fix is gritty realism and banning Leomund's Tiny Hut.</blockquote>

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