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Message: <blockquote data-quote="p_johnston" data-source="post: 8723741" data-attributes="member: 7016849">So a few things to note first1) I like 5e a lot. I still run and play 5e. So everything I'm about to say comes from a place of love and wishing 5e was even better then it already is.2) I doubt anything I say here will not have been covered somewhere in the previous 25 pages but I still wanna chime in.Things WRONG with 5e--- indexing, organization, and just generally finding any one specific rule or item. Just finding a specific rule in the players handbook is bad enough. When I also have to search through the DM's guide, Tasha's, and Xanathars it's just a hassle. At this point I just google rules if I have a question rather then even attempting to dive into the books.--- A lack of clarity about what the game is designed to do and does best. ( 5e does best as a sort of dungeon crawl where you can have your 6-8 encounters a day with a couple of short rests to heal and let the short rest classes recharge. A type of game where it is mostly combat with a sprinkling of other activities to spruce up the space between. The problem is the game is does a very poor job of telling DM's that and helping them with how to adjust for other types of games.)--- Some unclear or confusing or just plain fiddly rules. Things like the difference between and a melee weapon attack and an attack with a melee weapon, or the fact that you have a free item interaction but only one and after that it's an action to do something (and also what exactly constitutes an item interaction), or the fact that if you use a bonus action to cast a spell you can only cast a cantrip with your main action, or the entire encounter building and CR system, etc, etc.Things that aren't necessarily wrong but still annoy me.--- The game has bounded accuracy, except for a few spells/abilities that just choose to ignore it and give static pluses anyways.--- 90% of monsters are boring.--- Despite this monsters stat blocks are still somehow to big and have to much useless information.--- The game has one dial and it's called dis/advantage. The problem being once that dial has been turned there is no use trying anything else creative at all.--- After creation characters are largely linear with very few actually important choices when leveling up.--- Leveling up is lackluster and boring except for a few key levels.--- Both of the above are much worse for any non spellcasting class.--- The six save system doesn't work very well and tends to end up "we have 3 big saves, 1 medium save, and 2 saves that get used for maybe maybe 20 things across the entire game."--- Most of the mechanics for the social/exploration sections of the game are A) non existent B) not very (In my opinion) very good or C) Come down to a single roll.and whole bunch of other stuff that I'm not going into because I've spent to long writing this already.Things that are 100% just my personal preference.--- I really dislike save or suck spells. I don't like using them on my players and I don't like when players use it on big bosses. Either way ends up with someone having less fun.--- I'm not a huge fan of the d20 as a core dice. I prefer 3d6 or maybe some sort of dice pool system.--- Why do we still have ability scores instead of just finding the bonus's directly? I think there are a handful of mechanics in the entire game that actually care about the score itself and none of those are player facing.And probably some I'm forgetting.</blockquote>

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