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<blockquote data-quote="Cernor" data-source="post: 6530706" data-attributes="member: 6780066">What were you expecting 5e to be like? That is, what do you think WotC promised, and how did you get that impression? I'm asking because I only got into D&amp;D a couple of months before 5e released, so I didn't follow the news during the playtest at all.What old-school mechanics are you looking to reproduce? Save-or-die effects have been replaced with save-or-save-or-die, which is IMO good for avoiding anticlimactic deaths at higher levels (like a basilisk petrifying the party cleric who's the only one who can reverse petrification). If you want them, simply take away the second save, and BOOM! Save-or-die is back.If it's about having an army of hirelings and followers (something I've been led to believe was mandatory back in O/AD&amp;D), you can still do that in 5e, but it isn't the default anymore. Maybe after 40 years, they've learned that people prefer to be Big Damn Heroes who act as a (mostly) self-sufficient band.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cernor, post: 6530706, member: 6780066"] What were you expecting 5e to be like? That is, what do you think WotC promised, and how did you get that impression? I'm asking because I only got into D&D a couple of months before 5e released, so I didn't follow the news during the playtest at all. What old-school mechanics are you looking to reproduce? Save-or-die effects have been replaced with save-or-save-or-die, which is IMO good for avoiding anticlimactic deaths at higher levels (like a basilisk petrifying the party cleric who's the only one who can reverse petrification). If you want them, simply take away the second save, and BOOM! Save-or-die is back. If it's about having an army of hirelings and followers (something I've been led to believe was mandatory back in O/AD&D), you can still do that in 5e, but it isn't the default anymore. Maybe after 40 years, they've learned that people prefer to be Big Damn Heroes who act as a (mostly) self-sufficient band. [/QUOTE]

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