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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9130650" data-attributes="member: 5142">IMHO, the fundamental design quality of 5e D&amp;D isn't about being &quot;heroic.&quot; It's about &quot;bounded accuracy.&quot; Pathfinder 2 and 4e D&amp;D lean heavily into the &quot;heroic,&quot; especially the feeling of being &quot;big [darn] heroes&quot; as the PCs level, but they don't do so through bounded accuracy, so they produce a very different feeling of &quot;heroic&quot; than 5e D&amp;D because of its bounded accuracy. This is one reason why I think that the idea that 5e D&amp;D can do everything is flawed. It often overlooks the massive impact that bounded accuracy has on the tone and timbre of any game that uses its framework. In the unpopular opinions thread, I made a recent comment that saying that a game can do any setting is about like saying that a pig can wear any color of lipstick. This gets to the heart of what I meant by that. The 5e framework of &quot;bounded accuracy&quot; (among other things) is the pig that you are getting no matter what shade of lipstick it is wearing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 9130650, member: 5142"] IMHO, the fundamental design quality of 5e D&D isn't about being "heroic." It's about "bounded accuracy." Pathfinder 2 and 4e D&D lean heavily into the "heroic," especially the feeling of being "big [darn] heroes" as the PCs level, but they don't do so through bounded accuracy, so they produce a very different feeling of "heroic" than 5e D&D because of its bounded accuracy. This is one reason why I think that the idea that 5e D&D can do everything is flawed. It often overlooks the massive impact that bounded accuracy has on the tone and timbre of any game that uses its framework. In the unpopular opinions thread, I made a recent comment that saying that a game can do any setting is about like saying that a pig can wear any color of lipstick. This gets to the heart of what I meant by that. The 5e framework of "bounded accuracy" (among other things) is the pig that you are getting no matter what shade of lipstick it is wearing. [/QUOTE]

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