D&D 5E (2014) What rule(s) is 5e missing?

[Shardstone]

Psionics.

 

[tetrasodium]

For me, the issue is: is a haiku 'lazy' because I prefer an hundred page epic poem? Minimalist paintings? Those '5 ingredient' recipe books? Setting out to do something with a confined scope doesn't equate to lazy. Mind you, 'the <creators> intended it to be that way' is not a dodge of critique, and said minimalist thing can be (subjectively) genuinely bad, but that's a different beast than lazy.

If the recipes in those "5 ingredient recipe books" rely too heavily on on the spices leavening agents & so on being "to taste" to the point that the reader needs to complete the recipe more often than not it would be a recipe book worthy of the bad reviews

 

[Reynard]

If the recipes in those "5 ingredient recipe books" rely too heavily on on the spices leavening agents & so on being "to taste" to the point that the reader needs to complete the recipe more often than not it would be a recipe book worthy of the bad reviews

No, it would be more akin to giving a recipe book a bad review for not being a spy novel. When people want something to be something it is not, it isn't the creator of that thing who is at fault in the situation.

 

[pogre]

Domain management and large-scale combat is what comes to mind like you said, and it looks like we're about to get that soon.

Admittedly, I do not keep up with developments and tend to buy books as they come out...

What is going to have the domain and mass combat rules?

 

[Reynard]

Admittedly, I do not keep up with developments and tend to buy books as they come out...

What is going to have the domain and mass combat rules?

I think the Dragonlance board game thing is being marketed as a mass combat rules system that can be used with D&D generally. I haven't seen anything suggest domain management.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

And bards relegated to the appendix.

That's generous!

I would consign Bards to the Nyr Dyv, wearing cement shoes.

 

[Stormonu]

I want Skill Challenges and Minions back.

I mean, I already have them back in my own games. I just want them officially back.

I am happy without minions; they don't fit my playstyle. If others want them, couldn't you just give the monster the absolute minimum hit points, have it deal average/minimum damage and get mostly the same effect?

As for skill challenges, I occasionally just build my own version as it gives me ideas for various skills can be used and what their results would encompass - though a lot of times I just feel like its overly artificial.

 

[payn]

I am happy without minions; they don't fit my playstyle. If others want them, couldn't you just give the monster the absolute minimum hit points, have it deal average/minimum damage and get mostly the same effect?

As for skill challenges, I occasionally just build my own version as it gives me ideas for various skills can be used and what their results would encompass - though a lot of times I just feel like its overly artificial.

I am curious about minions too. Cant you just give them one hit point? Is there something more expansive than that which requires rules mechanics?

 

[Laurefindel]

Admittedly, I do not keep up with developments and tend to buy books as they come out...

What is going to have the domain and mass combat rules?i

Yeah, I wasn't very accurate. Like @Reynard said, I was mostly referring to the Dragonlance combat boardgame that has been hinted could cross-media with TTRPG D&D. Domain management rules are not on the radar AFAIK.

 

[Laurefindel]

That's generous!

I would consign Bards to the Nyr Dyv, wearing cement shoes.

But bards can cast water breathing... Well, the 5th level and up can at any case, so this might have a similar effect to a prematurely aborted antibiotic treatment; you'll kill all the low level ones, leaving only the strong ones to reproduce! I would reconsider.