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<blockquote data-quote="Ondath" data-source="post: 8642523" data-attributes="member: 7031770">Matt Colville had mentioned in a Twitter thread how a game where misses are common is mostly indicative of a fast-paced combat system designed to be run with multiple players. If there are 6+ players itching to have their turn, it's best to have a system where there aren't a lot of choices, and it's alright if your turn whiffs since others can pick up the slack for you. But if every turn already takes a while and you spend a lot of brain power on making a good decision, it hurts more if nothing you did was effective that turn. I've seen players go absolutely forlorn when they just had bad luck for an entire turn and couldn't do anything, and I've been the sore player who got really annoyed when none of their efforts paid off. 5E's current design is really pushed towards the idea of you being an epic hero doing epic hero stuff, so I think people are right when they say that rolling a 2 and passing feels bad in the current edition. In older editions (or in OSR games), that's not so.Which does make me wonder if the math of the game should change in a modular system to replicate different play styles (and different suggested group sizes!)...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ondath, post: 8642523, member: 7031770"] Matt Colville had mentioned in a Twitter thread how a game where misses are common is mostly indicative of a fast-paced combat system designed to be run with multiple players. If there are 6+ players itching to have their turn, it's best to have a system where there aren't a lot of choices, and it's alright if your turn whiffs since others can pick up the slack for you. But if every turn already takes a while and you spend a lot of brain power on making a good decision, it hurts more if nothing you did was effective that turn. I've seen players go absolutely forlorn when they just had bad luck for an entire turn and couldn't do anything, and I've been the sore player who got really annoyed when none of their efforts paid off. 5E's current design is really pushed towards the idea of you being an epic hero doing epic hero stuff, so I think people are right when they say that rolling a 2 and passing feels bad in the current edition. In older editions (or in OSR games), that's not so. Which does make me wonder if the math of the game [I]should[/I] change in a modular system to replicate different play styles (and different suggested group sizes!)... [/QUOTE]

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