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<blockquote data-quote="Xethreau" data-source="post: 9272161" data-attributes="member: 57584"><p>So I rather like both exploration and survival.</p><p></p><p>What I don't care for are superheroes. Increasingly, I am convinced that 5e and its spin-offs are about creating a bespoke fantasy-aesthetic superhero and showing off their cool attacks. (I am one bad afternoon away from calculating how many actions it takes to go from lvl 1 to 20.)</p><p></p><p>As I have discussed previously, <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-to-reach-20th-level-in-45-days-%E2%80%94-an-analysis-of-adventuring-day-per-character-level.690307/page-2#post-8713916" target="_blank">5e breaks resource management at a fundamental level</a> because PCs level-up more frequently than they need to take long rests. That is true for combat, but is all the more so for any kind of non-combat resource management.</p><p></p><p>Even in a game like A5e (and this blog post) which tries BOLDLY to address the absence of content for the exploration pillar, the involved procedures of exploration/resource management and the lack of (presumed) interest in it by the MCU/Critical Role generation have already done irrevocable harm to the 5e-family of rulesets. We are trying to add wheels to the wings of a Boeing.</p><p></p><p>All this to say, it appears to me that, with the overall system as it stands, there is no ammount of tracking Supply that could ever produce anything more than a surface-level emotion. And that is unexpected (or IMO desired), since exploration and survival are core human experiences which strike our deepest emotions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xethreau, post: 9272161, member: 57584"] So I rather like both exploration and survival. What I don't care for are superheroes. Increasingly, I am convinced that 5e and its spin-offs are about creating a bespoke fantasy-aesthetic superhero and showing off their cool attacks. (I am one bad afternoon away from calculating how many actions it takes to go from lvl 1 to 20.) As I have discussed previously, [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-to-reach-20th-level-in-45-days-%E2%80%94-an-analysis-of-adventuring-day-per-character-level.690307/page-2#post-8713916']5e breaks resource management at a fundamental level[/URL] because PCs level-up more frequently than they need to take long rests. That is true for combat, but is all the more so for any kind of non-combat resource management. Even in a game like A5e (and this blog post) which tries BOLDLY to address the absence of content for the exploration pillar, the involved procedures of exploration/resource management and the lack of (presumed) interest in it by the MCU/Critical Role generation have already done irrevocable harm to the 5e-family of rulesets. We are trying to add wheels to the wings of a Boeing. All this to say, it appears to me that, with the overall system as it stands, there is no ammount of tracking Supply that could ever produce anything more than a surface-level emotion. And that is unexpected (or IMO desired), since exploration and survival are core human experiences which strike our deepest emotions. [/QUOTE]
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