Recent content by tetrasodium

I have to agree. I run a lot of AL here in Florida (2x/week) and the players tend to be either really young (elementary to middle school) maybe with nerd parents or old enough to drink. At least in this part of the state* kids in high school need a certain number of hours doing volunteer stuff...

I Read this in traffic and don't think I disagree with what I think I read, except there is a very big but that poses significant problems to nearly all of it. Power gaming without those elements of social awareness and such tends to devolve towards a style of play normally only lauded or even...

While one could say that "I think X is a problem because of $specificMechanic $specificResult & how it causes $specificProblems" is an opinion. There is a difference between a disagreement based entirely on opinion that doesn't even attempt at any support beyond mere preference and a...

To a degree I think that something entirely different has been established. Specifically the fact that 5e's simplifications & streamlined class design has elevated munchkinism to a point where it is now indistinguishable from & accepted as powergaming. Post 304 shows quite clearly how...

That bit about "broken combos" is pretty central to a lot of the "powergamer" CharOp hate being thrown around in recent posts, but it's critical to differentiate the difference between "being aware of" & "abusing to negative results". More often than not in my experience (especially in 5e☆) the...

No, that is a spotlight hog, possibly one with social skills that are rather tone deaf to those around them. In fact there's no better evidence for that than a video from TreantMonk himself explaining the origin of the "god wizard" as a concept... It starts with . [/spoiler]

I'm aware of what it does, but it doesn't do anything if PCs only have general feat or ASI choices. Combat and noncombat is too broad of a sorting to add more feat choices to PCs

I thing that's the wrong direction. If the availability isn't expanded in meaningful ways it doesn't really matter to have feats tagged with something that is only functionally useful for sorting the list of feats on ddb. 3.x did a good job of accomplishing the job of expanding feat access...

Him asked how many pages. The fact that you dodged with "a small section in two books" is telling. They just put out a full book of magic items to give you a ballpark for starting with. It's absolutely a failure of design to be putting out an entire book of something unsupported by the...

Perjaps they should gpo all in on supporting your preference by including zero feats and zero magic items How many pages do you think 75 feats and who knows how many magic items take up? Providing the GM with "guidance" on how to fix the game after not taking the heat for banning a defacto...

I was running AL twice a week when CoS was the "season".... It's still not a thing with any reasonable chance. He's overlooking why they are there, what they are doing, and how they interact with the party to throw a hook that is little more than "go kill some stuff[where the most will grab...

I'm aware, but the details and specific goals are a little scant when you try looking deeper than a description like "better". Heck they are still walking on eggshells to maintain feats in their "optional" state and haven't exactly been open about if magic items will be expected in monster math...

Trouble is that the game was designed so the GM is equipped with monsters & challenges suited to PCs hitting a bar far below the one PCs actually punch. The idea that feats are "optional" and that the baseline should be deliberate self sabotage levels of CharOp during character creation because...

It's only an issue in AL if the player doesn't read the ALPG (adventurer's league players guide) I've run enough AL to be fairly confident that this subset of "disgruntled" players can be blamed on some flavor or combination of these: RTFM(it's four pages & one of them is for setting...

While true, that's not addressing the point I was making This feels like you are moralizing through a roleplay vrs rollplay sort of jab or you are not making a clear enough point to see how it has anything to do with the post you quoted. In fact you are so far from the point I'm not even sure...