So I am still mostly seeing arguments saying food is "retarded" because it's "not realistic" and "not 5E" without actually addressing the fact that this is all fake anyway, you're perfectly fine with potions because "a wizard did it", and you can't eat 8 wheels of cheese in one sitting in real life. Do you know what I cannot do in real life? Firebolt, Speak with Dead/Animals, Bless/Bane or Ray of Enfeeblement.
People are making way, WAY too big of a deal about this. You're complaining about realism in a game series most known for a belt that changes your gender and a space hamster and saying that "Nope, eating a bunch of food is where I draw the line at believability!"
Also, again, if the combat was balanced for actual PnP 5e, this would be exceptionally boring as a video game. For as many people here scream about how they come from a D&D background and play 5e or whatever, you all seem to be completely forgetting that, in a lot of PnP campaigns, you get maybe one or two encounters in a 3-5 hour session, and that one fight can take an hour or more. That is awful video game design. Yeah, that will cater perfectly to the absolute D&D purists, but literally no one else, and there are not enough purists on the planet to ever break even on that game.
The sooner people get over the fact this was never going to be a 1:1 conversion of your personal D&D campaign and concessions need to be made for this to be an enjoyable standalone product, the sooner you can maybe actually just enjoy this is a game and not spend all day on the internet raging about extremely meaningless first-world problems like a cantrip doing a couple of points too much damage or getting a superior healing potion before level 5.
I bought EA and came to the forums because I expected everyone would be working in good faith to actually make the game better, but thus far all I've really seen is people complaining about how it's not a perfect representation of their personal tastes or rabidly adherent to the apparently holy scripture that is the player's handbook, and thus it's terrible and the developers are dumb and should cater specifically to them, and I am just getting absolutely exhausted by the deeply entitled whining.
The fact this is even a thread is ridiculous. This should be the most meaningless aspect of the entire game, but I've seen SO MANY people complain about it across so many threads now that it's become the perfect encapsulation of this wildly puritanical crusade.
Nice way to ignore the arguments people are making and then say there's no argument and your idea is therefore the best. Food is retarded because it adds dozens more items to an already shitty inventory management experience. DOS2 had the same problem with its 80+ varieties of food. I want to play a game, not a shitty inventory simulator.
