Originally Posted by Zenith
It's sort of incredible how people treat 5e as a religious text, as if it couldn't itself be the source of poor balance.

Case in point, the atrocity that is the Concentration mechanic. In what world is being forced into a Bless Bot (say good bye to using channel divinity spells, since they can't be used without cancelling Bless; and if you cancel Bless, have fun missing 1/3 of your spells) or having 95% of your druid spells be mutually exclusive because of concentration-- or that flame blade, a spell requiring one to be in melee range of multiple mobs, require concentration to maintain-- a remotely good and balanced design?

Some of you people are even arguing in favor of limiting rests. It's incredible how set you are on making a garbage videogame just so you can do a 3D rendering of a tabletop game which works with a group of friends and DM but is completely untenable as a single player RPG experience.

There's a pretty massive gulf between Larian looking at the 5th edition rules, finding an imbalance (lol) and changing a class or feature in BG3, and Larian making height advantage the most important aspect of combat for all classes, making scroll-casting universal, and filling the world with exploding barrels of napalm that are more effective than actual class skills.


A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
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