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and yet you expect WotC to give you a guide on how to create good ones? Sounds more like they do not really know how to do that either (and the Vecna one is a good example of that)

I am not sure anyone has found a working formula for high level yet that works for a wider audience, and D&D imo makes it near impossible for it to exist

why? If anything 2024 looks a lot like races frequently live together

how simple does it need to be for that? 13th Age, Daggerheart, and Draw Steel (among others) all seem to go for that niche

not sure what you mean, I doubt marketing insists on having Orcus in the MM or an adventure

I’d wager most people are not that interested in high level play, or there would be more demand for it. That also explains why there are few adventures for it (that, and most high level adventures suck) Even if it is just that things fall apart before most groups reach level 15, that still...

given that most adventures end around level 12, that does not appear to be an issue

and those relatives are mentioned in the official lore? If not, why can’t you have some for a dragonborn too?

and I disagree how extensive, your group? That is called anecdotal. Also, have you tried that with truly / intentionally unbalanced games? at which point whoever needs to feel superior to enjoy the game might not be in a position to, but yeah, I am certainly not going to play X so someone who...

if using a d10 instead of a d8 or adding a + to something is a mechanic, then everything is a mechanic. In that case, yeah so what, tweak the mechanics to achieve balance. Balance is more important than some unsocialized jerks being able to feel superior because they could bully others into...

balance is independent, you can increase the bonuses, add feats or whatever to a class, and if that needs new mechanics, add ones that thematically work for it and there is nothing that convinces me that someone who wrote that it is good to cater to people who is right about what is a...

no it isn’t, especially since balance is kinda independent from mechanics and a thematically well designed class

agreed, which means it probably is less acceptable for a sword than for a more complex and less reliable weapon like an early gun, and yet no one complained about the chance of rolling a 1 per round increasing with your number of attacks, but somehow for a gun that is a problem

are there people who want to be worse than others (rather than just willing to ‘work through’ as you said) ? Otherwise those people get their wish to the detriment of everyone else What if they are not the only one in their group with that attitude?

yes, but the chance of misfire is for the gun. You use it more, you misfire more yes, because the chance of misfire is tied to the gun, not their skill level Same as rolling a 1 on a d20, the more often you roll, the more often it will come up, even though you get more skilled with your sword...