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oh, there are several reasons why high level play is rare, sure. That it also is broken / hard to DM in the first place is not helping however I think games that limit themselves to 10 levels had the right idea, whether those are 1-10 or 5-20 with accelerated progression is up to what you are...

and you do not consider the wheels coming off on the highway a design flaw? What about not telling anyone that the car is only semi-safe in the city and closer to a deathtrap on highways? It's not just boss monsters, high level play is the issue, the issue is at least as much on the character /...

once you find it, I doubt it also doubles as a good supplement

being easy to prep definitely is a feature. Even the walls of text are not explicitly trying to make that difficult for a reason

because they were irrelevant or because they explicitly do not have them?

guess the campaign is not going as well as initially expected / hoped

except that in the analogy being level 15 is not illegal… and depending on the country driving 80 mph is not either

I assume that if the rules say to disclose this, many DMs in fact would, 5e or not The problem is 5e, not the DMs

I am not sure about that, but WotC definitely was not interested in creating one. For that sales have to tank first

from the perspectiver of someone playing to 12, yes, from the perspective of a designer who designs up to 20, no. As to arithmetical progressions beyond that, I am not sure anyone expect those to hold up great. I doubt they will, even though it is pretty obvious that that is what they did...

I don’t think it is a setting, it’s the stuff that connects different settings, so you can go from one to the other. As the KS said ‘The Labyrinth Worldbook provides something new in 5E tabletop, a campaign overlay. It is a means to connect together as many existing campaign settings as you...

20 levels aren’t exactly open ended though they are also the easier ones to balance. I just don’t think a ‘we tried’ gets you much when the game falls apart around level 10 or 12 despite having 20 of those things.

I don’t know, if you designed a car where the wheels come off at high speeds, I don’t think the defense ‘but only 10% or so ever get to those speeds, this is good design’ would get much traction…

I agree, it would be cheaper, esp. if you want to go high fantasy. It’s just that I would prefer live action maybe I will give them a shot, so far I just never was interested, and it being animated definitely plays a role in that… Need something new while I am on the treadmill anyway ;) i did...

I’d definitely prefer that, but I am not ruling out that WotC says ‘use one of these two’, why else even have them as subclasses in the UA?

haven’t watched them. I was more thinking along the lines of Pixar animation for something to watch ;)

depending on how wide the net you want to cast is, you could also look at adjacent games like 13th Age (probably not for you…), Shadow of the Weird Wizard / Demon Lord, Vagabond, or Shadowdark (ordered from least to most OSR-ish). They might work better for you than the 5e variants

FR are not really a homebrew setting I'd rather have a good live action show, probably not gonna bother with an animated show

not impossible, I still think the subclasses had issues however, esp. the preserver

that depends on how you played back then, we already did not like / tried to avoid character death in the early 80s when we started playing, and not just on the player side. I think the high lethality dungeon crawls were more a short period in the 70s and the game gradually drifted away from...