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I agree, it was notable though because the thing described was more an excuse to continue justifying the elimination of death spiral by hp loss with a likely unworkable "optional" mechanic almost guaranteed to to nothing or merit or be so burdensome nobody wants to use it.

Wow... you are demonstrating the problem of how the default invites players to poison the social dynamic and can't even discuss it without twisting the point into something that paints the gm as some kind of monster killer gm. I ran 2e and 3.x. even PC's died it was a neutral thing because...

My "complaint" about that is not the fact that it exists... It's the fact that it's the only optional rule and 5.24 still designed the base for coziest of cozie death drying and recovery base rules. It's too easy for any other player to pop up a downed pc at jo opportunity cost to their action...

Going by the latter=last rormer=first rule of thumb people often forget, ugh.... An idea like "A PC 'bloodied' mechanic in a similar vein of exhaustion inflicting distinct penalties" feels like it's oozing with the kind of cognitive dissonance and cross purpose design that you get when the...

Sure. The original question "do you think DnD ought to try implement anything that curbs the 'the only hit point that matters is the last one' mentality where you run at 100% effectiveness right up until you're making death" is extremely different depending on how you interpret a few things...

Like putting the mere possibility of non-fiat death spiral being the result of players choosing to act recklessly back in the GM's toolbox by undoing the god awful mechanics that stripped it away or something else?

The what are hit points argument is indeed old (and stupid), but I think that up until 5e it still felt like it was a risk just being at low HP. Death save supplied absorb shields and explosive total recovery resting rules changed that though and even being at one hp doesn't invoke any feelings...

While You're technically correct that the rules don't explicitly spell out the thing max has been claiming... He is entirely correct that in actual play the turn by turn action by action result is that only the last hit has any meaningful impact. The whole demand for exact wording shows the...

That's a self inflicted wound forces upon d&d by Hasbro/wotc execs who are widely reported to not play d&d not the merit you are lauding it as.

Tiefling popularity is pure shameless CharOp a race with a free cantrip resistance to one of the more common energy types and a bonus to the attribute used by the 3-4 most mix-n-match multiplicative multiclass CharOp bingo classes. 5e is weaker for spending years pretending that the thin...

Just from quickly skimming the rough/early WiP player's guide mearls put out with his most recent post I'll say that oddesy is looking very much like it could the higher bar 5.24 should have aimed for over the compatibility above all or else bar we got

Mmos are decades behind doing online d&d on a computer. Muds like dikumud got that ball rolling way back when the Internet wasn't really even called that mmos like EverQuest that came after ultima online were pretty much extending that experience with graphics. Wow doubled down on the strategy...

I might be misremembering but new. Iirc it for mentioned in a recent video where it got described as a dungeon crawler where players go into a pit to find treasure for reasons not coming to mind

Ive considered it as well and even started spit balling it at one point but 5e really went out of its way to make it hard for someone to make that kind of change without going past major homebrew into full on fantasy heartbreaker. For all of the empty lip service that Crawford gave us over the...

Having to prepare spells slot by slot was orders of magnitude better for both the health of gameplay as well as encouraging players to plan to work together then follow through with doing so in service of competence porn teamwork. That applied to both casters and noncasters because both...

The OP wasn't exactly accurate with what mearls wrote. It was more of a well deserved thumping of an ugly hack that replaced something more elegant but more complex in past editions than a barb directed at control spells.

Depends on if the "sourcebook" contains actual rules to support the setting or if it's just a lazy copy-paste of setting top of a basically stock 5e. Granted I have almost zero doubt about we which of those would be contained within the book on question

No I violently disagree and in failing to demonstrate what the PCs still need within 5e you confirmed the problem. A setting can not be built and expect to run on chewing gum like "expect extremely enthusiastic player buy-in or blame the players". The system itself said "give the players what...

The baseline is not really compatible with the question imo. I can't think of any conceptually coherent setting that could be designed to fit 5e PCs rather than simply managing to continue functioning in spite of the fact that the PCs are the very embodiment of starfish aliens with no ties to...

On the tangent of 5es hp inflation trying to make up for monsters they are not adequately stated for appropriate defense, I think we've seen better solutions in the past. As clunky and lolbroke as the system itself can be, I think that the HP/MDC divide I. Rifts is a far more elegant solution...