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D&D General 5.5 and making the game easier for players and harder for DMs
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I don’t notice people saying that.
I think more often people are like me - “meh” on the monoculture that is 5e - it’s OK, we’ll play but I prefer something else.
Actively think 5e is the worst isn’t a common opinion I’ve noticed.
And Gary was from Wisconsin, so Grognards prefer brats.
And Kringle. But probably not at the same sitting.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
I just went over the expert classes looking to see if the DM was advocated for at all and found the following.
"Making an Ability Check requires you to take an Action unless a rule says otherwise. Several of the named Actions—such as Hide and Influence—include Ability Checks.
The DM may override this requirement and allow a particular Ability Check to be made as part of a Bonus Action or as no Action at all." - Tells the player that the DM can override the rules.
"The DM determines the Difficulty Class of an Ability Check and can override a DC specified in the rules." - Tells the player that the DM can override the rules.
"The DM determines whether a d20 Test is warranted in any given circumstance." - Tells the player that only the DM can have a d20 test happen.
"The DM may determine that other things count as Difficult Terrain based on the examples here." - Tells the player that the listed items are not the only way to achieve difficult terrain and the DM decides.
"To give this assistance, you must be near enough to the ally to assist verbally or physically when the ally makes the check. The DM has final say on whether your assistance is possible." - Tells the player that the DM has final say.
"The adventurers need to succeed on one or more challenging Charisma Checks to convince a Hostile creature to do anything on the party’s behalf; however, the DM might determine that the Hostile creature is so ill-disposed toward
the characters that no Charisma Check can sway it, in which case the first check fails automatically and no further Influence attempts can be made on the creature unless its Attitude shifts." - Tells the player that the DM can just say no to the attempt.
"Similarly, if the interaction is particularly irksome to the creature, the DM might impose Disadvantage on your subsequent check or might temporarily shift a Friendly creature to Indifferent or an Indifferent creature to Hostile." - Tells the player that the DM can just ignore testing for influence and just shift the creature's attitude.
Those are more clearly written examples of DM authority over the game than are in the 2014 PHB or even the DMG. That looks like DM support to me.
Edit: The UA 8 which is the most recent one I have similarly has language indicating absolute DM authority over the rules.
"When choosing a new form, you may look in the Monster Manual or elsewhere for eligible Beasts if the DM permits you to do so."
"Worn equipment functions as normal, but the DM decides whether it is practical for the new form to wear a piece of equipment based on the creature’s size and shape.
And so on.
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jerryrice4949
Hero
I wish. I don’t mind a good debate. I see more of the complaining ‘the game isn’t for me’ (whatever that means), ‘making the game harder for the DM’ (I think taken out of context) in these boards then solid debates.This post is insufficient. People also like to argue.
Had to use a shovel to dig down pretty far there. Not designing PC abilities to be explicitly adversarial in their nature is an extremely low bar and I was talking specifically about the game rules. As to the second stab at the influence action that is not an effort to productively advocate for the GM so much as finding that they were rejected in their initial effort to steamroll the GM by wasting time "play testing" a rule that would have left no s deep into the upper ends of the ability score cap helpless putty im the hands of low level charisma based PCs with expertise persuade . The first one was an absolute failure to advocate for the GM and that becomes immediately obvious at first glance if you do much as spend the briefest of moments considering what the resulting optimized PC capabilities against plausible npc capabilities.
I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure that this is the thread where wotc's gold standard happy go lucky ultra unoptimized PC builds was raised. That might be the norm in wotc's deliberately sabotaged builds, but it's a vanishingly small segment of players and very much not the best that the game should be designed around. We would have two or only one version of a l reasonable rule had they been proactively advocating for the gm rather than following upon the only PCs grit efforts at testing the water to see what could slip through
Remathilis
Legend
And it's less fun when you don't.
Oofta
Legend
Want to ask for advice? Give advice? Discuss that advice? Just discuss the latest or get and give feedback? Coolio.
But if it's "The game isn't challenging enough" and people give multiple ways to increase the challenge, responding "The game is on easy mode" isn't having a discussion. There are a lot of ways to run the game. What works for me may not work for thee but at least try to meet people halfway!
Ah well, people can of course post whatever they want. I just don't see the point sometimes.
Oofta
Legend
Especially if you plan on playing the PC for a year or more.
cbwjm
Seb-wejem
Typically there will be cheers or cries of disbelief as we watch each other roll up stats, it's part of the fun of playing.
