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Nah, 4th would have also been stellar for a turn based tactical RPG. Instead, they turned it into an action MMO? (Neverwinter). And, well, 5th has also been pretty good for video games (BG3 and Solasta were both pretty great).

I feel that this is more of a group problem than a system problem. I've played in multiple 5E games and had basically your expected experience, except that we rarely had to look rules up. The rules are pretty straightforward and uncomplicated, and we had several instances of rulings being made...

Oh, then we could just call it the "bonus die" from Call of Cthulhu. It's a fine mechanic not directly tied to 5E.

I mean, considering that it's only been an internet "thing" for like a month, you wouldn't have heard of it before now.

Optimized is subjective, as it depends on what it's optimized *for*. It's optimized for your needs, true, but for other people, it's less than optimal as they want/require more granularity. For instance, I like to have weapons (or, at least, items that go in your hand slots) to be separate from...

People zerg because they want to TR quickly. If the XP becomes more efficient spamming lower difficulty quests with less downtime to wait for stamina to regen, they will shift towards that. This won't fix the zerging problem. The game lacks interdependence because the majority of people who play...

Yeah, this. This is akin to playing ARPGs like Diablo or Path of Exile, grinding for the perfect rolls on the piece of gear that you want. You'll settle for the base piece of gear with around the right stats, but if you want, you can keep hunting for the god roll drop. That's what rare loot...

That reminds me of when World of Warcraft Classic came out. For years, classic/vanilla players had been talking about how hard classic WoW was, and how Retail made everything easy - but, the truth of the matter was, classic was easy, too. We just didn't have the knowledge then that we have now...

To be fair, I understand how strong haste boost is. I just don't push it because I don't remember to, because I often don't need it. If anything, I can see it for a new player as part of the learning curve. I don't think a new player needs to have everything dumped on them up front, with all the...

Hey, I'm one too. I just...forget to use it. I keep thinking to use it more, but then, I just forget again.

My (admittedly ignorant) shot in the dark is that it's probably flag based. If you're VIP, the flag for access to specific VIP unlock content is a "Yes" or "True". And when you cancel your VIP status, that flag is supposed to flip to "No" or "False" - but, in this case, it didn't, for some...

Well, not to be contrarian, it might be useful to know what you specifically think needs reworking.

That's the stance I generally go with. I look at value versus time - how much entertainment am I getting for the price per hour. So, for DDO, (or really, most MMOs with a sub (optional or not)), I realize I get a lot of playtime for what I spend. Yeah, sure, the Ultimate Bundle is pricy - for...

And with each Big Mac containing two 1.6 ounce patties, 1 billion pounds of beef could produce 5 billion Big Macs. So, yeah, it's not a big jump for that number to make sense. According to every source I can find, they are. If you've got a source that confirms otherwise, please, by all means...

I don't normally play hardcore in any game...but this idea would probably change that.

Instantly bookmarked. Not playing currently, but when I do, I'm going to try to use this.

It's a stacking 1% bonus per year! Absolutely ridiculous. Why couldn't they just hard bake a 10 or 20% increase into VIP and call it a day? And, it only affects whether a named item will appear, not that it will be the one that you want. With each quest having multiple named items that will...

To kind of couple onto this...if you have a Potion of Discovery to up your named loot chances, and then you hit the chest ransack...what do you do? You don't want to waste the potion, because they're rare. So, when I was trying to get a specific item I just...stopped playing for a week so I...

Unfortunately, I am cursed with a troubling excess of curiosity.

I made the mistake of reading the thread you posted. ...I think I need to go lie down.