Yeah, but clinical depression doesn't distort what affected person perceives as facts, only their emotional valence.
Explanation: 5e is designed to pander to the WoW crowd.Any LORE explanation to why things are far lower level on 5e?
I mean, on 2e D&D Strahd von Zarovich is a 16th level necromancer, capable of launching tier 8 magic and with far nastier magical abilities. On 5e, he can only cast spells up to tier 5, no vampiric level drain, and to name SOME abilities of him and note that on Barovia, magical weapons are rare. Finding a +2 weapon on a Ravenloft campaign is not easy. - Ravenloft - Domains of Dread
On 5e, he can only cast tier 5 magic and note that tier 5 magic on 5e is far less deadly than 5th tier magic on 2e. And if you look into Strahd lore, he was considered before the "fall" a mage of "mediocre" skill, a lv 5 mage which many people consider a fully fledged wizard on 5e.
And is not only casting. Tiamat stats seems honestly seems weaker than DEMON LORDS on previous editions. Mindflayers seems like a common mid level creature and so on.
Any LORE explanation to why things are far lower level on 5e?
I mean, on 2e D&D Strahd von Zarovich is a 16th level necromancer, capable of launching tier 8 magic and with far nastier magical abilities. On 5e, he can only cast spells up to tier 5, no vampiric level drain, and to name SOME abilities of him and note that on Barovia, magical weapons are rare. Finding a +2 weapon on a Ravenloft campaign is not easy. - Ravenloft - Domains of Dread.
On 5e, he can only cast tier 5 magic and note that tier 5 magic on 5e is far less deadly than 5th tier magic on 2e. And if you look into Strahd lore, he was considered before the "fall" a mage of "mediocre" skill, a lv 5 mage which many people consider a fully fledged wizard on 5e. And i an not even talking about the spells which he knows on 2e, his contingency, clone, finger of death, antimagic shell, limited Wish, force cage, teleport and so on. All nasty spells which in the hands of a good DM can easily end a mid to high level party.
And is not only casting. Tiamat stats seems honestly seems weaker than DEMON LORDS on previous editions. Mindflayers seems like a common mid level creature and so on.
Attempting LORE explanation for every minor abstract mechanical detail is one of the major weaknesses of D&D.
4e called. It wants its stupid back.
Last time, when I tried to look up the rules, I saw no cool downs with real time action combat with enemies that have bloated stats, so your argument is shit and invalid.
No can do. 5e has it in a death grip.
Sure.
Intellectual property is theft.
Pretty much everything is preferable to combat leveling.
Gary Gygax himself in 1985 had begun consideration of how to develop a 2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons from the existing AD&D rulebooks and of the various alterations desired in terms of corrections, new rules, additional information, and redesign. In fact, Gygax actually wrote an article for Dragon Magazine on this very subject, titled "The future of the game: What the Second Edition books will be like", which ironically appeared in issue #103 (November 1985), the month after he had been ousted from TSR. As with the original AD&D rulebooks, Gygax would have published the 2nd edition books one at a time, starting with a Monster Manual that would combine material from the original, the Fiend Folio, the Monster Manual II, and other TSR publications, followed by a Players Handbook that would add portions from Unearthed Arcana and Oriental Adventures (plus completely new material, such as mystic, savant, and jester subclasses), and completed with a Dungeon Masters Guide. If anything, the change in TSR's leadership actually delayed initiation of the 2nd edition's development, so that the three AD&D 2nd edition core rulebooks did not appear until mid-1989 (nearly simultaneously).
What does this have to do with them screwing Gygax out of his royalties?
1. Gygax would have created a 2nd edition AD&D if he had maintained control of TSR.
