Comments on: Awesome Tactics, Bro http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200906/awesome_tactics_bro/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:16:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Burrowowl http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200906/awesome_tactics_bro/comment-page-1/#comment-94749 Burrowowl Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:55:34 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1726#comment-94749 Since the advent of game designers paying attention to what folks are saying on the Internet, people like WotC are getting way more wary of game effects that are broadly open to interpretation. Charm Person was a stupendously overpowered spell unless the DM went out of his way to make the big bad-guy explicitly immune to it, and when the bad-guys are immune to it, it's largely worthless. In the new D&D, you may as well just say "sure, any time it doesn't matter your Wizard can cast Charm Person at will." As for puzzles, they're still there in the published adventures and mentioned in the rulebooks. As for intrigue, I don't know what old D&D you're thinking of. D&D is mostly about spree-killing tomb robbers, as it's presented in the books. Always has been. Since the advent of game designers paying attention to what folks are saying on the Internet, people like WotC are getting way more wary of game effects that are broadly open to interpretation. Charm Person was a stupendously overpowered spell unless the DM went out of his way to make the big bad-guy explicitly immune to it, and when the bad-guys are immune to it, it’s largely worthless. In the new D&D, you may as well just say “sure, any time it doesn’t matter your Wizard can cast Charm Person at will.”

As for puzzles, they’re still there in the published adventures and mentioned in the rulebooks.

As for intrigue, I don’t know what old D&D you’re thinking of. D&D is mostly about spree-killing tomb robbers, as it’s presented in the books. Always has been.

]]> By: Bavette http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200906/awesome_tactics_bro/comment-page-1/#comment-94746 Bavette Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:00:18 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1726#comment-94746 Awesome sauce. Man, I weep in face of D&D new tragedy. Where are the Charm Persons? The puzzles? The intrigue? For as much Barbarian as I am, I cannot stop to notice how things went and are heading. Every wizard dead. Every force destroyed. Every subtle strength that did not require a number was eradicated... oh god. Awesome sauce. Man, I weep in face of D&D new tragedy.
Where are the Charm Persons? The puzzles? The intrigue?

For as much Barbarian as I am, I cannot stop to notice how things went and are heading. Every wizard dead. Every force destroyed. Every subtle strength that did not require a number was eradicated… oh god.

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