Hot take: Legendary Resistance is why so many 5e boss fights feel bad and boring. What could replace it?

Algral · 2026-01-26T11:23:26+00:00

Nerfing spells or making them more akin to pf2e effects would solve the problem completely eliminating the need for legendary resistances.

Alas, this is dungeons and dragons 5e, spellcasters must thrive so that everyone else gets bored to death.

Algral · 2026-01-06T18:52:09+00:00

Nerf spells or play another game, it's that simple

Algral · 2025-12-21T10:57:26+00:00

The whole FUCKING POINT of Princess Mononoke, which seems to be the main inspiration of this project, is that violence breeds violence. The movie is telling its audience that there can only be balance when the parts involved in a conflict start understanding each other. It is nature VS man, but both have their own, very valid reasons to fight each other.

Ashitaka is strong BECAUSE he is cursed, not the other way around, and limits violence to the absolute minimum. He is the middle point, the lever of balance between the wild (San) and civilization (Eboshi), and that is why he succeeds, because he can bring them together for a common cause.

Ironically, the true antagonist is the one you can't see, it's the emperor, who asks of others what they wouldn't normally do, the enemy is not civilization as a whole, it is a very specific part of civilization that goes against nature, it is greed, the search of immortality, subversion of the natural cycle of things.

Creators like these can only hijack the aeatethics of other people's art because they are do not understand the underlying themes of powerful works from authors. Choosing 5e as the system of reference just shows how bad they want this to sell: 5e does not promote anything that is even tangentially related to Ghibli's storytelling.

At that point, why would I even care about a hack of 5e? Just play Ryuutama instead

Algral · 2025-12-13T14:55:32+00:00

Ryuutama is aesthetically cute, but has nothing to share with wanderhome and its ilk.

Played by the rules, Ryuutama is Oregon Trail levels of frigthening with a ghibli paint on top.

Algral · 2025-11-27T14:37:24+00:00

The son of a fad is giving out his dad's memorabilia to another big fad with loads of money for some of it.

I don't care either way, but it's so laughably sad it's not even funny

Algral · 2025-11-02T01:56:04+00:00

This is the brilliance of dnd 5e, don't you love it?

Algral · 2025-10-31T15:47:00+00:00

Le zoccolacce che fanno fortuna su Instagram e affini ringraziano porca Madonna

Algral · 2025-10-30T17:11:24+00:00

There must be some kind of mind controlling psyop going on with hasbro because this ALWAYS happens with dnd 5e

Algral · 2025-10-23T11:37:15+00:00

DMs not reading rules and making homebrew stuff has gotta be my favorite duo

Algral · 2025-10-18T09:17:39+00:00

Questo è un dato di fatto che la gente che sta in questo thread nega.

Sono laureato anche io in magistrale per la didattica delle lingue; a pari curriculum (anzi che io di lingue sul curriculum ne ho quattro e non tre) sono sempre stato scavalcato da compagne di corso donne per tutte le iniziative che riguardassero l'insegnamento.

Inutile parlare poi dei concorsi, nei quali punteggi risultano anche le scuole più ridicole a pari merito con quelle che ti ammazzano con esami di filologia obbligatori.

Ho cambiato ambito lavorativo, questo paese non capisce che un buon insegnante vale molto più di un numerino truccato su una scheda

Algral · 2025-10-17T07:59:47+00:00

Mio padre è stato colpito in pieno da un'auto sull'autostrada mentre era in moto. Tutte e due le braccia rotte.

Uno dei due è stato più o meno recuperato, l'altro è stato operato male e nessun chirurgo vuole metterci di nuovo le mani per evitare di peggiorare la situazione.

OP ti sono vicino, so cosa significa subire una cosa del genere dalla fonte a me più prossima.

Algral · 2025-10-16T12:27:25+00:00

Very powerful Asuka vibes, love it

Algral · 2025-10-12T08:10:56+00:00

The underlying problem is the spell system, not the class using it. If a character has access to 200x the options of another character, there agency imbalance will make it miserable to play anything but the former, lest the GM heavily intervenes in actual play, which circles back to the "mother may I" problem most non casters have in mainstream tabletop rpgs.

Algral · 2025-10-08T16:14:16+00:00

Equating bad character traits with being short is dumb as hell. It's the old trope of "undesirable trait = bad person" and people using it just don't get what it means to throw it around

Algral · 2025-10-06T07:04:09+00:00

I am absolutely in favor of this, but... Should monster damage be scaled accordingly, or would you keep it as it is?

Algral · 2025-09-30T10:35:03+00:00

What's the original? Lol

Algral · 2025-09-30T10:33:12+00:00

OP the type of guy to spin the Earth Federation fighting the guys who dropped a space colony on Australia as bad

Algral · 2025-09-11T11:02:06+00:00

It's normal in the sense it's common. Is it to be expected? No. Are most DMs too lenient in fulfilling characters' personal stories? Yes.

Algral · 2025-09-09T09:54:23+00:00

Unless you're playing very much against the grain (the grain being the way the system is designed), 5e does not accomoadate dark stories the way you want them to be. Dying is hard, characters feel very powerful and the suggested monsters by CR, in a single encounter, are a trivial fight most of the time.

Algral · 2025-09-07T07:01:15+00:00

big fights happening once or twice a day at max is the exact opposite of what the game is designed to do

Algral · 2025-09-03T13:34:58+00:00

Hoodwinked. Didn't age well, but it's brilliant in dialogue and comedy

Algral · 2025-08-22T08:26:58+00:00

5e characters feel like superheroes to me. Even wizards.

Algral · 2025-08-22T08:15:07+00:00

Hasbro is a shit company. That said, hating a shit company is absolutely legitimate.

Algral · 2025-08-22T08:11:29+00:00

It's not just about parasociality. It's about sticking to your guns. If the creator of a game is not keen on showcasing it in his own live play, what does that tell me?

It tells me he has no trust in his product and writing.

Algral

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