October 2023 Sly Flourish Patreon Q&A

There isn't but many of the random tables are bundled into the Patreon-exclusive random generator I put together which you can find here: https://slyflourish.com/random_generators/sf-random-generator.html It doesn't have everything but its got a lot! Reviewing your favorite books once in a while to remember what they have can help a lot.

I haven't run into a Notion performance issue but many Lazy DMs and patrons of Sly Flourish use Obsidian and love it. Hop onto the discord server and chat with others about it. There's a wealth of info. I'd consider switching to Obsidian but it's a big process to switch and there's a lot that Notion just does (like being cloud based and multi-platform) that takes more work in Obsidian. Maybe someday!

Hi there! Unfortunately, I've not looked at LegendKeeper. I just haven't had the time to check out all of the different resources. The nice thing is that the eight steps are largely system agnostic so you can use what works best for you! After a quick glance, the part of LegendKeeper that I'd love to have is map annotations. I know Obsidian can do this too (Obsidian can do anything with the right plugins).

We can't count on WOTC to make the products we want. The good news is that we can at least get digital versions of the original Greyhawk products and use those how we see fit. WOTC made Greyhawk products up through 3rd edition I believe. We can also find campaign books published by other 5e publishers that capture some of the Greyhawk feel. Raging Swan's Gloamhold campaign setting is one such example. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/204658/Gloamhold-Campaign-Guide I wouldn't say "never" to WOTC publishing a Greyhawk setting but I wouldn't count on it either. Don't let WOTC determine your happiness with D&D!

I'm sorry, I don't have great advice to offer. I tend to run only for adults. Our Discord server, however, has many GMs who run for mixed-aged groups. I'd bring the question up there and see what you find.

I think we each have our way we like to reveal magic items. I actually think the magic item discovery part of it isn't that interesting unless its really intended to be. Many times I have characters trained in arcana who can figure out magic items so we don't have to waste time with a short rest. Othertimes an item can't be identified unless a separate quest is undertaken. Some items have some properties you can instantly know about, others take some work, and even others might require "unlocking" with a long quest. There are lots of ways to handle identifying magic items and we GMs can choose any or all of them, switching around as it best fits the story or situation.

We actually have a gladiatorial encounter in Fantastic Lairs! I think the big question is "so what?" What part of the story is moving forward because of this gladiatorial fight? How can the characters "hack" the arena to turn it to their advantage? That's something we baked into our gladiator lair in Fantastic Lairs. You could hack the arena, sneaking in the little tunnels underneath where they brought monsters around. So those are my two recommendations: Make sure the story progresses through the gladiatorial fights and find ways for the characters to one-up not only their opponents but the whole arena.

Hi Matthew! Hard question! First, I'd really focus it down on a small introductory product. Take a look at MT Black's Iskandar setting, the Gloamhold campaign setting by Raging Swan Press, or Arcane Library's Gloaming setting. All three show how much you can do with small black-and-white and low word count products. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/364156/Iskandar-City-Sourcebook-5E https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/204658/Gloamhold-Campaign-Guide https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/collections/cursed-scroll-zine/products/cursed-scroll-zine-vol-1-diablerie I think we all have big ideas for big campaign settings but the reality is they're hard sells for anyone else. We can't convince people to buy a 500 page campaign setting like Ptolus. Focus on the small parts. Focus on what makes your setting unique among settings. Look into your favorite setting books and see what really works and what doesn't. Make sure you're writing it for GMs. This is to help them run games. Does it? Are you giving GMs the tools they need to run adventures in your setting? You're serving them, not you. Great question. Hope that helps!

HI Ciaran! I actually just answered this in an earlier question this month. I'm copying and pasting the answer here: Its probably best not managed in math. I was just writing about this in a freelance assignment I've been working on. The difficulty of waves changes depending on how fast those waves come in. If there's room between waves and they're not overlapping heavily, it'll be easier. The more the waves overlap, the harder it goes. So there's no clean way to adjust the encounter benchmark to account for waves. You're best off keeping it in mind for each wave and then deciding how much overlap there is between waves. Those overlaps are also a dial you can turn. If things look too hard, stretch out the waves or have the next wave include fewer creatures. If they're having an easier time, add more monsters coming sooner. Hope that helps!

Hi, I have been playing with open dice rolls for a while. There are two of the most common lazy techniques (that you might already be using). 1. Talk to your players. Tell your players that this is going to be a horror campaign/arch is going to be horror. It really helps if they buy in. 2. Flavour. Your descriptions can make a lot of difference. I would recommend using Shadowdark for mystery and terror, this isn't something that D&D does well. There are three reasons to use the dials. 1. The encounter is too easy. In this case, you can introduce more enemies or just let the PCs win. An easy win can be fun (but not really horror). 2. The encounter is too hard. In this case, allow the PCs to retreat easily or send enemies off to complete other tasks. 3. The encounter is dragging. If it is clear the PCs have won then ask them to describe how they finish off the encounter. Otherwise, environmental conditions such as falling rocks, fire or poisonous fog, dealing damage to both sides can effectively decrease the monster's HP. In conclusion, the dials you have access to are the number of enemies, the damage dealt (this is one of the original dials), armour class (this is one of the original dials) and the conditions of the encounter.

So much! It takes a bit of work to get it right but once it's dug in, you can say it all day long.

They're going out through different carriers. Sometimes people are getting a tracking email – sometimes not. Sometimes people get a tracking email after they're already sent. It's a lot of orders going out lots of different ways. I wish I could be more help!

For me, I'd probably just stick to one of them. Because one is set on a shore and the other goes deep into a jungle, it might be hard to get players to switch from one location to another. You could probably mix in the lizardfolk / sahuagin stuff if the characters are closer to the shores as they make their way from Port Nyanzaru to Omu. I had some shore-side stuff. You could slide Saltmarsh into Chult by having it be an outpost of Port Nyanzaru further down the eastern or western shore. But for me, I think both adventures run fine on their own without having to mash them up.

I haven't looked at it. I'll have to check it out! From digging into the preview, it reminds me a lot of the Ironsworn tables and oracle system they use. I dig it!

Hi Jamie! So glad you're bringing new people into the hobby! Here's a video I shot on teaching new players D&D that might help: https://youtu.be/yaRpkhrvLAU The main thing is to just get them in the game and get rolling. You can walk through their character sheet as you play, showing them what the modifiers mean. I'd definitely go with pre-gen characters instead of going through the trouble of building characters. Save that for when they're hooked and want to do that themselves. Keep the adventure simple and straight forward. Dragons if Stormwreck Isle is a great starter adventure. If you can, use the buddy system. Have a veteran pair up with a player but make sure the veteran doesn't overwhelm them as well. Talk to them ahead of time on how to help the player. Anyway, those are some of my thoughts. Hope that helps!

I wouldn't to *too* hard on it but it's interesting to see how choices have effects later. They don't all have to be bad, of course. Maybe they're surprising. I wouldn't suck all the fun out of a campaign by showing them how they made poor choices. A gnoll warband roaming Avernus doesn't sound so bad. Gnolls are the least of Avernus's problems. Maybe by releasing them they made an ally of the gnolls among all the demons and devils at war. I always try to start with what makes sense from a realistic standpoint and then ask myself "is that fun?" "Is that cool?" If not, I go back and work the reality a little bit until it IS fun and IS cool.

The D&D Beyond homepage has now become their place to announce new things. Recently they've been putting out so many products that their own marketing overlaps with their own releases. Planescape just came out this week and already we're hearing about the Deck of Many Things coming out next week. But yeah, D&D Beyond is the place to get news direct for D&D but I follow EN World for my overall TTRPG news and they cover pretty much everything interesting going on with D&D. There's D&D news that WOTC doesn't really want to cover – so that's where I go. https://www.enworld.org They've been writing about TTRPG stuff for 24 years.

You might think of vampires as high level rogues. They sneak around, they turn into clouds of vapors, they charm people. They're sort of the ultimate rogues. Any creature that depends on sneaking around or manipulating people could be sort of a rogue-based monster. Guildmasters and master assassins make great high level villains. Artemis Enterri from the Drizzt novels was a pretty badass high level assassin.

Hi Ryan! I still highly recommend Owlbear Rodeo for a lightweight VTT that doesn't require anything but a browser on the player's end. We even had a player using a phone who got away with it well enough. Alternatively, you can find the "lasso" style copy and paste feature of your PC or Mac and make screenshots that only show what the players see and then share those images. That way you don't have to make weird shapes in Word or something like that. You can just share individual screenshots using Zoom. I think that's the best recommendations I have. Good luck!

That's unfortunate. You might ask your GM about rewarding experience points for other major story beats or accomplishments beyond just combat. To your specific questions: I'd expect one to three battles per four hour session of varying difficulties and complexities. I've gone whole sessions without combat if the situation warrants it but I have to keep a firm grasp of pacing or it'll feel too slow. 12 sessions seems high to only be 3rd level. I'd expect to gain a level every other session or every third session so maybe, level 4 or 5?

Here's some stuff I wrote to a friend recently on this very topic: I’m trying to put less of my emotional currency on whatever happens with the 2024 D&D books. I hope they’re good. They’re probably going to be fine. I doubt they’ll be a disaster and I doubt they’ll be knock-out-of-the-park fantastic. There will certainly be problems. We can just look at their recent books to see where their design space is at is a good example. Monsters are still weird. Subclasses are still weird. They won’t even admit Silvery Barbs sucks. I try to remember that 5e is a platform now. We have many variants we can use. If we want to try Level Up Advanced 5e instead of 2024 D&D or 2014 D&D or Tales of the Valiant or C7D20 or some other variant, we can. We should also be more free deciding that certain things are or are not allowed at a table or how to modify some things. A page of house rules, for example. I only really worry about players who feel like they have to use D&D Beyond. That’s the real monopoly of D&D in my book. I think we GMs are on our own. Pick what works, augment what we can augment, and run the game we want to run regardless of who publishes what.

Hi Adam! Here's what I had to say about chases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrEaoocazjQ&list=PLb39x-29puaoZke5BVk7fjyyyjWXcxCu1&index=20&t=2904s

Sometimes they synched up pretty closely and sometimes they diverged a lot. It really depended. I don't think any two adventures ran the *same* but yeah, I got to re-use a lot. Still, with all the troubles I sometimes had with adventures (I'm looking at you Rime of the Frostmaiden), I always loved running it for two different groups. How does it feel to you?

I've had a chance to look at it and while I dig the setting material far more than Spelljammer (in that it actually has setting material), I don't think I'm crazy about the adventure itself. **Planescape adventure spoilers ahead** It's built heavily around Planescape Torment with the same introduction and the same major NPCs. I haven't gotten so far as to see how it diverges but it takes a lot of agency away from players initially by making their characters not know anything about their past (or even have a past). Like Spelljammer, this means the backgrounds the books contain don't really fit since you don't really *have* a background. I just want a normal adventure.

Talking to them out of game and wiring their character around the goal of the campaign during a session zero is my best advice for a situation like this. Here's more on this: https://slyflourish.com/running_session_zeros.html https://slyflourish.com/tying_characters_to_a_campaigns_theme.html https://slyflourish.com/integrating_characters.html

Hi Joaquim! I actually talked about this in a recent Shadowdark game session prep along with my favorite tricks of rolling encounters that already passed by and rolling two encounters together so the character wander into two groups already dealing with one another. Dig into this video for details: https://youtu.be/J4hKIvkfvdU The video won't be up until noon Friday but check out the link then!

I run past the benchmark pretty often but usually only when the players are wandering into a big situation with a lot of monsters and those monsters aren't likely to act in an optimal situation. It's fine to go over the benchmark as long as you know you're doing so and are ready to manage it – even telling the players "there's no way you could take all these monsters on yourself all at once".

Ha, you just posted a video on this topic!

There's nothing wrong with notes and diaries and NPC dialog. Those are fine ways to learn stuff, but there are many more. Here are some links that may help: https://slyflourish.com/revealing_secrets.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qxYK2DgmW4 As an exercise, try to write down twenty ways characters might uncover secrets in your game. It's a great way to get your mind limber to reveal them when you're running the game itself. Hope that helps!

Hi Kathy! I wrote about my approach here: https://slyflourish.com/handling_missing_players.html In short, I just have characters fade in and out of the game. Everyone knows why. The story can handle it. Sometimes we have a funny jokey reason but we don't need a reason at all. In my games the on call players have characters in the same campaign and same group and their characters just fade away when they're not there.

I certainly think we can throw some low-stakes quests and adventures in our high level games. Seven Samurai can be done at any level. We can also have high stakes games that aren't world-ending sorts of things, just big powerful events that require high level characters. Kill the vampire lord sort of missions. Heists in the City of Brass. Dungeon delving into the crypts of Orcus's realm of Thanatos. They're still optional. They're not going to end the world if the characters don't do something about it. But they can still push powerful characters. Hope that helps!

I think we're going to do exactly that! i6 Ravenloft was originally written for 1st edition AD&D so I think Shadowdark will work just fine for it. I think we're going to use 7th level characters, which is a little high for Shadowdark (which has a cap of 10th level) but it should be fine. Kelsey has a vampire stat block that works well for Strahd too called Hedron: https://www.dropbox.com/s/egk5h446r27rrqr/5%20-%20Lord%20Hedron%20Antioch.pdf?dl=0 I think the main approach difference is going to be very clear with the players that this is a much more hard core game than 5e is – much more deadly – and I'll have a whole set of alternate pregens for them to grab should a character die.

I think its totally fine to help them see the situation. You can clarify to them that one path may or may not work based on what their characters know of the situation. You can also tell them that you aren't steering them one particular way but you'd be honest if an approach simply won't work. I always lean towards telling them too much than too little.

Hi Sam! I did miss this but ended up answering there. To save you a click, I'm answering here as well: Its probably best not managed in math. I was just writing about this in a freelance assignment I've been working on. The difficulty of waves changes depending on how fast those waves come in. If there's room between waves and they're not overlapping heavily, it'll be easier. The more the waves overlap, the harder it goes. So there's no clean way to adjust the encounter benchmark to account for waves. You're best off keeping it in mind for each wave and then deciding how much overlap there is between waves. Those overlaps are also a dial you can turn. If things look too hard, stretch out the waves or have the next wave include fewer creatures. If they're having an easier time, add more monsters coming sooner. Hope that helps!

Hi David! I think there are a couple of ways to handle it. One way is to try to connect with their nostalgia for the old days by writing down stuff on a paper character sheet. Some may not be into it but some may like the idea of doing things "the old way". You can also let them track their character however they want, with any tool they want from Roll20 to D&D Beyond to Shard or something else. Let them worry about their character sheets and you worry about running the game. I haven't found a great solution for this, obviously, or I wouldn't be as passionate about it when I dive into D&D Beyond and how it's monopolizing 5e.

Mrs. Sly Flourish and I are working on some merch! Stand by! I talked about the idea of how we figure out all the different 5e systems on the Talk Show a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/7bw-VTyCVsc?t=3293s In short, I think we have to pick a core system and then maybe bring in a small number of house rules from another system. The ToV luck system works well with everything, for example. There's also a lot we can do on the DM side by using other monster books or other magic items or rewarding other weird spells from other systems.

Almost every week on the Talk Show I do a spotlight. Flee Mortals was a great big one so it took more time. I don't typically spend that much time on a single product but you can see all my product spotlights by typing "product spotlight" into the topic database for the Talk Show: https://slyflourish.com/talk_show_database_897a3ca6dac5f425b98d1ac85cd6962d/

Is it just one pirate ship? That could be a problem. If it's a big pirate *fleet* you can run the battle against the fleet while the characters take on one ship themselves. Find a way to keep the spotlight focused on the characters and their actions while you describe the rest of the narrative based on the choices the characters made to recruit the town. When the players see how their choices make the world better, even when it's completely narrative, it still makes them happy to see it. You don't need a big ship-battle sub-system. Describing it in the background works just fine.

Yeah, on behalf of an ignorant nation, I apologize. One easy way to do it is just convert 5 feet to a meter. Sure, it's smaller, but it can still work. 25 feet is five meters. A square is one meter. It means all distances are condensed a little bit but the whole 5 foot square is already abstract so I think you can get away with it and not worry. Divide feet by 5 and you get the meters and everything in 5e is divisible by 5 so its pretty easy. There may be a reason this doesn't work but I can't think of it right now.

I do! I'm a big fan of spiral campaign development. You can find more about it here: https://slyflourish.com/spiral_campaign_building.html

What do the other players think? Have you talked to them about it? There are definite ways to streamline the game. The easiest is to remove subquests. If there's no reason to go to the Amber Temple, they won't go there. I'm a big fan of the three-quest-at-a-time model found in Dragon of Icespire Peak where there's always two or three quests the characters can choose from but because their unselected quests disappear, it stays narrow. That gives some choices but not so many that it's a complete sandbox. You could narrow it further by only having two potential paths and then the unselected path cuts off. Or you could really just have one big quest line with the choices being mainly about approach instead of choosing where to go and what to accomplish next. My Empire of the Ghouls game and most chapter-focused games are more like that. Take a look through some published adventures, especially episodic adventures, and see how those feel. Tyranny of Dragons, Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Light of Xaryxis – adventures like those.

Flashbacks have some narrative problems. They seem like a good idea, sort of like running dream sequences, except they don't actually get you anywhere. Since they're a flashback, they're not moving the actual story forward and that's what players typically want. I think *starting* with a flashback isn't so bad as long as the actions the characters take in the flashback matter. One other problem with flashbacks is that usually the result is pre-determined. If you're flashing back, you already know how it ends up. But sometimes you can use a flashback to build the future. Which characters and NPCs lived and died in the flashback might determine what the world is like in the future. That's trickier to run too. Giving info isn't usually enough to make it worth playing through a session just to know something that already happened.

I left it sort of open. Because the two worlds are colliding (the domains of dread and the feywild) sometimes an anchor would pierce through from the domains of dread into the feywild on their own. Sometimes a creature would bring it with them. Sometimes it was something the characters had with them. I didn't define it too tightly except to say that often an item was responsible for keeping open and connecting the two realms together. It would have to be destroyed or thrown back to close the rift. Sometimes the anchor would be a piece of the feywild that fell into the domain of dread and need to be recovered. I actually took some of my inspiration from the game Bioshock Infinite in which a portal between worlds clips off someone's finger and that piece of that finger ended up creating rifts between an infinite number of parallel universes. It was a wild idea.

I've never really run a western setting and I don't know what system would be best for it, so I can't answer that. Savage Worlds has Deadlands but that's definitely fantasy western. I think the 8 steps can work for just about any roleplaying setting depending on what system one chooses. Some systems, like Powered by the Apocalypse systems, run differently so you might change up the steps. I think you can still have fantastic locations and instead of "monsters" it's more like villains or adversaries – bandits and the like. I think we could pick up a lot of ideas from good westerns like the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and the other Man with No Name movies. Deadwood, of course. Unforgiven. Bone Tomahawk, and others. D&D is already basically a western. But I couldn't help myself but add fantasy elements.

Hi Matthew! I answered a similar question to this last year: https://youtu.be/b0otgh_zIz0?si=KNGtjnslOzLsszY4 I would try to find the parts of the campaign itself you love and focus on that. Stick with it. Enjoy it. The grass isn't greener. That other campaign your excited about would also be the one you're looking to leave for the next thing. Love the one you're with. What elements of the current campaign are *you* excited for? Double down on that. Find what you love in this one and focus on that.

This is a careful line to balance. I'd want to make sure everyone's cool with this in a session zero (lots of session zero talk in this batch of Patreon questions – see links in other comments). You can always break character and ask if everyone's ok with this. You want to avoid a "this is what my character would do" situation. You might have the conversation with the particular player letting them know that it's cool for them to have an arc but their arc needs to fit the larger game arc going on as well.

There are probably two ways to handle this. First is out-of-game and the second is in-game. Out of game you probably want to have a refresh just to talk about who the characters are and what sorts of characters are going to have the most fun in the campaign. Usually this is best done in a session zero *before* the players have built their characters so they know that their characters are the ones to take personal responsibility in Waterdeep for the jobs they undertake. Here's more on that: https://slyflourish.com/reinforce_cooperative_character_motivations.html https://slyflourish.com/one_page_campaign_guide.html https://slyflourish.com/running_session_zeros.html The second is in-game. Maybe the characters get *hired* by the groups they're seeking help from. They can get conscripted by the guards. The temple or magic university hires them to figure out the bigger plot. Turn those organizations the character or characters are falling back on as new patrons for the characters to go on these adventures. But sometimes we just have to say "As adventurers, it's up to you to figure this out. The local organizations in the city aren't going to do it for you".

I'm doing a hexcrawl in my Shadowdark game and I show them what they would know or learn about. So I use a hex map on Owlbear Rodeo and use a fog of war to hide what they haven't seen yet. When someone tells them about something, or a path to something, I'll reveal it with the fog. It's all about what the characters would know. Maybe they know about the terrain but not the features. If we can somehow find a terrain map *without* features, we can show that. If they learn about Bittermold Keep, I show them the hex with Bittermold Keep. If there's a road, I show them the path of the road since that's something their characters would know about. So that's my best current advice (and I'm far from a hexcrawl specialist). Show what the characters know or can learn about.

Hi my pal Gábor! I just so happen to have Eyes of the Lich Queen in my digital archive! To stay lazy, I'd do the following: First, ask yourself what challenge rating the various creatures are. You can use the CR in the adventure or decide yourself how tough you think these creatures are by using the table on page 6 of Forge of Foes. Write down those basic stats for their CR. Then, for each creature, choose a trait that defines them in combat. What single trait or ability can you give them that makes them feel unique? For bigger solo-style monsters you might do two or three but for "normal" monsters I'd stick to just one. The Blackscale lizardfolk don't have anything that jumps right out at me but maybe if you know more about what a blackscale lizard is like, you could add something. If they're attuned to black dragons, maybe they do an extra 1d6 acid damage on their bite attack. For Varmystix, I'd give him a spit fire attack, pulling out some of the damage in the Forge of Foes stat line for a ranged fire burst attack (DC based on his stat line in Forge of Foes). That's probably enough to make him work out well. Hope that does the trick!

As you say, foreshadowing is one way but also if their characters are clear tactical soldier types, they might realize the precariousness of the situation into which they're entering. They might realize going in that they could get caught and need a way out. I like to think of these as situations moreso than designing it to fit a certain overall feeling. What if they find a crafty way to escape without facing the bonkers enemies coming in after them? Shouldn't they be rewarded for that? Like predefining chases, predefining a situation in which the characters have an easy time getting in but a hard time getting out already presupposes the feeling when we want to embrace creativity from the players to find their own path out. Having things go bonkers at a certain point is fine. Defining how bonkers plays out probably overplans how the adventure is going to go.

I've heard about it and a friend showed it off to me. It looks cool. I haven't spent any real time with it, though. There's just so many options its hard to dive into any one of them for very long.

I always try to balance what makes sense in the fiction of the game with what is fun for the group – leaning towards the former first and bringing in the latter if it needs a tweak. I also keep in mind that sometimes the players just lose track of what's going on and need a reminder. Did the cleric *know* they were going to kill the hostages? Did that fit with their outlook of the character given discussions during a session zero? Is killing hostages acceptable? And if revivify would work in the situation, why not let it? How many hostages did they kill and how many stayed dead? Did the trauma of being killed and brought back still hurt the reputation of the characters? There's a lot of potential ways it could go. More on session zeros: https://slyflourish.com/running_session_zeros.html

Anything's good if it works for you and the group. I tend to aim more towards the fantastic. Instead of choking on a chicken bone, what if they're ovecome by a dark spirit trapped in an amulet they're showing off to a friend? What's the D&D equivalent of choking on a chicken bone?

Nothing leaps to mind but I sure seem to love having sentient skulls as sidekicks. I now get called out on it in every campaign I run – because I tend to have one in every campaign I run... I love me some vampires but those aren't obscure. I think catoblepas are really awesome but I tend not to run them that often.

I don't personally subscribe to the idea that any one class doesn't balance up to other classes. The melee versus spellcaster arguments, ranger versus other melee classes. I get that some classes don't hit the mark for some people but in my own games, I've had players play every class multiple times and still have a good time at the table. Certainly some class combinations are very effective – fighters with sharpshooter can out-damage a ranger with a bow – that sort of thing. Back when I spent all my time on Everquest and World of Warcraft I heard the same arguments – fighters aren't as good as death knights. Why does SOE hate the necromancer so much? It seemed like pure tribalism to me. It's also telling that these problems almost always focus on combat effectiveness which is inconsistent at best. What about how well they do in exploration or roleplaying? My best suggestion is to look at other 5e publishers and find the one with the features you like best for the class. Don't let WOTC determine your happiness with 5e. Don't count on WOTC to fix 5e with the 2024 rewrite. It's just going to be another take on the game with its own warts and imbalances.