• Vespair@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I mean who doesn’t have dark vision these days?

    5e was absolutely devastating to the torch-seller economy

  • Lianodel@ttrpg.network
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, that’s one of my biggest gripes: so many character abilities are just “turn this part of the game off.” Something like Goodberry completely obviates the need to worry about food, and darkvision leads to annoying assymetry, and incentivizes the GM to just gloss over it, or hand the one player who doesn’t get it from their race or class some magic goggles and be done with it.

    If you don’t want to play worrying about light sources or food, you can just do that. If you want to track those things, you can make it fun. But 5e’s approach is kind of neither. It’s there, but it sucks, so it doesn’t matter. Bleh.

  • Igloojoe@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Just be the asshole in the party that doesnt have it and starts ruining surprise attacks and stealth.