>>96502554
>>96502465
You know, I just realized it's also possible people like this have had their DM mollycoddle them their entire lives. If your DM lets you genuinely live a life where you cast one spell and walk away, they're not presenting appropriate challenges to your team.

I mean it's fine and cool on the occasions the stars align. Where you can trick everything in to clumping up AND everything fails it's DC. I do love my mass control spells myself. They have a cool factor simply barfing fireball on things doesn't have.

Granted, you go and explode, explosion chads. I don't get the appeal myself even though I appreciate the aggressively competent results.

>>96477125
Maybe DnD should loosen it's asshole about smaller weapons being good instead.

Let's all just ignore the truth that an interesting player is what causes an interest character. No amount of lore will change someone who refuses to act alive in their role play.

That aside, people will shit blood no matter what you do. Some people exist just to make up reasons to be mad on the spot. They are unpleasable. They exist only to tear others down and exalt themselves. So do what you want so long as it is right by Christ. If you want to play a dog man who wags his tail and chases sticks, do it. If you want to play a bull man who has an unexpectedly deep and unique culture he is from, do that. Someone being an evil cretin about it is literally their problem. Not yours.

>>96152996
> Player plays a well-designed game for the first time in their life and is absolutely shattered by it.
Sounds about right.

Don't know about Burning Wheel's design, but my ideal would be characters allowed to exceed at multiple things at once. The objection to it only makes sense in this forced situation where knowing literally any one thing precludes knowing anything else through all perpetuity. Because, yes, someone being extranormal breaks design, but the limits on competency are forced in the first place. God forbid I know how to read a book AND defend myself. Clearly, I just want to play a Mary Sue.

>>96053517
It's just been some time since I used DND itself. Because it's bad. Also, as another anon noted, the rules themselves don't actually explain how spellcasting works in a real sense anyway. That lore is in random locations. Which is a great shame upon DND for doing so. Knowing how your abilities function in a lore sense is pretty important for actual RPing.

>>95950815
Because you could make golems instead, but you insist on walking corpses, which inherently spread disease, because you just REALLY NEED the necromancer aesthetic.