Hate to share from the site we definitely don’t think about anymore, but I think this is too interesting to miss. If true, it’s a big insight into the design of the game. All credit to that OP of course.

Summary is that WotC’s balancing decisions seem to make sense if they balance the classes like they balance monsters, using max damage output over a three-round fight. Basically they overvalue that, especially for certain nova classes (the OP suggests those classes are Fighter/Wizard/Sorcerer) and undervalue utility.

TLDR. WoTC seems to value Single Target Guaranteed DPR in a Nova over 3 rounds, and balances the game around that not too dissimilar to how they calculate the power of CR. And that seems to reflect every design decision and choice they have made when viewed this way, and what they gauge class power around. The core resource management of the game is about novaing now or later, and how can classes recover their novas.

Based on the way they’ve reigned in nova damage with 1D&D but have left utility spells basically untouched, I think the theory has merit.

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      For real. It’s a nsfw post, too. So I can’t see it without having the app, which obviously there’s a lot of people that don’t wanna do that.

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        Sorry, totally forgot about the NSFW thing. I suppose I could just copy-paste the whole post onto here, but I didn’t want to look like I was just stealing the Reddit OP’s post either. I know there’s been discussion about the ethics of just grabbing posts from Reddit.

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          The reddit op isn’t gonna come over to lemmy and yell at you :) just copy it and leave a link. This is no different than posting a screenshot of a tweet or similar.

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          No worries. I see your concern. In a lot of communities, it’s normal to summarize what you’re linking to, and emphasize what specifically you think is interesting for discussion. That way your not stealing content and you’re jump starting the conversation you want to happen. I wish I could give an example here, but I don’t have reddit downloaded so I have no idea what the link is about lol

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      I see your point, my thinking was that it’s not my post, I should direct people to the original rather than look like I’m taking credit for it. I’ll edit the title so it’s less clickbaity.