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Honestly I think I'm done with DND. The whole session was nominally a fight, but almost all of it was the bad guys running away and us dashing to keep up. And then setting off like 5 lightning bolt traps in a row with no way to detect them really in a narrow hallway. (Apparently I should have tried dispel magic on the glyph, but how was I supposed to know it was a non-standard glyph of warding that keeps firing??)
And our wizard.. mixed bag. He'd split off from the party and, to his credit, figured out an alternate route that put him ahead of the baddies. But he wasn't able to stop them. Couple rounds of action and they got past him and escaped.
Though to the wizard's credit the main baddie happened to have legendary resistance so the wizard's portent + polymorph did nothing. Which sucks. Legendary resistance sucks.
So it wasn't great. Two hours of "I dash" and the baddies got away.
But even aside from that I've reached a point where like every piece of DND has something that annoys me. Time to find a new system. One that's not a close relative. If I never see another d20 or traditional six stats in a game, I might be okay with that.
Wow, your DM should learn some design best practices. I have started to look for a new system a while ago, my main problem has been that my party is not as deep as me in RPGs. Im a fate guy and them are dnd because its their first game
Are you me? Fate is my big game crush and it's hard to get people to play it. And then hard to break them out of the DND mindset.
At least I finally got some people to play Mage. Been wanting to do that for years.
Perhaps, well, i didn't think you will find it this easy...
Is hard to invite people to fate beside some oneshot.
Mage could fry some of my friends mind, is too much hahaha but some of them are willing to try Lvl up advanced 5e. I have some really good hopes on that game.