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GanglyKhan posted...

I'll never understand WotC. They removed line of sight rules for physical projectiles, so now I can shoot my bow from behind a 4-man allied stack of PCs, but I still have to account for magic AoEs?

The main problem with those 5e complaints is that it's trying to straddle the line between being a grid-based miniatures game (the way 4e was) while simultaneously being a "theater of the mind" style game (the way White Wolf popularized in the 90s and the way most people actually play D&D these days).

A lot of D&Ds flaws have always been rooted in the fact that it was a miniatures wargame at heart, and on some level still wants to be that - but tons of players just want to play it purely in their imagination without maps or grids or figures or a DM having to whip out a plastic cone protractor to see what you hit and what you don't with your spell. So there's always a bit of conflict between the two, and DMs always sort of have to fudge things to make it work.