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Wait, how is this going to interact with the tiny and rather static skill proficiencies? Are challenges going to scale up and your static bonuses stay static?

Can we go back to dry/wet and crunchy/sticky?

And no new modules either. Man the 5e team must hate money or something.

White Wolf 3.0 hired Zak S.? Are you fucking kidding me? I thought saying 'FAILSNAILS is a usable system' killed your career completely in the RPG industry.

Minor criticism of the source: White Wolf games don't have rules. Stop lying and pretending like they do.

Oh god are we doing Boat Feats 3: Return of the boat? Now with boat archetypes? Why are boats such a big fucking deal? Why does it seem to be that boat is an acceptable specialization in any RPG without Water World levels of water? And here we go with this fucking archetype and prestige class shit. ...

Maybe it'd be more than three rounds if there was some way for non-spellcasters to have defenses. Or maybe the devs just aren't thinking of the implications of what they're making.

Okay, so I'm gonna need you to break this one down Whiysper. Because that sounds like some broken cheese and I need to know how you're doing it.

So, reading the paladin's tenants, I am keenly aware of one too many DMs that would basically put the paladin player in a state of perpetual falling. This is just...bad writing. Sounds way too abusable for my tastes. I'll bet you that they're going to make a Chaotic Good paladin variant that has non...

Everyone I've encountered online sings the praises of 5e, but at the same time they're also the kind of people I would never trust to run 5e. The system requires too much trust for quick pick-me-up games but at the same time is so easy to set up (outside of, say, breaking out all the copious amount ...

So, I use my third level spell slot to cast Animate Thread and vent a little. Let's talk about feats. The creators of D&D 5e keep releasing them, but never actually expanding how players get feats. This was a problem in 3.5 and it's a problem in 5e, and I'd argue it's a worse problem in 5e. Of c...

I'm pretty sure it's because of people falling for the stormwind fallacy so hard they forget what it's like to play an RPG where being competent is the norm.

2) He was better than anyone in the party at doing lots of hp damage and tanking, and that's compared with a warlock who specialized in shooting people, and a paladin. https://i.warosu.org/data/tg/img/0501/55/1478585167097.png Yeah I'll be taking that now. Thank you. I have some debates to go settle.

I'm glad that the first set of previews for Pathfinder 2e show that they fundamentally don't understand good design, or people, or what makes this kind of game fun. On the plus side, doubling down on the mistakes of previous editions will be a great educational lesson for the public. Okay, color me...

Okay, so I've been busy the last few days, but I love the outpouring of support from all of you. It's great, really. I'm not going to quote all of you in this response, but I hope it will suffice. Something I forgot to establish: I've been lurking here for two years until recently, and I honestly lo...

Okay so apparently this site doesn't have post-based HTML shenanigans on lockdown. I'll have to keep that in mind. Also preview mode kept spitting out the end quote tag at the bottom of my post.

Okay, so I forgot a disclaimer when I was talking about the homebrew shit. When you use more homebrew documents made by fans than actual books made by the developers, you are either playing the Mind's Eye Society Vampire the Masquerade(Which is pretty fucking rad all things considered) or you're pla...

What are you doing and what do you want Trying to make a semi-caster setting-specific fighter that uses magic items as the power source for some of his shit. This isn't a complete overhaul, this isn't 'I want to fix fighters once and for all', this is simply an attempt at a group-based band-aid my ...

Like there haven't been a million of these on this site already and I haven't read all of them while lurking in preparation to do things here. Shit I couldn't fit in the title aside, I'm in a hard place. I'm making a compilation of 3.5 D&D changes in a document for my group to use as my DM doesn...

So, I've actually been...I'm gonna call it installing mods. Because I hate to say it, 5e doesn't have the meat to do anything else. You just take a bunch of high-quality rules that the 5uckers put together and you voltron it all together to make something that functions. It's not quite like 3e, but ...

They're really trying to obfuscate their numbers, aren't they? Man, it's almost like low employee count looks bad or something. Something else I'm interested in is this rise of 'Roll d20 and the GM says whether you win or lose' gaming. When did this suddenly come into play? I know some 3.5 rules don...

Hey, checking for posterity's sake, do we have a current rough estimate of how many people are working for WOTC's D&D division? Minus, of course, 5e fans desperately trying to fix the game with rather good-looking homebrew documents.

I have, I rather like it a lot. I've been using it for my home games for a little less than a year now. Previously I was simply going 'Eh 20 feats with one weird bullshit feat per session ought to do'. I haven't gotten my group's big GM to read it yet, however.

Oh thank god, I thought the DCs were some unholy 'Oh yes you need to roll a DC 25 balance check to stand upright on a boat in calm waters and you have a -10 penalty if you have 0 ranks in profession: sailor' nonsense. Back to banging my head against a wall and hoping that combining feats that do lit...

I'm using the D&D 3.5 Index Sheets made by Chet Erez, and some of these boat feats are labelled 'DR' and have a number next to them or have that 'DR' crossed out and replaced with 'Storm', so I'm guessing some of these are pulled from Dragon Magazine. The point still stands, however.

Alt title: feat boat So, I, like the fool I am, decided that I should help my group out and bundle together D&D 3.5 feats into nice packages that do good things for characters, mainly because we have to now play in the last setting where we blew up the material plain's magic and basically fucked...