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This entire thread is squirrelloid's personal Did Not Do The Research. Hey Ancient. No need to threadcrap. If you don't like it, leave it be. Squirrelloid: If you could get some rules to go with lords and peasants crafting useful materials to deal with annoying stuff it'd be a godsend. Right now we...

Mearls is a worse designer. 4th edition lasted merely a few short years before being updated to Essentials which was then cancelled. Compare this to the life span of OD&D and 1st edition.

Gygax hates players more. Gygax restricted options and fun within the system a lot more than Mearls did.

DM Prep is important. The better the DM and the better the system, the less prep is required for a good game.

You aren't starting from a balanced game foundation to begin with. Banning this or banning that has only a marginal effect on gameplay. The overridin imbalance asserts itself every time. I'll be honest with you that as a player it's annoying to read through or ensure one DM's arbitrary ban list, so ...

I'm amazed at how horrible the D&D division did during the 3E and 4E Era electronically. They absolutely needed a 4E game. Part of the problem was that D&D Online was loosely based on 3E and wasn't going to change and that their digital initiatives lost most of their original promises and ju...

This topic is a legitimate and a good one. And one that affects many games. And, something a well designed and robust game and design team will address. Let me start with my own background and experience on the issue. No matter the game or the genre there will be casual players and harcore players. ...

It becomes more and more apparent that Frank was right and the 5E is Vaporware

You have to look at it from a bigger scale. If you have multiple DMs and multiple players it's very hard to arbitrarily say everyone must have equal xp. Not only that but you have to somehow keep track of who had the highest xp from the last game and then make sure everyone in future games starts at...

OD&D to 3E has always considered mixed parties and for good reason: There has to be a benefit for having more xp than other characters, but you don't want to force other people to not play. What would that good reason be? Why should some party members have more xp than the others? Why should yo...

OD&D to 3E has always considered mixed parties and for good reason: There has to be a benefit for having more xp than other characters, but you don't want to force other people to not play. A well designed game is more tolerant of mixed level parties not falling apart to the opposition or overwh...

I'd be ok with auto success on a 100 and autofailure on a 1. 1% auto is more palpatable to me than 5% auto

If you don't have anything contributive to post, then please don't post, save me from wading through it. @Lord Mistborn. You are essentially correct, 4E D&D upped the competence of 1st level to the extent that they'd really be higher level adventurers compared to other editions 1st level charact...

Having recently played a campaign spanning level 1 to level 22. Rocket Launcher tag does grate on the feelings of the players and DMs in such a system. Initiative becomes the most important thing and a game becomes a series of interrupts and counter interrupts and so forth. Generally speaking people...

See my signature for my campaign website. It's a good simple free wiki. Seriously, just use a wiki, they make your life and the lives of others easier. You can always add HTML code to mess with stuff later if you really needed.

This is also better than Obsidian portal. Much more customizeable

I agree with Praetor. If you want to have a good rubric for a multiclassing system, the power system needs to be the same regardless of what that power system happens to be.

If we look at modern games such as Starcraft II , or Street Fighter we'll notice that a great deal of attention has been paid to balance. The developers show signs of actually understanding the intricacies of the games that they make. Contrarily, balance this against D&D. The game itself is brok...

Rules Light games are good for new players or casual players. Dungeon, Dragonstrike, and the various Dungeons and Dragon boardgames that have been published over the years count as rules light and fit into this category. And that's the issue with rules light. If you are only going to be playing a ga...

Just make your own free wiki and fill it in the way you want to.

See my sig below for an example of one. There are several.

There is no such restriction. In fact flavorwise, the Lancea Sanctum is justified in being downright immoral, greedy, and cruel because by being so while being a vampire serves as an abject lesson to humanity of the terror of God's wrath.

So yeah, the only thing stopping it is the Storyteller.

If you're a Fighter/ Magic-User / Cleric with 18 Con, you can come out one point ahead in HP. For example: Max fighter is 14 (+4 Con), Max Cleric is 10 (+2 Con) and max magic-user is 6 (+2) con, dividing by 3 leaves you with 5 HP from Fighter, 3 HP from Cleric and 2 HP from Magic-User. That is 10 HP...

Well let's take a look at the HP diffrences with three scenarios. 1 Scenario no bonus hp, partial bonus hp and full bonus hp. This also depends on how the DM does HP, if he decides round up or round down. If the DM chooses round up we get the following tables: Fighter HP Fighter Die Roll HPs Granted...

2. Single classed folks will level quicker. However, multiclass folks will quickly catch up despite split xp. I'm not sure what you mean by "catch up". If you mean that a level 7 and a level 9 PC are closer in terms of power than a level 2 and a level 4 PC, that's true. But they're always...

Keep in mind a couple of things. 1. In a one shot game, it won't matter. No one is going to level or level meaningfully to matter. In this case it's strictly better to be multiclassed 2. Single classed folks will level quicker. However, multiclass folks will quickly catch up despite split xp. As a c...

I'm surprised at some of the bad and or incomplete advice offered in this forum. Take a look at my list I made in Frank's style for 1st edition. Spells that Kill People . In short, spells in 1st edition are very powerful. There are several which outright incapacitate an enemy with no save or are a s...

Just as a note to the OP. For powerful stuff, you need to take a page from Frank and concentrate on powers that just kill people. Below is a power that just kills people: Transubstantiation from Vampire the Requiem (Level-Five Theban Sorcery Ritual) The character transforms one substance or object i...