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- Thu May 08, 2014 8:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why in D&D world doesnt anyone want to become an adventurer?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8210
- Thu May 08, 2014 8:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why in D&D world doesnt anyone want to become an adventurer?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8210
Adventurers have access to healing magic, while peasants do not. I mean as an adventurer you can heal and resurrect people. It really seems logical that every family should invest in a kid or two becoming high level adventurers. And why is that necessarily true? There are plenty of settings where m...
- Thu May 08, 2014 7:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why in D&D world doesnt anyone want to become an adventurer?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8210
- Thu May 08, 2014 7:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why in D&D world doesnt anyone want to become an adventurer?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8210
Why in D&D world doesnt anyone want to become an adventurer?
Help me find a good reason for it. Adventurers gain levels and power. They can gain enough so they can kill or buy any non adventurer and it does not seem that adventurers have a higher career mortality than anybody else due to healing and what not divine power. In fact it is peasants that seem to h...
- Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:40 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Mearls just tried his best, it says it here:
- Replies: 132
- Views: 19138
If you're going to say that conceptually inverting all the attack numbers so that AC counts up instead of down is a minor change, you have nothing meaningful to add to the discussion. Changing the mechanics so that 3 is better than 1 instead of vice versa is literally as fundamental change as it is...
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 4e is to Descent what Rolemaster is to classic D&D
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1992
Apples are to cars as oranges are to heaters. Agree/disagree Discuss. Perhaps you could offer us some sort of context or explanation to explain what you're getting at, or is this going to be a guessing game? Lol You are right to ask. I came to this conclusion in the context of this thread over at r...
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:07 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 4e is to Descent what Rolemaster is to classic D&D
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1992
4e is to Descent what Rolemaster is to classic D&D
4e is to Descent what Rolemaster is to classic D&D.
Agree/Disagree
Discuss.
Agree/Disagree
Discuss.
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 4:20 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What levels would be PF/3.xe's paragon and epic tiers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1796
What levels would be PF/3.xe's paragon and epic tiers
I guess that would depend on wizard spells, cleric powers?
- Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The End of 4e D&D.
- Replies: 1061
- Views: 177831
A player should not be able to choose a magic item among other magic items without a sacrifice of some resource. If he is, his focus diverts to making the right mundane choice rather than the importance of each magic item. If magic items need to be impressive and important they should not be dispose...
- Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D PC ROLES: FROM PAST TO PRESENT TO FUTURE
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4522
- Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D PC ROLES: FROM PAST TO PRESENT TO FUTURE
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4522
Roles exist as a way to force multiplayer. Except that it's a tabletop game, so it's kinda assumed you'll willingly play multiplayer. Interesting observation. Roles indicate to others a different way of doing things that they can't follow. So if the game assumes roles it is like individuals having ...
- Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D PC ROLES: FROM PAST TO PRESENT TO FUTURE
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4522
- Thu Sep 09, 2010 11:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D PC ROLES: FROM PAST TO PRESENT TO FUTURE
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4522
- Thu Sep 09, 2010 10:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D PC ROLES: FROM PAST TO PRESENT TO FUTURE
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4522
D&D PC ROLES: FROM PAST TO PRESENT TO FUTURE
old school:
ever ready (fighter)
trick monkey (thief)
nuker (mage)
buffer/debuffer (priest)
3.xe
What do you think?
4e
striker
controller
leader
defender
5e
Insert your favorite idea
Discuss.
PS: it is desired to correct/challenge whatever premise you want in the OP
ever ready (fighter)
trick monkey (thief)
nuker (mage)
buffer/debuffer (priest)
3.xe
What do you think?
4e
striker
controller
leader
defender
5e
Insert your favorite idea
Discuss.
PS: it is desired to correct/challenge whatever premise you want in the OP
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:08 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Is WotC's layoff policy creating a D&D death spiral?
- Replies: 173
- Views: 26842
Nothing whatever like the 4e Leader and Striker, because those are shitty role concepts. But the different spellcasters would be good at different things. The Necromancer an the Conjurer would get monster spam and the Warmage would not. -Username17 Ok, I think this is the most important thing to so...
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Is WotC's layoff policy creating a D&D death spiral?
- Replies: 173
- Views: 26842
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:36 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Is WotC's layoff policy creating a D&D death spiral?
- Replies: 173
- Views: 26842
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 3:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The End of 4e D&D.
- Replies: 1061
- Views: 177831
Yeah. That dude who is tougher than stone, can run so fast that human mooks cannot see him, is loaded on artifacts and explicitly stated to be magically enhanced . He is a Christmas tree and has some curses and protections cast on him, but his own abilities are simply badass normal. The fluff is im...
- Sat Aug 07, 2010 9:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Really Abstract Locations
- Replies: 108
- Views: 25756
The easiest way to track this is still by a 2d map of regions where you put tokens in the various regions they find themselves. Yeah, but that map can seriously be: Region----occupants 1 ----Goblin 1, Fighter, Druid 2 ----Goblins 2-4. Wizard 3 ----Thief, Hobgoblin You'll have to fix that every time...
- Sat Aug 07, 2010 9:13 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Really Abstract Locations
- Replies: 108
- Views: 25756
- Sat Jun 19, 2010 1:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Core Principle: Your Alignment System is Dumb
- Replies: 173
- Views: 25476
Hmm, I like cosmologies that involve cycles somehow. That is, things or matters naturally tending to be some pattern of motion and never trully stabilize or freeze on some linear principles. Cycles that reflect natural order rather than morals. What fantasy cosmologies are you aware of that build on...
- Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:51 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Core Principle: Your Alignment System is Dumb
- Replies: 173
- Views: 25476
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Core Principle: Your Fantasy Economy is Bullshit
- Replies: 452
- Views: 96645
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Game balance method: having to have different engine types
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1708
Basically versatility characters suffer from action restrictions. In other words, you have more actions you can do, but you don't gain any additional combat actions to actually use that versatility. So even if you can cast cure moderate wounds and stinking cloud, you can't do them both at the same ...
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Game balance method: having to have different engine types
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1708
I see versatility like this. Specialized classes: you can do one powerfull action every round. only one action means if your enemy manages to hold his ground he can figure out how to take care of you. Versatile classes: you can do more than one action each round but their total power output is lower...