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Broken items can be repaired for 10% of its cost and 8 hours. How are broken magic items repaired ? Village blacksmith, or spells like mending, or ? My opinion would be that it would need some kind of magic or very highly skilled person fixing it... Yes, I am somewhat avoiding wading too deep into ...

indeed, the base 5e rules for damaging items are so terrible that I strongly suspect no one uses them, so the in game effect at tables is probably that items are never targeted and never destroyed. So by RAW these rules are incredibly generous (for the most part), but if the end consequence becomes ...

I've implemented a rework on how damaging items in 5e works, the rules are below. I've only recently implemented them and therefore do not have much live play feedback yet. Opinions welcomed. As a reminder the normal rules state: Magic items, besides potions, scrolls, have resistance to all damage, ...

[Making a completely new skill system that doesn't suck shit, and then inventing a knowledge system that doesn't suck shit is outside the scope of a the divination rework. You are welcome to do so on your own time. I've personally made up three different knowledge rules, and seen other people make ...

Ok, been looking through 5e and while there is a lot that just looks bad. In particular, they way attack spells either do or do not affect things other than creatures, seemingly depending on whether or not the writer remembered to put rules in for that. When it does affect things (eg "A flamma...

1) If people never cast the spell, that's their choice. But not everyone plays in games were they are given this information. In particular the 3.5 knowledge rules very much don't give it. 2) We definitely do want spells to replacing skills. That's definitely a thing we do actually want. You want p...

Divination certainly needs a holistic makeover. I noticed you didn't post any revisions of non-detection / mindblank? the first spell is for me underwhelming powerwise as well possibly undermining core features of the game -- I just give this information out with a free action successful skill check...

Appreciate the feedback deaddmwalking. I don’t think I was blithely ignoring myself, just to repeat the prior assumptions combats should be between 1-4 rounds, and usually 2 or 3 rounds. I’m ok with combat rounds sometimes only being 1 round, but i don’t really want combats to hit round 5 or more (s...

by analogy 5e is the fast food of rpgs, a terrible product millions of people seemingly willingly partake in above and beyond my local steakhouse which is absolutely divine and far better than anything else in the multiverse. 5e's returned emphasis on the 6 core stats, a basic resolution tree of d20...

Solving damage output under system assumptions Action economy 3 AP and 1 RP HP 10 Combat should be 2 or 3 rounds, sometimes 1 or 4. rules lite idea: if combat hits round 5, it forces a settled negotiation, examples might be truce, conditional surrender, flee, unconditional surrender, ally, re-engage...

5e was largely viewed as vaporware here, and in many ways it is (or was), but it's also a great cognitive load reduction in comparison to 3.x, and groups with the context of 3e can port over rules as needed without too much struggle. Since the release, more rules have been added, and generally thats...

Yes, 20d6 in person is a hassle, that's why i was suggesting I would cap it at 10/11d and add static +1 bonuses instead. Is 10d, 11d also prohibitive in person? I could just cap it at 5d/6d and add static bonuses there, but not sure if there's enough variance (var 1.12, 1.22 respectively). One upsid...

I was able to run a small playtest for my usual group a few months ago and it had a number of useful takeaways. Character creations and a rules summary took about 90 minutes and the play session was 5 hours. The setup was they were all from the same remote farming village and were tasked with findin...

Is there a genre for spellbound? I'd hate to describe a drug addled psychic space mechanic in a dnd clone. Spellbound is a generic fantasy RPG that is very much a work in progress, any of the threads labeled [Spellbound] in IMHO will go into various mechanical details. Okay, why not, I'll describe ...

thanks for answering, i have a bit of a different impression now than when i read the first post. Does the system have levels? If say you go through session 0 and session 1, and player A has their golfbag wizard, and player B has their golfbag fighter, and C is the shifter, What does B do if they de...

Are you still using classes? your talk about golf bag wizards and fighters then also mention shapeshifters, and suggests they all have their own inventory which caters to their shtick. Do these items all cost the same resource, or is more than one resource type used to purchase items? Do items manif...

if you begin with the assumption that nPL has a pathological need to never admit being wrong, it becomes much easier, at least for me, to still have beneficial exchanges.

Normally I've been creating topics in the busier forum (IMHO), generally I've justified this because many of the mechanics in spellbound are works in progress which have undergone vast changes and are hopefully informative or interesting in a general sense. However, spellbound is taking shape and is...

We could rewrite immunity and ignore immunity by stating, 'fire damage is typically fire damage tier 1' and then we would hand out tier 1 fire immunity, and eventually we would give access to tier 2 fire damage, and tier 2 fire immunity, then tier 3 fire damage and so on. Is that a better system (th...

This issue is also exemplified by antimagic powers and leads to silly things like pathfinder's aroden's spellbane.

So what's a better antimagic gimmick for a game that practically requires using magic after the first couple of levels?

If you are not already on fire, whenever you take fire damage (‘damage taken’), you may gain the burning or melting condition. All else aside. This change now makes Burn the best defense against Melt. I think you are misreading it, as its presented in the order of: If neither A nor B, X If A, Y If ...

Well, I don't know what more can be done here. If you reject 80 wound boxes as terrible, but not 10 wound boxes each with 8 subdivisions , you have left the land of reason. THIS . 10 Wound boxes with 8 sub-units is 80 boxes . But if you VISUALLY like 10 boxes with 8 subdivisions, you can make '1/8'...

Another revision, to clarify how stacking fire damage is intended and to (hopefully) make clear that someone cannot be both burning and melting at once. I greatly appreciate everyone's feedback so far, thank you. Ignite If you are not already on fire, whenever you take fire damage (‘damage taken’), ...

once damage hits 1/16 it is handwaived, so the lowest denominator is 1/8th, and with a little teaching and practice, converting 1/2, 1/4 to a 1/8 denominator should be within reach of most people. Visually this can be done with a box that is evenly divided into 8 smaller pieces, something like this:...

So, I do ultimately agree, The fire writeup is overly complex and it doesn't fully do what I want it to do. I have another revision below. Now, if you are burning you take a flat 1 point of 'damage taken', melt does 1+melt of damage taken. Fire Ignite Burn Melt Every point of fire ‘damage incoming’ ...