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I'm in the same boat as Foxwarrior with a little difference. I'm here because I liked the TOMEs and ended up finding a TTRPG forum to become addicted to.

Oh my god I just described a Fighter that has access to actual magic and some way to contribute to a party.

Supposedly, and I do mean supposedly, D&D 5e CR is supposed to work off of what a standard party of 4 is able to deal with at the level shown by the CR number. What that means is that a party of level 1's is supposed to have one CR 1 encounter per day and that uses up all of their resources or s...

It brings pseudo magic items in at level 2, getting easy access to two third level spells via the cap of water breathing and the sending stones, and access to magic weapons to bypass the DR of literally everything in the monster manual. These infusions can also be swapped out every time the artifice...

Where would be the best place to talk about the 5e Artificer? It's uh...fairly interesting in terms of how hard it eats the Ranger's lunch.

Okay, so uh...technically speaking archery style/sharpshooter is incredibly broken but not in the way that people think. Archery style gives +2 to-hit over literally all other styles in a game where to-hit bonuses are considered broken and not a thing that should be readily available, meaning that a...

Maybe Dogbert's using D&D 5e's skill system?

Rogues, Spellthieves, and the like are going to constantly want to move behind people, yes. They all have Tumble and they're going to be doing it constantly. If you let the Sudden Strike classes get Sudden Strike when hitting the rear area those classes are going to see a slightly larger buff to the...

Reading through it, it's interesting to say the least. Facing is and always will be a fiddly mechanic, but this isn't a bad take on it. It adds a lot of layers to the game that you wouldn't normally get because everything is normally treated as a 360 degree attack radius. Now choosing where to stand...

As I see it, PF2 is a functional but boring wargame about controlling individual minis on a board and doing little skirmisher tactics. The fucked RNG doesn't really matter because the monsters got fixed or the monsters in the newer modules are the not-fucked monsters. It's just that everything's bor...

Did you know that a not insubstantial portion of tabletop players do, in fact, like playing classes that are explicitly hot dogshit? It weirds me out when I see people homebrew really weak material, since I can't tell if they did it because they don't know how to play the game, or they want to eat ...

Speaking of terrible ideas, we have the Advanced Player's Guide playtest. Featuring four new classes that nobody really cares about, like the Investigator, the Oracle, the Swashbuckler, and the Witch. I have no idea how they're going to be different from their PF1 counterparts but apparently the Inv...

Miniatures Handbook was a weird one to be quite honest and the fact that I can't remember anything really good about the book other than a few busted-ass cleric spells and the swift action probably speaks volumes about its quality.

I realized that it's easier for me to understand this ridiculous martial/magical disparity if I think of RPGs from the standpoint of self-insert fantasy. There's a certain amount of talent you can imagine yourself having if you cared enough to train, but even with the unwarranted self-aggrandizemen...

Goddamn fucking Paizo retard motherfuckers can't even begin to understand what the fuck is wrong with their game, can they? IT'S NOT EVEN WEEABOO FIGHTAN MAGIC, FUCKING 5E D&D COULD FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT! I know this came out before 5e did, but holy fuck this should be really obvious. Attacking ...

I don't think the full attack more than once feat exists. That might be Weeaboo Fighan Magic and we don't want that. We might have to show someone attacking more than four to seven times in six seconds. And that just isn't realistic. Unless they have a bow in which case they're holding an automatic ...

So, just like 3.5 with stuff like the Candle of Invocation? Man, the Candle of Invocation was fucked from day 1 but that probably has to do with the 'didn't playtest past level 10' bit. 5e's magic items came after the player's handbook and the monster manual, from what I understand. There was no re...

I'm going to sort-of ignore the existence of the OP and highlight my own problem here: The problem with D&D 5e I'm seeing here is, fundamentally, what magic items do. The potion of flying is in the same rarity as the belt that gives you 25 strength, but the winged boots, a non-consumable item th...

Dress Spheres is the best thing to compare the Binder to, yeah. The concept is essentially the same. What you want Vestiges or Augments to do is simply what classes you think should be available as Dress Spheres. -Username17 But if they were really Dress Spheres, you'd be able to switch them in com...

Frank, Krusk, you both make excellent points. I had completely forgotten about the TOME sphere system and that's actually an excellent place to start. Augmentations, spheres and a sprinkle of defensive abilities...And as to why I'd not just make another fire mage it's because I like the weird abilit...

So the Binder class is almost wholly empty, being mostly a pointer to vestiges and pact augmentations. The vestiges and pact augmentations actually made are gormless and crappy. Conceptually the Binder is a character that selects a package of abilities each day that are a thematic set of at-will an...

So, it's no secret that I play D&D 3.5 with a group that wants to fix 3.5, but also skittish that any TOME-level suggestions get shot down. Really, it's frustrating, because we're all on the same page about a lot of subjects (Knights and Fighters not being 20 levels worth of class, full BAB real...

angelfromanotherpin wrote:if you wanted the GM – sorry, I mean Seneschal

Oh cool we're renaming the GM/DM right off the bat. That's not gonna stick. It never does.

Why do games do that, by the by?

Just piling on, I would also be interested

Really one of the main issues is cutting fighting-types on skills because they can fight and then trying to pretend like this isn't a game where the primary method of interaction is combat.