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It's literally D&D 5e, styled as a MOBA. Except without deep underlying systems, vast differences between characters and their abilities, and instead being dependent on luck and DM bullshit more than skill. So it's exactly D&D 5e? Hah! Nice one. The joke was that MOBAs usually involve more ...

The major problem with finding local players for me is that I'm living in a backwater place with about 100k people in town (which is a large number but doesn't work out that well), of which very few are even aware of tabletop RPGs (I used to be one of the few kids in school who knew what D&D eve...

So it's basically a third-party product? I'm simultaneously relieved and disappointed.

https://dndsports.tv It's literally D&D 5e, styled as a MOBA. Except without deep underlying systems, vast differences between characters and their abilities, and instead being dependent on luck and DM bullshit more than skill. Why? Seriously, why? Is 5e flopping that damn hard? Is Hasbro just t...

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Skills: - The Perform skill is an atrocity in and off itself. It's a fluff skill, only mechaniczed for a single class, forcing players to dump precious skill points into a pure fluff skill, if they want to play any character with even a semblance to, for example, asian heroes, playing a bamboo flut...

Eeerr, no. That was only one of my examples for skills. To reiterate: Skills are wildly unbalanced between themselves. Something like Use Magic Device is super powerful while Craft (basketweaving) is basically useless. Spot taking a -2 penalty per 10 feet meaning at 100 feet things start being impo...

Oh is that why we've been arguing about the rules of two spells for several pages, now? For a very specific situation, created by a single spell. The core rules, which is to say, things that aren't classes, feats or spells, are great. Skills, the BAB idea, the saving throws, etc. Still the best amo...

The reality is that 3rd edition rules were great. Oh is that why we've been arguing about the rules of two spells for several pages, now? For a very specific situation, created by a single spell. The core rules, which is to say, things that aren't classes, feats or spells, are great. Skills, the BA...

That's what makes designing good rules hard. I know of no D&D Edition that had rules I was happy with. And I am someone who actually liked playing 4th Edition, even still do, (I am into boardgames and 4e just tickles my fancy there). Even 3.5 was a clusterfuck of rules. I highly doubt anyone ac...

Well the issue here is that Shadowrun has been badly in need of a rethink of how much cyberware costs since first edition . The fact that Muscle Replacement needs to be recosted has been generally understood for nearly thirty years. The history there is that in first edition the concept was that an...

But there are no blanket nerfs available. Magic is absurdly powerful because it attacks the game from wildly different directions. Most dungeon crawl missions are a snap when you can use Control Manipulations to just have the guards turn off the alarm, open the doors, and hand you the fucking loot ...

Are there any good blanket nerfs to spellcasters in SR5? Multicast seems too strong, and some spells cast at Force 6 can obtain results better than anything other characters can do right at chargen. Even a simple multi-cast Manabolt can do 5x3 damage per turn with a total of 6 Stun Drain, and that's...

Hunger dice are functional unless your GM is actively trying to screw you over. Messy successes should be minor complications, not game-destroying, character ruining gotchas. And if they are, then the problem is with your GM. It's a functional replacement for the critical failure rules, since it do...

So now that this is actually out, has anyone looked over the mechanics yet? Trying to decide if I want to take a peek at the PDF or not. Mechanically, it's the best edition of Vampire. This isn't really saying much, but there's not much to say. They recognized some of the game's biggest problems an...

That's it. The rest is playtest material in Mearls' lunch break articles, which are banned in Adventurer's League because you have crazy shit like switching saves to be charisma based and trading spell slots to power up your spells, and no one will ever let you do that shit. It's nuts and really en...

Is this really much worse off than the 3e Rogue ? At 7th level, that hearty fellow has sneak attack +4d6, trapfinding, evasion, trap sense +2, and uncanny dodge. If your MC isn't liberal with traps, what you've got is sneak attack and 2 bonus feats. That's very much in "whoop de fucking doo&qu...

1) There is no actual progression. Fighters are the same at level 1 and level 20, the only major difference is that level 20 is 20 times beefier and hits 4 times per turn instead of 1. There's nothing actually NEW they learned to do during those 20 levels. There are also incredibly low numbers that ...

Adding to "Trump is actually just as bad the democrats and definitely not worse" we now have "Also I hate immigrants and watch Fox News!" Now, while it is certainly true that "wanting to remove all borders and border guards" is literally ZERO QUESTION infinity billion ...

"All I'm saying is that Trump is a politician who is no worse than any other, is basically just the same as all democrats, all democrats are exactly as bad as Trump, and that slavery is apolitical, how could you possible think I'm a Trump apologist?" Gee, I wonder. :roll: He's an incompet...

Fucking what? Slavery isn't political? Like, fucking seriously? Like, study fucking any political history at all? It's the fucking defining feature of politics for the early modern world, as to if people should be slaves or not, and endless fucking political battles including real wars between poli...

I guess we have a different understanding of how everything could come to be political. If anything expressing an opinion that can offend someone or cause them to disagree is political, then sure. But it's too broad of a definition. The best takeaway from Lit classes is that not everything needs to ...

Literally nothing you said rebuts, and in fact, entirely demonstrates, exactly what DSM is saying. Believing media can be non political is just evidence that you don't understand the politics of the media, because you believe those politics are not "politics" because you agree with them. ...

So he can go fuck right off. Especially when he starts inserting his politics into the article. Protip: saying anything like this makes you look like an absolute fucking moron to anyone who doesn't think "how hard should we beat our women?" or whatever is one of the serious questions of t...

To be fair before Skyrim the elder scroll series was pretty niche. I have no idea what basis for that you've got. Oblivion was extremely popular, Morrowind was...well, it wasn't necessarily the first RPG people would name in 2002-2004, but probably in top-5 of those. Daggerfall and Arena, on the ot...