Zero Buzz on 5E...Is It Dead Out The Gate?
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To be fair, i might give Zak and RpgPundit a special thanks in my rpg under a heading along the lines of "Special Thanks as Examples of Stupidity."
...but then Mearls would be there too.
...but then Mearls would be there too.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
In case someone wants to go through it, here is a small adventure booklet(pdf) or something, with monster stats and encounters etc: http://media.wizards.com/downloads/dnd/ ... s_Next.pdf
Interesting note: apparently CR and encounter XP don't have anything to do with each other. So you can have a CR 2, 450 XP monster and a CR 2, 40 XP monster.
Oh and latest article talking about encounter design.
Interesting note: apparently CR and encounter XP don't have anything to do with each other. So you can have a CR 2, 450 XP monster and a CR 2, 40 XP monster.
Oh and latest article talking about encounter design.
That quote it.... it just makes me sad.(One of the most memorable games I played in featured a running battle between 1st-level characters and an ogre.)
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Gary Gygax wrote:The player’s path to role-playing mastery begins with a thorough understanding of the rules of the game
Bigode wrote:I wouldn't normally make that blanket of a suggestion, but you seem to deserve it: scroll through the entire forum, read anything that looks interesting in term of design experience, then come back.
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That article...
That's just mind-boggling. I know it's been said before...but how the hell are the rules not ready if you're releasing in November? It's July now, there's only like 3-4 months to go...Warning: These are not final rules. Although they've been playtested thoroughly, you can expect some adjustments before they debut in the Dungeon Master's Guide in November.
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Koumei: and if I wanted that, I'd take some mescaline and run into the park after watching a documentary about wasps.
PhoneLobster: DM : Mr Monkey doesn't like it. Eldritch : Mr Monkey can do what he is god damn told.
MGuy: The point is to normalize 'my' point of view. How the fuck do you think civil rights occurred? You think things got this way because people sat down and fucking waited for public opinion to change?
PhoneLobster: DM : Mr Monkey doesn't like it. Eldritch : Mr Monkey can do what he is god damn told.
MGuy: The point is to normalize 'my' point of view. How the fuck do you think civil rights occurred? You think things got this way because people sat down and fucking waited for public opinion to change?
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Standard shill-bait disclaimer. If people catch previews and leaks that put the product in a bad light, then the fanbois can just keep claiming that it's improper to judge what we've seen because it'll be totally fixed and awesome when the REAL release comes out so STOP CRITICIZING IT.
Standard shill-bait disclaimer. If people catch previews and leaks that put the product in a bad light, then the fanbois can just keep claiming that it's improper to judge what we've seen because it'll be totally fixed and awesome when the REAL release comes out so STOP CRITICIZING IT.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Wow! That CR-XP explanation seems rather convoluted. My favorite part is the comments section, notably:
Yep, that about sums it up.some guy in the comments wrote: The lookup table posted here shows how poorly thought out this was. Levels 10-11, 12-13, 15-16 and 19-20 share exp values? Not only does that look sloppy and arbitrary like you just couldn't be bothered to do any more work, but it also implies that there is no appreciable character growth between those levels??
The reply to that comment just proves Lago right:
t's a work in progress, but since fighters get an additional attack, rogues another die of precision damage, and the spellcasters their first third-level spells at 11th level, I think that one obviously merits a line to itself.
Gary Gygax wrote:The player’s path to role-playing mastery begins with a thorough understanding of the rules of the game
Bigode wrote:I wouldn't normally make that blanket of a suggestion, but you seem to deserve it: scroll through the entire forum, read anything that looks interesting in term of design experience, then come back.
RPGPundit is also fbmf's negaverse counterpart, and keeps tight and capricious control over the infernal pit of theRPGSite.com.
Kaelik especially loves them guys. They're the folks who offered to travel door to door, kicking the ass of any cleric caught buffing himself. Then they had a fight betwern a devil and a party, where their guy got bored and wandered off, declaring victory.
They also had an argument with Frank about how fighters could beat dragons that got progressively more ridiculous. I mostly just watched and wondered.
Personally, I'm mystified how you can like Amber and hate storygames.
Kaelik especially loves them guys. They're the folks who offered to travel door to door, kicking the ass of any cleric caught buffing himself. Then they had a fight betwern a devil and a party, where their guy got bored and wandered off, declaring victory.
They also had an argument with Frank about how fighters could beat dragons that got progressively more ridiculous. I mostly just watched and wondered.
Personally, I'm mystified how you can like Amber and hate storygames.
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
Fighters always beat dragons, its very simple. Fighters have exactly a 1 in a million chance of beating a dragon and a 1 in a million shot always comes through in a good story.fectin wrote:They also had an argument with Frank about how fighters could beat dragons that got progressively more ridiculous. I mostly just watched and wondered.
Discworld logic would have been an improvement. Highlights I recall included "hide behind a nearby waterfall and shoot it with arrows," "have your personal army of tiny men shoot it," and "climb a nearby tower, wait for it to fly by, then jump on its back."
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
Of course no retread of those debates can be complete without your magnum opus.fectin wrote:Discworld logic would have been an improvement. Highlights I recall included "hide behind a nearby waterfall and shoot it with arrows," "have your personal army of tiny men shoot it," and "climb a nearby tower, wait for it to fly by, then jump on its back."
fectin wrote:The shades of night were falling fast,
as through the message board he passed,
a fool with vigor and with vim,
and motto which sustained him:
Ignoratio!
His chin was bare; his beard beneath,
bedraggled as if cheerful wreath,
once full of merry Christmas cheer,
had festered, forgotten, for untold years,
Ignoratio!
In happier games he saw the light,
of well-wrought rules, balanced and tight,
but grumbling grognards urged him on,
and from his lips escaped a groan:
Ignoratio!
"Don't roll fighter," Frank Trollman said.
"A Great Wyrm lingers overhead!
A wizard's needed to fight in the sky!"
Still loud that quarrelsome voice replied:
Ignoratio!
"I'll mount the church-tower; hide inside!
And when that lizard happens by,
jump on him, whilst my army, from below,
fills him with arrows!" (It just goes to show,
Ignoratio!)
A plan, at least, to fell the lizard
(though no plan's needed with a wizard),
Alas fell beastie sees him on the stair,
burns the risers, and traps him there!
Ignoratio!
Oh, curse that evil, agéd genius' guile!
Oh curse the Troll Man's mocking smile!
"It's his fault! Rainman! Somehow I'll prove..
(That's it! I know! I'll use...
Ignoratio!")
The dragon calmly turns about;
the archer army, frightened, routs;
with just one bite, the captain's gone,
leaving grognard all alone.
Ignoratio!
All night long, the city burns.
All night long, the neckbeard yearns
for a warm, mother-like DM,
who'll hide how much he coddles him,
Ignoratio!
But now cold snow is falling fast,
and grognard wishes he had classed
as something with a cold resistance.
Mais non! He's fighter at his own insistence.
Ignoratio!
But now there comes an end at last,
BENOIST is frozen fast!
(His head's still firmly... well, you know)
But hear him yet! He faintly gasps:
Ignoratio!
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Fan boys are always going to say that crap. I actually was skimming the WotC boards yesterday, and someone was pointing out problems with 5E's basic rules and someone replied how it's only version 0.1 and it'll all be fixed by version 1.0.Lago PARANOIA wrote: Standard shill-bait disclaimer. If people catch previews and leaks that put the product in a bad light, then the fanbois can just keep claiming that it's improper to judge what we've seen because it'll be totally fixed and awesome when the REAL release comes out so STOP CRITICIZING IT.
I really like the part where he realized his party was fucked and gave up, and it did pretty much directly lead to the quote in my sig. But for me, my favorite part was the rechallenge.fectin wrote:Then they had a fight betwern a devil and a party, where their guy got bored and wandered off, declaring victory.
Because in order to prove me wrong about my claim that PCs fighting four EL=Partly level fights a day played by intelligent monsters who they didn't know of in advance would lose, they proposed the following rules:
1) Party of level 10 characters faces a single CR 9 monster.
2) Party knows what monster it fights.
3) Party knows what monster it fights and totally gets to tailor their build for it by taking holy weapons, because anyone in any game ever uses those.
4) Party gets to know every action taken by CR 9 monster so they can metagame.
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The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
Amazing. I had missed that.
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
I didn't. I remember the thing well. One guy actually didn't believe that fighters couldn't keep up with casters and I was challenged to show just that. Which I did though we couldn't finish because the person acting as GM threw his hands up in the air when someone mentioned that the dire bats I was swarming him and his mount with didn't get their AoOs. Now this was after the GM ruled that my bats can't see through the Solid Fog I'd made, had a chance to attack each other, the ride DC was increased for me to cast on my mount, , alleging that I refuse to go along with the check (even though I had already rolled it and sent him the results), and an argument about whether or not I could use Silent image to make a screen around/in front of myself. It all didn't matter because my un-optimized conjuration specialist wizard (who basically carried a sack of scrolls) had already won the fight and anyone who would've been watching could've easily seen it but later on one of the onlookers called it cheap for me to use solid fog and summon stuff.fectin wrote:Amazing. I had missed that.
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Sounds crazy but Solid Fog was described as "overpowered" I believe.GnomeWorks wrote:"Hey, using the abilities of your class to demonstrate that your class is mechanically superior to another isn't fair!"MGuy wrote:but later on one of the onlookers called it cheap for me to use solid fog and summon stuff.
What.
Well, sure. But wasn't that the whole point?!
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
Last time I checked, published material still needs a 2-3 month lead time between final version and printing. So not only shill bait, but completely disingenuous shill bait. Plus, of course, the PH absolutely must be done for next month's release, as does the MM. So fuck the encounter design table of bullshit numbers* that don't make any sense if the character classes and their opponents are already finished!Lago PARANOIA wrote:@phlapjackage
Standard shill-bait disclaimer. If people catch previews and leaks that put the product in a bad light, then the fanbois can just keep claiming that it's improper to judge what we've seen because it'll be totally fixed and awesome when the REAL release comes out so STOP CRITICIZING IT.
*seriously, zero aspects of that table make sense. Things aren't adjusted consistently, Easy sometimes doesn't change for 3 levels, and I really can't believe that Challenging and Hard just consistently double and triple at all levels, when easy and moderate don't even have a relationship.
And its seriously unforgivable at the start, where most people are going to be playing. Easy can't be the same for levels 1 & 2 when the party pretty specifically has 50-100% more resources, nor can a moderate level 2 fight be an easy and moderate level 1 fight smushed together- especially with that bullshit about the number of monsters in relation to the party.
Once again Meals designs a shit-terrible system, proceeds to completely ignore it and pronounces the system working as intended. Even better, encounter design promises to be 5e's system debacle. Thats a hell of a lot worse than the skill challenges that didn't exist before and no one cared about.from the idiot's article wrote: In my own games, I tend to use only challenge rating to gauge monster power, then wing it from there when designing encounters.
@ishy- that pdf is pretty dated- it is completely unchanged from the version that was released after GenCon last year- it in fact came zipped with the final playtest package last October. A lot of it does carry over, but they have redone levels and XP ratings since that document. None of what we've seen is in that doc, but notably orcs have the same HP as the hobgoblins we have seen and are listed as level 3 rather than CR 1/2.
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Well, after looking at it, they've managed to "work" on this since October 2010 and they produced porridge. It is a bit watered down, lukewarm and not sugared of seasoned, but this is Porridge 0.1 and they'll totally have it be a flavorful and hot Porridge 1.0 by November. Because they couldn't get it right in 4 years but the developers are gonna ace it in the next 12 weeks.
I've got zero expectations. It looks like 2.0 and 3.5 put in a blender set to "Whirling Apathy." So unlike 4E, it probably won't give you prostate cancer, but there will be zero reason to play it over 3.5 or Pathfinder 2.0
I've got zero expectations. It looks like 2.0 and 3.5 put in a blender set to "Whirling Apathy." So unlike 4E, it probably won't give you prostate cancer, but there will be zero reason to play it over 3.5 or Pathfinder 2.0
I wouldn't call it nonsensical. Swords are expensive compared to hammers.sarcasmoverdose wrote: G) Equipment. All of 4e's "this weapon/armor is the one true weapon/armor". Nonsensical pricing (maul and greatsword are pretty much identical, greatsword costs 5x
Your maul is going to have a wood handle and an simple iron or lead head. It's most likely created by pouring molten lead into a mold, since lead has a realitvely low melting point.
The Greatsword, on the other hand, is a piece of steel that has to be hammered into shape, heat treated to exacting specifications, polished and sharpened, and peened.
The material is much more expensive and the crafting process is much more labor intensive. Not to mention more time consuming.
Oh, it'll work fine.
For a while.
For a while.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!