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Today, 12:07 AMYou want to play a barbarian. It is a str/con save class that needs all three plysical stats to function and is impotent outside of melee charing...170 replies | 8873 view(s)
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Yesterday, 11:22 PMTelok replied to a thread Guardrails: avoiding unexpected breakage vs preventing exploits in Roleplaying GamesIn D&D 5e I've never seen anything short of absolute total cover/concealment do a damn thing. The movement rules, melee range requirement for many...64 replies | 7272 view(s)
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2024-03-15, 02:48 PMHeh. Reminds me of one fight, about 13th or 14th level. We opened a door and saw bunches of coffins in the part of the room we could see. Naturally...170 replies | 8873 view(s)
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2024-03-14, 11:42 PMNon sequitur. I fail to inderstand what you're talking about. Context? Unrelated to Kel: It looks like monster save dcs scale linear about 8...170 replies | 8873 view(s)
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2024-03-14, 12:12 PMAh, so it is that the game has gone back to "you need a cleric in the party for heals in order for it to be fun". Its just been pushed back to level...170 replies | 8873 view(s)
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2024-03-12, 07:19 PMYou're saying monster save dcs don't go up? I thought the math was pretty simple; of con/dex/wis a character is proficient in one save that will...170 replies | 8873 view(s)
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2024-03-12, 11:03 AMBut players don't get a choice that their characters will fail more saves as the levels increase against save-or-lose effects that become ever more...170 replies | 8873 view(s)
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2024-03-11, 11:33 PMSo you want people to spend 2 asi getting their core stat up, then another on resilient, then the remaining two on another stat in order to get worse...170 replies | 8873 view(s)
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2024-03-11, 10:10 PMSo you advocate a character spending 4/5 ASIs over 20 levels to go from a +2 con/dex/wis save to a +11 save so they can maintain parity with one of...170 replies | 8873 view(s)
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2024-03-05, 01:57 AMThat reminds me. We had a zealot barb who was quite discontent from... I guess around 11 to the tier 4 bit, whenever he got his "I don't care about...189 replies | 12116 view(s)
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2024-03-02, 08:52 PMThat's his real issue. Haste, Enlarge, etc., aren't going to be any good as they've been "updated". What we're really looking for is spells that...32 replies | 4872 view(s)
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2024-03-02, 01:28 AMI'm going to assume you aren't allowed the actual cool stuff like the AD&D verson of Haste. From AD&D there's Metal Skin (stoneskin plus),...32 replies | 4872 view(s)
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2024-03-01, 07:18 PMI quite agree, but others have been operating on those standards. Thats what I was speaking to. Along those lines; I joined a tier 3 game once...189 replies | 12116 view(s)
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2024-03-01, 11:38 AMTo be fair, the 5e version of "the build working" is a bar so low that a medium armor sword & board champion fighter with 15s in all stats only...189 replies | 12116 view(s)
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2024-02-27, 12:38 PMRespectfully disagree. It is typical D&D hp bloat, only with a paint job and "generic heal spells cap at about half" tacked on. Notable in that npcs...31 replies | 2027 view(s)
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2024-02-26, 08:56 PMActually 'stamina' is just hit points you can't heal with things that say "heals hit points" and have to use a 'x per day regain all stamina points'...31 replies | 2027 view(s)
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2024-02-26, 03:33 PMSWN is Stars Without Number. Other sci-fi sci-fantasy systems you can check out are Traveller (bunch of versions with more or less crunch & more or...31 replies | 2027 view(s)
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2024-02-24, 12:50 PMJust though of it... Its not a bad game. Works great if you lean into its assumptions (your technomancer is an intelligence primary caster with...31 replies | 2027 view(s)
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2024-02-24, 12:15 PMIts D&D "in! spaze! with! lazors!", mostly running on the 3.p chassis. As usual with any D&D-like setting you have to avoid any form of economic...31 replies | 2027 view(s)
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2024-02-22, 12:08 PMJust a point of info. The 'three round combat' doesn't really seem to be a thing past level 10. Across 48 sessions & 103 combats in a level 10 to...72 replies | 5533 view(s)
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2024-02-19, 08:56 PMDefine a couple actions: go faster, distraction, obstacle, hide, attack while running, big jump, etc. And of course the required "other". Set who is...16 replies | 2102 view(s)
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