Recent content by Badapple

Hey if I’m gonna dream on some pie in the sky "what do you want out of D&D Next", I might as well dream big and get my post in before the edition bickering starts. Here goes: I want Hasbro to give up and sell off WotC. I want Disney to buy out WotC AND Paizo and then publish four games over...

I would like to see the core books cover levels 1-10, and cover them well. To have core "adventurer tier" characters be roughly similar no matter what during those levels. I would then like to one or two future campaign sets that cover high level rules unique to those campaign sets released...

One thing as a DM that I used to hate, both in 3e and in 4e, was whenever there was a fight, it always got interrupted by at least one player wanting to make a knowledge check about the monsters. That lead to everyone in the party making a knowledge check, because it's a free action, hey why...

Cure Light Wound Wands I think there are two different forms of 3E that are being played. One has CLW wands and one doesn’t. I believe, more than any other factor, the CLW wand changes the game experience in so many ways that they are almost two totally different games. CLW wands have a...

I think you are mistaking “grittiness” for “deadliness”. In which case, sure 3E especially first level or extremely high level games are more deadly than 4E. But grittiness also encompasses a "low magic feel" and also a feel of attrition. A balor is something like a CR 18 creature I believe…...

Based on my many years of playing both 3E and 4E your argument that 3E is a default grittier game than 4E is false. All of these bullet points presented that supposedly make 4E a less grittier game exist in 3e as well. (Assuming a standard party of cleric, wizard, rogue, fighter). The truth...

I remember playing low level D&D Basic and having fighters with 13 dex and plate and shield having an AC of 1 and the monsters all needing around an 18+ on the die to hit them. I remember once I got my fighter a magic shield or magic plate he would often only be hit on a 20 in fights against...

4e players are not the targeted demographic for 5e. If D&D Next was just a 4.5 edition, then all the 4e players would just see it as a money grab (in the vein that 3.0 players saw 3.5) and all the 4e haters would still hate it, and sales would be low. WotC does need to make a new edition...

I used to roll characters, created hundreds of them for fun, mostly just collections of ability scores. One of the first BASIC programs I wrote was a character generator. To this day anytime I'm playing any kind of boardgame that has me roll three six siders, if I get a 17 or an 18, there's a...

One potential problem I see with damage thresholds is if as a DM I am running bad guys with these kinds of powers. Since as a DM I know what all my players' current hp and max hp is, I'll know which PCs will be affected and which won't. Sure, I have to try to rp the monster/npc and not use...

I'd like to see each class have unique mechanics and schticks. In that vein, I'd like to see combat superiority remain exclusively to fighters. For barbarian, I'd like to see something along the lines of how warriors work in WoW. For example every time a barbarian hits with a basic attack...

BECMI existed side by side with AD&D for years and years. It's entirely possible for WotC to support more than one edition. Especially digitally. There have been a lot of misstarts, but eventually a lot of time and labor has resulted in the current Insider, and it would only take a minimal...

In addition to the many fine things already mentioned, I like the bloodied condition - how monsters and pcs can have abilities trigger off of it... adds a nice rp element as well to combats I like temporary hit points - they've existed before, such as with the aid spell, but 4e really...

Thanks for that. And thanks for presenting/inspiring a "what if" scenario that I find particularly fascinating... Here's my take that (may) be a similar take to what you have? What if we went back in time to the announcment of D&D 4E. At that time D&D 3.5 was my far and away favorite...

That's an excellent point about compromise... If we were the UN and we had to decide policies about what dams can go up where and who has the right to divert which river between multiple countries with the same river in it's national boundries... alternative=war Or if we were a group of...