Recent content by Choranzanus

A lot of those settings feel kind of quaint now, they didnt age well. I would like to see something new.

Yes, I have played this way and I DM this way and it is my prefered style to do things. There is a few caveats thought: 1)Players like to roll the dice, to have their own destiny in their own hands so I let them roll the dice. I did the "I roll all the dice" thing for some time, but it didnt...

In my opinion fighters are really dependent on how exactly fighting system works. For example, I disagree that fighters could not be defenders in past editions, I think when you used initiative system tacticaly that was quite possible. But in any case that is something that can be done without...

Guys.... After all he said the only thing that interest you is that roles are out? This forum isn't what it used to be. What about advice for new players in the books. What kind of advice it should be? He even claims to give us a flowchart for crafting an adventure. Don't you think that is a...

Teamwork is very important but 4e roles do it the wrong way. In general it is a good thing that authors of rpg recognize that the game is played in a group. On the other hand that is precisely the problem: your role is dependent on the group and not just on your abilities. Warriors were...

Properly developed NPCs don't need just abilities and goals but also plans how they want to achieve these goals. That is what I mean by "plots". Of course if you know all this you also know what will happen without PCs since you are the one who plays these NPCs. At the same time you don't have...

I have yet to see a campaign where adding of detail is a problem, but perhaps an example would serve us well? I am sure there are plenty of such, but you are of course exxagerating. Almost all campaigns will involve something DM has prepared and something he has not. If you just make up things...

While I agree very much with the general direction of this post a slight note: a sandbox campaign should contain plots, lots of them in fact, except for the fact that these plots are going on without PCs and will continue to do so unless the PCs decide to get involved in them. If you think of...

To tell you the truth I have NO CLUE what you are trying to say with your wall of text. If you interpret my post as some kind of attack on sandbox, it isn't. I am just pointing out that when you design a "railroad" campaign you know you have to add detail, because that is effectively the only...

In my experience this is common threat in a sandbox style game, because when a DM must do a lot more NPCs, locations, plots there is a chance it will look more washed out, standart or boring. If you are doing entire world at once it is easy to overlook details, which is what really makes the...

On the topic of Zizka: that was really an interesting guy. He became a brigand after a powerful noble family of Rosenbergs in southern Bohemia killed his wife and impoverished him, but somehow he later obtained a pardon from king and even became a bodyguard of queen. He had a large sword wound...

Master of Magic is masterpiece of game design. I have been playing this game for years on DOSbox and it never gets old. There are so many possible strategies how to play the game, I just have to try all of them. Some of these strategies are totally overpowering to the poor AI wizards, but I just...

Well, even if we accepted that it is easy to change, I feel compelled to say that glowing runes and godlasers are still just examples of bad, imagination-contaminating 4e flavor. But the thing is I do not subscribe to 4e philosophy of "fit flavor to mechanics". To me the mechanics without...

Long lance is advantageous in charge, but is perhaps unwieldy when you just maneuver around. It is a compromise. It could be changing battlefield tactics that brought this about.

Minions could still use shield wall or pike formation or attack the party with a ballista. Big guns vs big guns. You really have to break from 3e mindset of very few combatants.