Recent content by Dross

Does it have to be evil? HAL from 2001. Not exactly evil. Went mad due to two contradictory commands (tell the crew needed info for theirmission v keep secret mission from crew). Asimov robot stories, and the Will Smith 'I robot' movie have a theme of enslaving humans to save them. Ultron...

Guess I'm going to be that guy. {Sarcasm/}Only 3 years for an Ap that is way to short, how am I going to have PC backstories included and players wanting a home base and fixing it up etc. {\Sarcasm} :). Unfortunately an AP needs to be a lot of things to a lot of people, so someone will see...

Wasn't clear was it? I was agreeing RES:CON was not something to pick. Q3 was the RES:WIS option.

Ok i left half speed out but it is still moving contrary to your comment. Moving at half speed typically (not always) gets them 15ft away, out of melee if flying up. Dangerous it can be, but I don't see flying becoming non conducive (possible/likely) because of this. And the are many situations...

There has been a lot of talk by people, even here, about numerous settings being converted to 5e.. However some of those settings were, lets say, handled in ways not compatible with modern sensibilities. I'd be interested in a couple of setting myself but not hanging out for them.

If you are grappled means no speed for you, but the grappler can move you, such as flying upwards. You might be right grappling not being common for flying creatures, but there are lots of ways to get to fly so I'm not sure of the point you're trying to make. And it was an answer to the question...

From what you have said I don't think any choice would be bad. For me I feel the +1 to Dex and Wis would be better. Wis: Improve DC for spells and class features, your saves, Dex: Improve range attacks, initiative, your saves. So blend of offensive and defensive, including class ability...

I would probably go prone-light. Anything towards/against the grappler by the grappled is as if prone. For anyone else not prone. I would do this because: What do you do when someone targets the grappled flying prone person with a ranged attack? Prone would mean disadvantage, but in this case...

Big fan of having survivors informing their bosses of the PC tactics. If the monsters are smart/organised* enough hit and run tactics. Stay just long enough to have the PC setup, then run away. Rinse repeat. If the PCs start charging, after a couple of scraps get a trap ready. Harass to...

Only if you think this is the only thing they were going to do, which I don't subscribe to. But you need to start somewhere. As a first step I don't mind this. At the very least they have a basis for how to go forward in a more productive way. There could have been a real OGL style lack of...

I agree with what Celebrim wrote, unless you challenge the players it would be hard to have a level independent task. Otherwise players will be... Riddles: do I know anything about the subject matter (Knowledge)? Convince someone of helping (persuasion/deception/intimidation). Etc. Maybe one...

Which begs why you even had the sentence about assuming it happens because others have said they've seen it? That answer implies...... a lot of things. Give what I've seen, I doubt that you are the only person here that can identify a RP-ing powergamer.

There is also the tendency of people to judge newbies against what they are doing now, instead of at the same time in their (in this case) RPG career. That is of the same level of fairness in comparing a professional sports person versus someone playing in a social competition.

I don't get this. You initially say that it doesn't happen because you haven't seen it, then say it can happen because people have said they have seen it. One invalidates the other. Either 1 because you have not seen a RP-ing powergamer they don't exist, which implies everyone that claims...

If you use Int as the determining factor, anyone using some other ability to cast is even more impacted, i.e. cleric, druid. In my experience guidance is the most used non combat cantrip, but even then some basic rules enforcement can cover that problem (if it comes up for us)?