Recent content by Gondsman

while i could maybe see some value in WOTC just reprinting some 3.5 books and testing out the response, see if they can pick up some extra cash, I don't think ultimately it would change anything so far as their popularity and reputation among gamers as a whole. If they do come out with a 5e...

I've found that every time I develop a plot in advance as the DM I always create my own idea of how the PC's should react and when they don't...I sort of lose my place and things don't go well.... I'm finding that If i just collect stat blocks and sort of approach the game like a player and let...

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I guess none of us is capable of getting their points across in text. I say, Marking should be something like this...You say, No, and it doesn't matter if the monster thinks.... etc, etc, etc, I admit, your campaign sounds like tying up one monster makes the Defender effective. If your...

So your approach to monster tactics is that all monsters are calm, cool, intelligent creatures that never make any emotional decisions? I think that you have picked one approach that is what is logical to you, and you are applying it to everyone and saying that any other idea is stupid Really...

Again you move away from the extent of the message. I'm only talking about house rules here. Ultimately the GM has to have a feel for the way the players like to play, how to keep them feeling challenged and happy. You don't TPK 8 year old's on their first game ever, but with older players...

That isn't what i said. GM's can have fun, I just don't beleive they should seek it at the players' expense. When a house rule makes the game tougher for the player's to be successful, and the GM enforces it just because of his opinions, the game suffers. And now i digress with...

That's all well and good as long as there is transparency and the Players have some reasonable chance of figuring out your justification of bad guy tactics. When you deliberately make it harder when the Players don't do what you would have done.....I can't say anything nice about that...

I'm not saying the dm should only target the defender, I'm saying that completely ignoring the defender and everyone targeting a single striker all at once isn't going to make friends with anybody. I just finished an encounter where we were defending a palisade from the kobolds we stole it...

I think the DM is this case is trying to play the wrong game. If the Tank is doing everything he can to pull agro and the dm ignores the fact that that is his hole purpose in the game and focuses on the strikers just because, then he's just being evil. This game is designed around combat...

wow, i totally didn't expect this to turn into a RAW vs House rule war. just a note, while the RAW for the light shield says "Description: While you’re using a light shield, you can use your shield hand to hold another item, to climb, and the like, but you can’t make attacks with that hand or...

I'm definitely going to have to talk with our GM on this one. We so far played one 5 hour session, and both of the combats took place at night. Given that statistically the "random" encounters (which both fell on the Leader's watch) only happen at night, then the armor rule of not sleeping in...

Now i know in 3e there were rules about sleeping in armor, but I can't find any for 4e. The guy running our home campaign seems to think there is one though, and short of waiting for WOTC to tell me, does anyone know offhand where such a rule, if it exists, is to be found? For my...

i should warn though, it's been a decade since i've even seen a 2e book or played it. THACO is beyond my ken.

I was excited for encounters just to have a regular game night for once, but i'm very quickly becoming less than jazzed. We get the cheaters, our store allows any class/feats not just the standard Essentials books, but we've got a couple of guys who show up and must be using quantum physics...