Recent content by hayek

Good times! Nott, the Brave, earned her comma last night.

Woot woot!

Such an awesome, evocative setting. Best one that 2E produced IMHO.

can't tell, do these come pre-painted?

exactly.

I think you misunderstood my post. I agree that wizard spells can break a lot of traditional fantasy plots in ways that are uniquely 'D&D', and that that is awesome. I tried to provide lots of examples at the end of my post of ways in which a wizard can affect the game in unexpected (but...

See, to me, this is just an excellent argument for how ridiculously over-powered wizards were in prior editions. Someone who can, whenever they want on a limitless daily basis, turn invisible and fly anywhere (and eventually do the same for their companions) - what does this do to the world and...

For me, this is most definitely a feature not a bug. What's the point of a social/charismatic/face character if all of your social skills are completely out-classed by a simple 1st level wizard spell. I found Charm Person in past editions to be ridiculously over-powered, most importantly in...

Let's say they publish an adventure module where the players have to fight a bunch of sickly, elderly acolytes of the God of Lightning. These priests have no interesting powers to speak of and are too weak to even lift a sword and have no melee or ranged attack, however because of their limited...

I've always said that reasonable minds could certainly disagree with my argument. I would be curious about the argument you reference, though. How would spell summaries make a monster harder to run? If the reasoning is similar to the issue that Majoru Oakheart highlighted - that it would create...

I can't emphasize enough, I have no problem with this. I'll be just fine using spellcasting monsters (even if it's not my preference that they have spell lists). My argument has always been that my personal preference (and the personal preferences of others on this forum) is irrelevant to the...

I just feel like a new, inexperienced DM will not be savvy and/or bold enough to make a call to house rule a spell on the spot. Besides monster stat blocks are there to help people not have to figure out on the spot what a reasonable adversary can do. I would argue that a summary version, such...

There's some common sense to follow, as not every single rule should be duplicated. But, yes, I believe the paralyzed condition should be included in the ghoul's stat block, as it will definitely need to be referenced in order to resolve that combat. Forcing page-flipping rules referencing time...

I guess this word has a strong connotation that some people take offense to? Just replace it with the word "reason", as in "There's no reason the McBarbecue sandwich should have no Barbecue and just have a chicken patty on it". I use it to imply a logical fallacy in the game not trying to attain...

Woah, I thought we were getting on the same page, but I guess not. I reference you again to my '3 points' premise. I'm not saying it's an invalid way to do a stat block because in my opinion it's annoying. I'm saying it's an invalid way to do a stat block because it contradicts the stated goal...