Recent content by Lanefan

Or find a way to pile on temporary hit points faster than you lose them?

One question not covered in the OP is the level of wealth-resources-etc. the real-world version has, or has access to. If we're to use our own personal wealth etc. for this, my (and, likely, true for many of us) options would be very limited. But if we can assume Bruce Wayne levels of wealth...

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I do this, when it seems to make sense, but there's no real way to hard-code much of it as every situation is different and it might not even apply across the board within a given combat. For example, a Human trying to fight in 3'-tall Kobold tunnels will be at some minuses to start with and...

And often can't be done in advance at all. When the party reach a given encounter I've no way of knowing ahead of time whether they'll have cast Strength on their warriors (raising their Strength score by 1-8 points and thus almost certainly raising their to-hit and damage bonuses) and-or how...

It's fairly rare that a known player-side bonus is negative. Most negative modifiers are applied by DM-side things that the players (both in and out of character) don't know about: a cursed item, a Bane effect on an area, that sort of thing. Player-side negative modifiers pretty much only ever...

Part of that is there's already so many spells out there it can be hard to come up with a new idea.

For THAC0 to be of much use it requires the player to know the target's AC, which they often don't until the combat is nearly over anyway. Roll the d20, add your bonuses, and leave it to me to figure out if you hit or not.

So far your collective ideas for a Wine domain sounds pretty much like what Dionysus and his Clerics already are in my game. :) The Celts had a god(dess?) of beer, and Dwarves just have to by default. A long way upthread here there's a couple of really good images of what could be beer-cult...

Thief-Illusionist rolls d5 (average of d6 and d4). 10 of those would average exactly 30, meaning if the rolls were just a slight bit below average overall it'd be in the mid-high 20s, with the body points (usually 3 or 4) taking it to around 30. Con bonus for this character isn't a thing...

Oh, they do - but even then the time it takes still accumulates. :)

Right now the crew I'm running range from a Fighter with just over 100 h.p. all the way down to a Thief-Illusionist who is in the low 30s I think. Level range is about 8th-11th; what really makes the group tough to scare is their massive healing resources: in a party of nine (including henches)...

Permanent modifiers aren't the problem. For example, if your go-to weapon is a +2 longsword you'll always remember that +2 and if your strength always gives you +1 to hit and +2 damage you'll remember that too. It's the temporary modifiers that IME slow things down. My lot are always casting...

Which helps boost the usefulness of Charisma as a stat. OK. :( One outlier - which Glock certainly was - shouldn't be the reason for redesigning the whole system. There's been a few similar examples before and since that took hold and prospered, and others that while having stupendous stats...

Problem is, oftentimes the "something specific" a player might be looking for can't be achieved in point buy. How, in point buy, can I get a wizard with 18-Int and 7-Wis (which is for me the ideal stat setup for a wizard)? That's right, I can't. And maybe I can't with rolling either, but at...