Recent content by Necrofumbler

4E IHMO is the most balanced game of the entire lot. I just had very a pair of bad experiences with it. Never going to play with strangers in a public venue anymore! Always a moron and/or a dick in every such group. In the interest of sanity, I'll skip those stories. Our personal feelings of me...

Hmm, it was about 2.5 times the length, I think? Definitely shoulda cut it down way more. Well at least I had fun while typing all that so it's not all a waste lol.

Disagree on Animal Friendship. It STRONGLY depends on campaign type. If it's a standard story-driven campaign book or dungeon crawl, I agree. Utility rather limited. If it's a "PCs sent into the SHADOWLANDS OF MUCHO UNDEADS and must escape from there!" campaign, then the utility is absolutely...

I think you summed it up nicely. Necroing: Try to avoid but nobody will kill you over it if you happen to necro a bit by mistake or by politely adding relevant stuff.

Initially I posted a long post with lots of examples and tangents. But it was way too much of a TL;DR so I deleted it all, going instead only for the bullseye items. I agree. The only thing is in 1E/2E magic in general & casters had lots of harsh limitations (too many to list here). 5E...

Good advice. Uses I often go reply to a forum thread right after searching for a particular subject from Google. IMHO, yes it can defeniitelly be inattentiveness, but still, checking the date should not involve one to actually have to go out of his way to check it. The info should just be...

While all 4 of your advice bullets do not seem that obvious at first glance, they are in fact super simple commoon sense goodies. THANKS!

As a hyppo master myself, I agrree it is inn deed gloripous.

Agree on most of your ways to handle this stuff. Yes, a humous handling is morec lax and is often the default, with "dramatic serious" encounters not the norm, is best. That creates contrast and prevents everybody ending up taking oneself TOO seriously in the long run. Yes, the "be willing to...

The game is balanced around asome given character power level, and varying stats GREATLY affect this balance. While the general idea of rolling randomly has some appeal, you have to remember that this balance discrepancy is going to be a CAMPAIGN LONG aspect. Think if, game #1, you allowed...

Doubt it about the pendulum swing. If anything, the game is moving to an even greater level of "epic unkillable superheroes" play style. My main beef with 5E is that there are way too many "story tropes" that get utterly broken by commonly available very low level spells. The game is HEAVILY...

So funny to read your post. Thanks! "And unmodified vanilla 5e PHB Core Book Rangers are by far the most powerful class to play, bar none, in all and any situations or campaign type". would also be a nice contender here. >> then I would walk five miles back.... uphill again Definitely a...

At my table, player describes action AND/OR intention, and for his entire round. Then DM decides if a (some) check(s) is (are) needed, and what kind of check(s) it is. - A minimum amount of the player actually needing to roleplay his action and/or intention is assumed to be needed at least most...

Yeah necroing posts is kinda a bad habit of mine, somewhat a lot more in control nowadays than say 10 years ago, but I'm still trying to reduce it even more. Gimme another 10 years? Maybe my new 'Necrofumbler' username (awaiting moderator approval) will help me keep that bad habit more in mind...

Thanks a lot! However, I see no guideline there about the thread necroing protocol. i.e. How long before posting to an old thread is considered "bad"? Weeks?Months? Years? Forever? Thanks again.