Recent content by shamsael

I've been using this feature for a few weeks.

Fair enough. I didn't realize the setting was so 'fantastical'. The complaints leveled on this thread implied that it was lacking in the sorts of things you just mentioned. And for the record, yes: there is a distinct lack of dungeon delving and monster slaying in my real life experience.

Isn't fantasy supposed to be about imagining a life you couldn't otherwise live? I'm sad to think that there are enough people in the world with a lack of real world romance and politics that we can support an RPG based on imagining them.

I'm not a feminist by any stretch, but this argument is ridiculous. Let's pretend we don't already reduce to a die roll a living creature's ability to survive despite the protagonist's righteous desire to kill it. Not being an Anita Sarkeesian myself I can't say for sure, but I would bet that...

Humble Bundle, on the other hand considers the entire amount a donation (less processing fees probably), and allows you to choose what percentage of your donation, if any, goes toward Humble Bundle, the game developers, or the charity.

If you really need to know my thinking, the page said I was purchasing a $70 value. $70 for the physical books seemed appropriate. I'd rather pay full cover price for the real books and give $10 of my own money to Reading is Fundamental than pay the discounted price for some digital copies and...

Was really psyched to have payed for these books until I received... A download link... I didn't realize I was paying for ebooks. Any word on what charities are benefitting and what percentage goes to them by default? Unless this is for a cause I can really get behind, I'm going to be seeking...

I've always told haters that 4th edition is the REAL dungeons and dragons, that it brings the game back to its real roots as a system for man-to-man combat. The original books only really addressed how one fights, leaving nom-combat interaction up to the imagination. The original books even...

Multiclassing is so inefficient in 5e, if you really want to curtail minmaxing you should REQUIRE multiclassing.

Maybe the Natural World itself is a dream. The standard races sleep because they are figments of the Dreamer's imagination and bound by the rules it creates. Elves are dreamers themselves. The never sleep within the dream, and seem to live on, unchanging for as long as the elf sleeps in...

Savage attack doesn't have to keep the second roll.

I guess it's lost in translation. Savage attack, normal hit: 1d8+4. Roll twice, use ONE of the results. Savage attack, critical hit: 2d8+4. Roll twice, use ONE of the results.

2d8+4 If you don't like the total, roll it again. But you're still limited to 2d8+4

Amazon has the page count at 320. Unless there's a 15 page index, I'd say the book has gotten bigger And that that ToC is inaccurate. Even the firearms rules we can see here are in page 266, which the ToC claims is "Creating a Monster".

Speaking of BECMI warmachine, I'm using it in my current 5e campaign.