Recent content by Staffan

Yes, and that's the point. Separating mundane and magical currencies means both that you don't have merchants and nobles automatically gaining a lot of personal power through the use of magic items, and that you can have adventurers blinged out with magic stuff who don't know where their next...

I have no reason to disbelieve the stated reason: they were afraid someone like Disney or Meta would eat their lunch, and the hit to the existing OGL ecosystem was collateral damage.

Right. That's why I think having parallel currencies is the way to go. Then you can be fairly lavish with "worthless" gold which PCs will spend on fun stuff, and let them hoard the power currency which they can then turn into actual power.

You'd think that, but black makes for crap visuals. You generally want at least a purple corona or something.

My issue with Icons is mostly that they are a "per session" thing. My main group usually plays for what in theory is three hours on one weeknight per week, but between people being late and us spending time catching up and such it's more like two hours in practice. And with an average of one...

Sure. My point was mainly that you can't just translate "Inspiring word 2-3x/encounter" in 4e to "healing word 2-3x/short rest" in 5e, because the limiting factors on both are very different. I can agree to that. It should, however, be capable of healing on par with a non-life cleric, or a bard...

It should be noted that the 4e warlord had two Inspiring Words per encounter (three at some point). But on the other hand, the limit on Inspiring Word wasn't warlord-centric – it was the fact that the target got to spend a healing surge, and if they don't have any left they're SOL.

One of the strong points of 4e was the WoW-inspired roles, where multiple classes could each fill those roles. So you didn't specifically need a cleric for healing – you'd do just fine with a warlord, bard, artificer, shaman, or ardent. If you want a functional table, you still need one leg in...

That's just numbers going up. At 5th level, a wizard gets to fly, deal damage in enormous AOEs, turn friend against friend, make a whole group of enemies stand around dumbfounded until they're attacked, deny enemies access to parts of the battlefield, or create shelter for the night that is...

Pretty much right, except the Miniatures Handbook was one of the first things released for 3.5e, not one of the last. It is where the Swift Action was introduced, as well as the Favored Soul and Warmage classes as well.

Huh. Would Order of the Stick count?

The dude did spend 23 years in the armies of Rohan and Gondor under an alias, and led several important military campaigns including defeating the Corsairs of Umbar.

Part of this is not just found in the Warlord class, but also in the Fighter class. In 4e, the Fighter was a Defender – or a tank, in MMO parlance. They could take a lot of damage, and dish out OK but not amazing damage, and penalize enemies for attacking their allies. The 5e fighter is a much...

I think there's some good creative juice in a bit of back-and-forth here. Something like having the lead designers come up with an overall concept and some things that belong with that concept, and then tossing those things to concept artists to see what sort of related things they come up with...

At least in Dresden Files, before you create characters you create the setting. I mean, it's assumed you're playing in the Dresden Files setting which establishes the large-scale stuff, but it's also assumed you're not playing in Chicago so you need to decide on the local stuff. You start by...