Recent content by vagabundo

Its more like having the sword of Damocles over your head. Who knows if it will be you that WotC lawyers will strike to make the example. If they decide to go that route. They might thy the softly softly approach, no legal battles, but over time collect big players into the fold. Let the other...

4e missed a trick here. They should have keyed powers by power source and then each class have its own features that interact with them in interesting ways etc. A lot of the powers were very similar with small riders to differentiate or scale them.

Is keep it. BUT I'd give it a grey box gazetteer overview and maybe one or two starting places and then tell DMs that it's there are a multiverse of FRs and to take from the setting books what they like. In the DM guide maybe Loudwater or Neverwinter, somewhere in the Dale's and somewhere...

Wouldn't 2*prof~1/2 level?

Stat capped at 18 for that b/x vibe.. I like it.

ha, people would hate it but 1/2 level instead of proficiency bonus. Its much more manageable in the 1-20 level range ( and most games don't go above level 10 I'd wager).

I've not paid much attention to 5e since the playtests. I noped out once they ditched XP budgets and 4e monster design. DM convenience was a deal breaker for me. I've played in a game run by my ten year old nephew though.

There's definately a much sweeter spot that we got. Maybe instead of 1/2 level everything is 1/4 or 1-20 is the level max or maybe they are built using something like 4e companion rules (like SW saga damage scaling).

That whole summary made me vomit a little - in my mind. During that process I wanted a cleaned up 4e engine with less feat and power bloat (powers combined with proper level damage scaling or shared between power sources and modified by class abilities). Add some more natural language in the mix...

Bloodied is great in 4e as its a number you can easily reference. It's easy to remember and can impact both mechanics and the narrative in interesting ways. WotC were fools to get rid of it.

Well it would be the default for "half" races. But you could just have the standard packet of traits if you just want to roll and elf. Basically a multiclassing for races option. As long the the option was presented as an way that shows its an equal to picking a "full" race option I think it...

I'm an elf, but my grandfather was an orc and somewhere I had a Dragonborn ancestor: I can pick one elf, orc and dragonborn trait. I don't think its mechanically hard to do if its structured right.

Majority of stuff that was cut from 4e integrated back in. Especially around Monsters/NPCs, XP budgets. etc..

One of the few things I'd take from 5e for my 4e game would be beefier feats. Having a tonnes of little piddly adjustments is just bad.

4e tactical combat blows all other editions out of the water, having run them all. It can get a little finicky, with multiple conditions and whatnot. But over the years of running it it led to some of the best combats I've ever had. I created a black dragon lair in some caverns beneath the...