Search results

Just because I don't have sleep, doesn't mean I'm wasting my only spell slot on Burning Hands. Rolling randomly, let's say I start with Charm Person, Feather Fall, and Find Familiar. I may risk casting Find Familiar, but I'm not going to memorize it ever again. Instead, I'll probably go...

Apparently, yes. I have no memory of staves not working like they do in my game, but yes, the majority of the time in staff fighting you are thrusting and not striking with it. In my game, they are reach weapons. MM is basically useless before about 7th level when it starts hitting hard...

Burning Hands is even pretty marginal in 3e when it goes out in a 10' arc and does 1d4 per level (save for half IIRC). The 3e version wouldn't be out of place in 1e. At low levels you prepared Sleep in 1e, then at higher levels you always prepared Magic Missile. I can't remember anyone ever...

I put up some initial thoughts on Revised Paladin. The main innovation is ensuring you can play something very close to the original Paladin or if you qualify for it play gestalt Paladin-Cavalier from UA. This way it's not an either/or situation, and both paladins and non-cavalier paladins...

1) Star Wars - This is of course the big one. Age five. The coolest thing I'd ever seen. 2) Battle of the Planets - Of course, this is a dumbed down version of a classic anime, but for the same 5-6 year old who loved Star Wars, this was amazing. 3) Land of the Lost - I hardly remember...

I really should have thought to check the 2e rules. They did a lot to clarify known pain problems. I do think I'm going to have to further than that though to clean up all the issues.

That's a campaign specific thing. My dungeons frequently had "traps" in the form of "check for disease exposure" (there are fleas on the dead animal, for example) and I did do monthly checks for disease exposure. And I did enjoy Wererats as foes quite a lot, and that's not just lycanthropy but...

If I revise the monk, my general approach of not gating things behind stats will apply. I think the only class that is likely to retain the pretty high bar to qualify for is Bard and technically Paladin but only because I'm likely to keep a pretty high Charisma as a requirement. And the reason...

That's just the normal way things work. This is referring to a situation where the caster declares intent to cast spells while not in melee, and the monster (say a bugbear) within say 9" of the M-U but not yet in base-to-base contact declares intent to close with and strike the M-U. I think 6...

Technically, it's not multiclassing - it's actually two different classes or two paths within the same class. You wouldn't do multiclassing things like half the hit points determined when you leveled up in one class or divide the XP among the two classes. Interesting, adding new abilities one...

I think that's kind of my point in a nutshell. It doesn't make sense given the long duration a spell takes to complete to take into account the fraction of a second longer it takes to strike with a two-handed sword compared to a dagger, especially given that this is a "close to melee" sort of...

@Mannahnin : Good informative post, but I do just want to note how incoherent it is in the fiction that the guy casting Fireball has to stand their dancing slowly and chanting for 18 seconds, and a guy with a two-handed sword is simply too slow to strike him before he finishes. There is a...

You have no idea how much I hate the monk. A rewrite of the class would be a gutting of it. I didn't allow it in 1e. I didn't allow it in 3e. If you wanted to play a monk in 3e, I would have directed you to the fighter class. If someone had asked in 1e I would have said, "It properly...

I can definitely see giving minimums for WIS and CHA instead of or as well as the ones I've listed. One good reason for doing that is the class has powers that make WIS and CHA good "dump stats", meaning you could play a Cavalier with 6 Wisdom and by mid-high levels you'd not be punished for...

I am very aware of that, but what I'm saying to you is that it doesn't make any sense. The complexities of that are handwaved away and left to the DM to work out. a) How much XP qualifies you for a class varies from class to class. Subclasses normally require more XP than base classes. So...

Yeah, I get it. It would get even worse if I rewrite the fighter to have special abilities. We don't want players gaining abilities by losing them. It's my intention to do that, per the way I've written things up, in most cases. The only case that I think it is thematic that you could...

Nope. That's a completely different issue that I knew about but didn't bring up. As I mentioned, height does follow a Gaussian distribution, but at the high and low extremes health issues take over and break the distribution. But you are completely missing my point. That's another but...

Yes, dual classing is a thing. And Lanefan is objecting to certain classes of fallen cavaliers being forced "unrealistically" to give up their martial careers. This is because as Lanefan conceptualizes his game world it's all based on materialism and education and training. And that's fine...

I literally put height in the essay as an example of where it would be true. I'd have to research. If the thing is true it would have to be true in a subset of the curve as well. So if power lifting fits, I'd expect at top power lifting competitions to see the spread between 1st and 3rd...

Yes. I know I should rewrite them but oh the pain of that job. I do miss segments and spell casting time though in later editions. Yes, it is, though I've been balancing most things around the idea if that if they aren't better than a weapon specialized fighter then they aren't broken...