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The Vikings/Norse/Germanic mythology is unique for a few things a couple of them are that A.) Being a god doesn't make you immortal per-say. B.) They had an end of the world theory. They were the only polytheistic religion to believe in an apocalypse. Yes but if you go through the mythology...

The Vanir aren't god-like they are gods, the Vanir and the Aesir are the two houses of gods, the Vanir are the gods that had always existed in the Viking Pantheon, the Aesir are the gods that came into the pantheon from outside cultures. The Dvargar were very active in Norse mythos, also they...

"The Hand is quicker than the eye." "Bloody coins, are still coins" Which works as a split statement as well, knock on the door and get "Bloody coins..." reply "are still coins" "The puppets dance, at the will of an unseen hand" ("Die Puppe tanz, nach Lust und Laune ein Unsichtbare Hand") -...

My bad, none of my characters have used crossbow because of the loading quality, which I had grown accustomed to Pathfinder's use of it, which restricted movement. The DM in our campaign treated it as such for the one character that uses a crossbow. Good to know. So yeah, Crossbow Expert is...

I was listening to 40:1 by Sabaton (good song) and it got me thinking about the soldiers who stand against impossible odds, entering combat knowing they will die, but feeling that it is worth it. This gave me a couple of ideas, one a campaign with an impossible battle end scenario a truly heroic...

The Feat isn't so powerful that you turn hand crossbows into glocks with bolts. The feat is to allow you to move and fire a crossbow in the same round, which is a big step up from being stuck in one spot as long as you want to use your crossbow. Also, the entire game is a Fantasy element, by the...

See I interpret that as it doesn't take as long to reload a crossbow, not that you can reload telekinetically. That's why it says you can only use a loaded crossbow as a secondary attack. You still need a free hand to reload. RAW.

I despise AP's but that's just a taste issue, the first DM I ever played with was horrible for railroading us without them, so I played with a new DM and he decided to use an AP; it was the first campaign he ever ran, after the first railroad my character became a nuisance, I found every reason...

The setting is definitely preferred to be a homebrew in an expansive world with lots of flavor, a good mix of city adventures with careful planning and negotiation, wide open plains where there's no where to hide from a nasty enemy, woods, mountains, underground, would love to play a game with...

I would actually allow them the full benefits of a short rest. The only actual difference between a long and short rest is duration, therefore, they had achieved a short rest, I'd have them roll any hit die they want to roll before initiative. They were planning on a long rest, but they also...

I've dealt with the Dwarven races this way: Mountain Dwarves: Large cities are built the same way as citadel cities, instead of a walled city they build the city inside a mountain the farm and pasture lands are outside the gates to the mountain keep. They have large areas underneath the city in...

Composite bows on the other hand are in previous editions have a Str rating and short composite bows were used by the mongols to capture the largest contiguous empire in the history of man. Fear the mounted barbarian who weilds a short composite bow

I was just answering the OP's question.

I'm not sure about 2E or 3.XE but I know in Pathfinder there were composite bows that had strength ratings. They are very simple: +4 Composite Longbow, dex hit and damage but due to the pull strength of the bow you must have a Strength Score of 18 to use it, if you are proficient with bows and...

I was wrong, not DMG but PHB, First paragraph of the Classes chapter. Not really put in as an optional statement but rather as a description of what player characters are.

The reality is what I said about the PC's being extraordinary is a line I paraphrased from the DMG it is an essential design element of D&D that the characters are unique and more powerful than most. As for a statement of this would you have the towns people stand up and take care of their...

Thanks, I actually got a great one on one tutorial from one of the guys on this board for Fantasy grounds. I think I am going to use it

Really it is, they are both optional. Both are a DM's discretion, both are optional for effects on game mechanics.

What I meant by that is our characters take exceptional careers and go on epic quests in search of fame and glory or mystical knowledge and rare items, quest to defeat a great foe things that are extraordinary. I don't know about you but I have never played a cobbler, baker or stableboy class...

I think the biggest issue in this topic is that certain people feel that the non-human races in D&D need to be X amount different and Y amount flamboyant about it. It's the "If I forget your player is a non-human for five seconds while your talking..." mindset. The reality is, people play the...