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One other observation on this: Show me an adventurer who is guaranteed to always only ever be attacked at most twice per round and always with melee weapons that can be parried, and I'll show you an adventurer for whom wielding a second parrying weapon is strictly superior to wielding a medium...

If you do have a concern, provide a light shield with the parrying quality: concern addressed, no?

Also, unless I've missed something, the answer is still "assuming the party all Cooks and always succeeds, an arbitrarily lengthy Journey is feasible without even needing Supply." Now, those are some pretty chunky assumptions, but...

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The two do rather go hand-in-hand, but from my reading, Prestige is presented as primarily focused on mechanics, from the player's perspective, designed to get something special that would be abnormal but not impossible for them to obtain... relative to their current Prestige. Billing your...

Or fill out one of those Bill Me Later cards... I feel like in an era before easy access to instant communication, the large volume of historical figures (fictional or not) I've read about as In possession of a castle, manor, farm, or other holding at which enough people are employed Not at...

I don't disagree with you. I'm on record in several places with the stated intent to run my games a particular way that is in largely line with your suggestions. :D I don't need convincing, and I don't think that I have a problem that remains in need of a solution about this topic for my own...

The way I'd handle it would depend on the setting. The sense I have is that the presentation of both the A5E Black Powder and the Unstable Arcanum are likely correlated, in that it's likely that the Black Powder is created using Unstable Arcanum in some fashion. This makes sense for settings...

I get something different out of the RAW text of Elusive: (emphasis mine) To me, that says "you must use your reaction to parry an attack" and "you must parry an attack using a Parrying weapon". As I indicated above, under the strictest reading of RAW, I don't think that's presently possible...

I don't at all disagree with you, in fact, that's largely where I come out on this as well. Honestly, regardless of intentions, I do plan to run the features as: "Expertise dice", whenever and under whatever circumstances they are gained, will be interpreted as intended to be rolled and the...

I concede the point: the rules as written, under the strictest interpretation provide no identified meaning to the phrase "...you can gain an expertise die to your AC..." Under the first order interpretation, though, it either still provides not identifiable meaning, or it doesn't address why...

A quick text search in the v2 AG for "force damage" yields 36 results (though there may be others that are not returned due to line breaks), of which 35 are decidedly magically flavored, with the 36th being in the description of black powder itself. The majority of instances of the term are...

I've yet to identify a section of the rules that articulates that a spell on a scroll is hard-associated with a particular slot level. TT indicates that all spells cast from items (including scrolls): Except that the section in the rules on 'Casting spells without slots' (pg 492) specifically...

Well, generally, yes, you can't apply expertise dice to AC, as AC isn't a rolled value, and expertise dice are only generally described as applying, and stacking, to rolled values. Specific overrides general, though, and the Parrying property, the Duelist Parry and Thrust and Elusive features...

Based on what I'm reading in TT, though, it will always be less expensive to craft your own magical items than to get someone else to craft them for you. The TT rules say: To me, this reads as "you, the player, are making an item from scratch (raw materials) and enchanting it with magic, all...

It's interesting, because I actually think that the rules might be serendipitously written, just as they are, in a way that positions them to be able to support both: pre-renaissance societies post-renaissance societies By which I mean, "societies in which the vast majority of things are made...

Marshal 1, Warlock X?

As far as I can tell, the revised version reads the same. I agree that, at first glance, it seems like some kind of violation of something for someone to scribe a scroll of Fireball at minimum strength, slot-wise, and then for someone (possibly the same someone) to come along (maybe as little...

I like the math, it's elegant and tidy, as applied to a uniform distribution of abilities. I'm not sure that the actual maneuvers, as they advance through degrees, hold up their end of "being sufficiently uniform" though. All Combat Traditions have 4x 1st degree maneuvers, 2x 5th degree...

I posted an analysis of this on Morrus' discord... As presently written, suppose I'm a 15th level Duelist dual-wielding Scimitars (which effectively have the parrying property thanks to Parry and Thrust), and that I have the Parrying Counter combat maneuver. Under RAW, I can: Use my reaction...