casterblaster
First Post
Just go skateboard until the articles come out
I'm going to expect this is the case. Mike said on Reddit a week ago:
"The DMG breaks down CR into an offensive and defensive rating, with a range of values for each (attack bonus and damage for offense, AC and hit points for defense). Special abilities can also modify those CRs, and this is where a fair amount of design sense and playtesting comes in to make sure that something is weighed correctly.
"Once you're done, you simply average out offensive CR and defensive CR to come to your final rating. Again, you might adjust a little in either direction for monsters with weird abilities, but the process is easy if you're making typical monsters."
Cheers!
Such as?sure, a bias against dishonesty and unfulfilled promises.
and pardon me for not wanting to wait on some dumb article after already spending two years with the playtest in hopes of getting all that stuff in the DMG.
No gestalt rules or further options for multiclassing.
Admittedly, it would be frustrating to those people that want some of what was cut.... because we could be looking at months or even 2016 before getting some of this, given the pace they are posting anything right now. I look forward to the book, but less so than I was.
I'm going to expect this is the case. Mike said on Reddit a week ago:
"The DMG breaks down CR into an offensive and defensive rating, with a range of values for each (attack bonus and damage for offense, AC and hit points for defense). Special abilities can also modify those CRs, and this is where a fair amount of design sense and playtesting comes in to make sure that something is weighed correctly.
"Once you're done, you simply average out offensive CR and defensive CR to come to your final rating. Again, you might adjust a little in either direction for monsters with weird abilities, but the process is easy if you're making typical monsters."
Cheers!
Such as?
What promises are unfulfilled?
Were mass combat and kender the make-or-break content?
If you thought everything that was ever mentioned during the playtest counted as a promise, you obviously have a very selective memory. They told you like a gazillion times that nothing -- NOTHING -- that they wrote during playtest was set in stone, and none of it constituted a "promise." Especially not lists of things they thought might be appropriate for a hypothetical DMG that they hadn't even started writing yet.and pardon me for not wanting to wait on some dumb article after already spending two years with the playtest in hopes of getting all that stuff in the DMG.