Jonathan Tweet
Adventurer
How does a pre-industrial society hang together with super-powerful individuals and groups wandering the land at will, especially as these people rocket up in personal power in just a few years?
2. If Gith lay eggs, then why do female Gith have...
How does a pre-industrial society hang together with super-powerful individuals and groups wandering the land at will, especially as these people rocket up in personal power in just a few years?
My thought was that it was dangerous to do so. Perhaps I'm wrong on this. I will keep it a complaint, but maybe I should adjust my rulings on this, going forward.
My largest complaint is that there are already so many ways to circumvent the threat of death in 5e that making potion administration so easy just adds to it.
It would have been much clearer to just write "melee attack with a weapon" everywhere in the rules that they wrote "melee weapon attack".
Personally I like how the Linguistics skill works in pathfinder.
There are melee weapons that can be thrown. So there's a very practical distinction between "attack with a melee weapon" or "melee attack with a weapon," as throwing an axe at someone is ranged attack with a melee weapon, but not a melee attack, at all.I'm trying to figure out the circumstances where the difference would matter - or why Crawford got this question in the first place. ETA: I know this is the thread for pedantry, and this is pedantry and so it's appropriate. But the fact that Crawford got asked this question just blows my mind - I just have to know why it matters!
Agreed - it's one of PF's better productions, and largely adaptable to almost any system with a bit of work.I recently got the Pathfinder Ultimate Equipment book, (which is an amazing comprehensive book btw)
Well, this assumes both players and PCs are looking at things first and foremost in terms of DPR and so forth rather than characterization and flavour...which kinda brings up a peeve of mine, that being players who only view their characters in terms of how much damage they can give out each round.[/I]Another pet peeve of mine: Weapons with garbage stats. I hate it when there's a boatload of weapons in the player's handbook, and half of them no one in their right mind would ever consider taking, because of their poor damage. Then what's the point of having them at all? Do you really want to be the one in the party not pulling their weight, because you thought having a whip as a weapon was cool?
There's also d5 (easy enough to achieve by either d10/2 or d6 reroll 6s) and multiples thereof; and multiples of d3; so it's not quite as limited as you say.lowkey13 said:Assuming D&D, you have the following dice:
d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20.
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*If we throw out the 3d6 example, and we assume that D&D doesn't mix dice (no d4+d6 for a weapon), then we get the following possible ranges as a general rule:
1, 1-2, 1-3
d4, 2d4, 3d4
d6 2d6
d8
d10
d12