Tony Vargas
Legend
Down! Bad dog! This isn't your yard!But ... why?
Please, explain this to me as you might a young child, or a golden retriever. Really.
Down! Bad dog! This isn't your yard!But ... why?
Please, explain this to me as you might a young child, or a golden retriever. Really.
Mostly a self-fulfilling prophecy. Scaling in most editions makes very low and high-level play … less than ideal, but the impetus to start at low level just seems too strong (I had honestly hoped 5e'd get us over that, but no, "3rd is the new 1st" just didn't take off). So lots of play at low level, some of it leading to abandoning the campaign before it gets good, play through the sweet spot, start a new campaign.Most people don't play high levels anyway so level 21-30 is more work for no gain.
Kinda misses the point of a "clone."Advice if you're serious about this focus on cloning the playstyle and not the exact 4E interpretation of it. When I play C&C for example I'm not pretending to play 1E. It looks like 3E plays like 1E is a way to describe it I suppose.
Mostly a self-fulfilling prophecy. Scaling in most editions makes very low and high-level play … less than ideal, but the impetus to start at low level just seems too strong (I had honestly hoped 5e'd get us over that, but no, "3rd is the new 1st" just didn't take off). So lots of play at low level, some of it leading to abandoning the campaign before it gets good, play through the sweet spot, start a new campaign.
4e, with it's mechanical-illusion of a 'treadmill' was essentially all "sweet spot," it needed /more/ DM support for Epic, but the system, itself, was functional. Something you'd want to re-capture with a hypothetical 4e clone.
Kinda misses the point of a "clone."
Yep. Can't just copy/paste from an SRD.Some poor sod has to write it all.
OSRIC is what the other clones are based on though, isn't it? If a 4e clone were practical, legally, it /might/ lead to other games using it as engine, like that, too - or not.The OSR clones are not 100% accurate. I have heard OSRIC comes close but OSRIC is obsolete now and I don't think to many people use it.
You might want toi use AEDU, micro feats, or ye olde grittiness all of which 5E lacks.
Just hire a Warlord to shout at the GSL license and heal it into the OGL.
That's a thing, right?
True. 1e was such a cluster that, I've come to realize, we ignored or where ignorant of large portions of the game.
That is, 5e was meant to be a 'big tent' inclusive of the entire fanbase, in spite of how fractured it seemed in the aftermath of the edition war.
3 tiers lvl 1-7, 8-14. 15-20.
I am a fan of 5 tiers = proficiency bonus improvements.
1-4 (student, apprentice, page, jack) +2
5-8 (professional, journeyer, squire) +3
9-12 (expert, master, knight) +4
13-16 (luminary, grand, noble) +5
17-20 (legend) +6
For 4e-esque ...
1-8 Heroic
9-16 Paragon
17-24(!) Epic