D&D 3.x [Let's Read] The Frank & K Tomes

[VHawkwinter]

Frank insisting that despite actually being released, 5e was still vaporware because the "full version" was supposedly never released, only a scaled-down version.

The "full version" promised back in 2012 or 2013 was a modular game that would allow you to play it like bx, ad&d, 3e, or 4e. That product did never get made. That's part of what makes me view it as a bait-and-switch. I agree vapourware is the wrong term, but they did promise a game which never got made, eventually making something else instead, in a very "No Man's Sky Release Day" kind of way, though unlike No Man's Sky they did not bother to try to uphold those earlier promises later. (Much like when they promised to also put the 3.0 and 3.5 SRDs out in Creative Commons in 2023, and then just didn't. Their promises turn out to be lies quite a lot, unfortunately).

that's the sad thing about the Gaming Den. Many regulars end up repeating statements that make them look crazy and/or hateful to the wider public, and use the scorn they encounter on virtually every other site from saying such things as evidence of being persecuted geniuses.

Noted, other than my nitpick regarding it being true that the 5e which was actually promised really never released, and they put out a different game instead.

Neat title and cover art. Wishing you the best on its development!

Thank you!

 

[Alzrius]

One I know bugged me about 3e, is that an elephant falling off a cliff will much more likely to survive it than a mouse falling off of a cliff, and that is not how the square-cube law works. I houseruled that in my home games many years back now (fall famage is the same for medium creatures, but for each size below the damage is halved (down to 1) and then the increment is doubled from there; while for creatures above medium, the increment is halved to 5ft, and then the damage doubled per increment beyond that (and naturally flying creatures count as... IIRC 2 sizes smaller for fall damage).

Have you looked at Far Distant Future Publishing's Falling Damage Revisited? (affiliate link) It takes into account a lot of what you're talking about.

 

[VHawkwinter]

Have you looked at Far Distant Future Publishing's Falling Damage Revisited? (affiliate link) It takes into account a lot of what you're talking about.

No I hadn't heard of it. I just made my own houserule for it

By chance do you know one where they fixed swimming by creature density?

 

[Alzrius]

No I hadn't heard of it. I just made my own houserule for it

By chance do you know one where they fixed swimming by creature density?

Not off the top of my head, but I'll look around.

 

[Alzrius]

By chance do you know one where they fixed swimming by creature density?

So far the closest I can find is for the buoyancy rules (which include negative buoyancy, i.e. being pulled downward instead of upward) in Alluria Publishing's Cerulean Seas Campaign Setting (affiliate link).