Recent content by Advilaar

Not as fun for some DMs... Also, touchy subject sometimes. There are some (a few who are very controlling) DMs who view any campaign that does magic item creation and shops as "Monty Haul", "munchkinism", and a host of other snarl words. It's work, too. You have to populate shops and such...

Still... Gold is, at the end of the day, a commodity. In the 3e DMG, it even talked about crashing economies and inflation if too much is unleashed. It should not lend itself to XP. Probably the reason that rule was ignored along with weapon speed, level caps, etc by a lot of groups. Now...

The 4e Defender lives to a certain extent in the battlemaster fighter with protection fighting style. That said, if a player came to me and wanted something more mark-y, pushy, and pull-y I would bend. However, it is unlikely due to the (somewhat unfair) bias vs 4e. And, as I mentioned before...

If gold equaled XP, most merchants would be demigods. Now, for my campaign, some of the merchants *are* near demigods. But, the characters are 20th level with epic boons and are exarchs and such. One such merchant is Wal'gren, a mercane that specializes in enchanting with residuum baths and...

There might be consumables like potions (unless we are talking about potions in enchanted vials of spell storing that confer effects as well) and scrolls in the 300 gp range, but when you start talking magic weapons and armor, needs to be at least 1000. And, that's used because it does not cover...

It is... Here is an excerpt of my house rules I have been using for it for the last 4 or 5 years that combines 3e, 4e, and 5e. It's not perfect, but it works and if a PC wants something odd, I research and talk about it.

Aha! That's where our old buddy 3e comes to save us from this rarity nonsense! 3e had effective plusses as well as enhancement plusses! (not sure if I am using the exact terms). Each magic item has two kinds of plusses. First, regular enhancement plusses. This is your +1, +2, etc plain old...

From talking around, most campaigns -now and back then -fell apart then restart well before level 6 on average. Well before that kind of stuff came into play. That, and a lot of DMs (from my experience) did not like the hassle. I guess me and my crew are a bit weird. It's the reason...

This is EXACTLY the spirit of 2e/1e style without all the baggage. Your high level characters have henchmen and followers and the epic campaign spans... just like 2e. A playstyle lost 4e on up. 5e progression and ability and level caps are fine unless we are talking ultra high epic (epic...

I know how 4e is considered, but I wanted to touch more about how I think residuum and disenchantment is a GREAT idea, and I am not sure why they did not keep it going into 5th. How many times, particularly in 2e or 3e or 5e did you run into a cool treasure like magic stuff you could not use...

All these races were included because they are the legacy of DnD. Even if some are disliked there are other that do. Even tieflings or gnomes which seem to be the usual suspects when this comes up. EXCEPTION IS THE KENDER. (aka: lets swap inventory sheets and opposed perception/ sleight of hand...

Well put, Celebrim. The trolls are not entertaining and do not contribute to the goal of producing the ultimate DnD edition hybrid! The original promise of being able to honor a character of any edition or at least taking the best from all. Here's my somewhat incomplete take (which I have...

I might be wrong, but I don't think biological sex ability caps were a thing in any edition. As far as racial, yes, there have always been some pluses and minuses. The only caps I know of were 18 for most PCs in 1/2e and the soft caps of 20 and 30 in 5e. But those applied everywhere at least for...

3e Multiclassing was a very positive step away from the level limit demihuman multiclassing and nonsense dual class rules of 1/2 e. But, 3e left itself prone to "cherry picking" since many classes, like the fighter were heavily front loaded with class features. I'd use 5e's multiclassing. You...

Differing XP tables (along with THAC0) is one of the absolute last things you would want to keep from older editions. If anything, you would want more 4e/5e optional milestone XP rules. I personally use a hashmark system and have been using it from 3rd edition thru 4th and into 5th. You...