Recent content by Ari Kanen

Anyone know how CR relates to class level? If I wanted the party to take on a 4th level wizard, built using standard array, how difficult of a fight would that be for 4 2nd level PCs also using standard are?

How does one get to this from the website? Seems...unintuitive.

Reposting from roll20 forum, scroll to bottom for the trailer! Inspired by post-Tolkien fantasy literature (Abercrombie, Daniel Abraham, G. Martin, Richard Morgan) and movies such as The Road, 13 Assassins, Akira Kurosawa, and Valhalla Rising. Low-fantasy (humans only, so no elves, dwarves...

We've had a few PbP games going over on our Adventurer's League google group. If your interested you can check it out here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dnd-adventurers-league-online-collective

So, I'm a huge fan of what I've seen of 5e so far. I'm also a huge fan of Paizo, especially their modules, adventures, campaign world, and organized play. I'm sure Wizards will want to catch up with Paizo in those category as time goes by, but for now we've got a great game system with 5e (in...

I wrote this article after a bunch of discussion with my gamer buddies (many who play PFS) about how the AL model may seem unsatisfying and might actually be amazing... http://dndonlinecollective.blogspot.com/2014/08/in-defense-of-adventurers-league.html For folks that are familiar with...

I'm a bit disappointed that they've limited the options so severely for online play. Pathfinder has a huge online VTT community (there are like 2000 people signed up for a Google Group that organizes PFS games online). When I GM a game, I can find 5 players within a few hours during peak play...

Yep. Sorry, 5e.

I made a post, I think either on this board or Wizards that 5e pretty much captured what I was trying to achieve with E6 + Pathfinder. I think this is done with both bounded accuracy and how feats as a concept was re-worked. The devs have stated that magic items are not an assumed component...

I've been playing PF the past few years, after a year or so of 4e, and I can say that I'm happy with the direction I've seen so far from 5e in terms of optimization options. One interesting thing I noticed, especially in PF, is that PC optimization is really just an arms race against their...

I thought I remembered seeing a Google Spreedsheet version of a character sheet. Am I lying to myself? I thought it also had all the assumed classes from the PHB and not just the ones from Basic, but that part I'm not at all sure about. Can anyone link?

I think this sort of addresses the issue I had with converting 3.5/PF players to E6. Player's always looked at the book as all sorts of options they "couldn't have." I think this is one of the reasons it was hard for E6 to find wider adoption, formally. Informally, I think most campaign...

Yup. This is what happened to me as well. Matter of fact I looked at the playtest document thinking I would try E6 with that, except then I saw bounded accuracy, and realized if other components, such as feats and spells, stayed in like with it, the the philosophy of E6 was pretty much baked...

So after a full session of 5e, and reading through pretty much all new edition info that is out there, I've come to the determination that DMing 5e is pretty much the experience I was trying to capture with all the E6 variants I've attempted over the years. Combat seems fast (much faster that...

This is my hope as well. My current plan is to do my own reboot, using only Greybox, FR1-6 as canon. After reading through those again, it seems like pretty complete sandbox. Hopefully the new modules will make themselves easy to run but remaining relatively era-agnostic. What will be fun is...