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It's been a while since I wrote the fireball analysis (and I didn't have the math know-how to get the exact odds), but I think the ogre...

This is how I do it in BG3, I don't bother with a rogue, just use guidance and a high dex score then burn a few inspiration points as...

I compare fireball against ogres to show how powerful it is, basically, how good is a 5th level wizard's fireball against a band of...

I guess it'd make sense to say perception can spot that there are tracks, but can't make any sense of them.

Maybe, but perception often still seems to take place of survival, often it's only a single roll so as soon as you slot the tracks...

I'm not sure exactly where I'd place the skills, but ones I'd rate near the top based on games I've played are athletics, arcana...

I find it can be good as a finisher when you really need to do damage without worrying about missing. They should probably up the damage...

I wonder if the fact that everyone recognises Perception is number 1, means we should probably call for Survival and Investigation more...

I think that can be a good way to do it, makes the survival trained character feel like it's more worthwhile. I often don't call for a...

Sometimes I allow either but its DC10 survival vs 15 perception.

Ithibk the tracking element also falls prey to the overuse of perception. DMs will often call for that instead of survival to see if you...

Might as well put investigation at the bottom since every DM seems to forget about it and call for a perception check instead.

Crutchy Tactical RPG? WTF is that! 80+ year old human characters down into the dungeon? and then I saw it was Crunchy. LOL

In the earliest days of 3e, I ran a campaign that was extremely heavy on prep. Every monster and NPC had lovingly crafted statblocks...

Obsidian is a great Tool, its one of my choices to create the Wiki, but is paid for use online. But the one file aproach of Tiddlywiki...