Recent content by Charlaquin

Based on the OP’s username having changed to “Guest bunchofnumbers” since posting this, I’m guessing they either got banned or requested to have their account deleted.

I’ve run both, and I definitely found out of the abyss to be much worse.

Absolutely, which is why I started that post with “tastes vary, of course.” That’s not my intent. I was speaking of my personal experience. The people I have played with typically gravitate towards railroads if they are disengaged, and enjoy more nonlinear structures when they are engaged. I...

Tastes vary of course, but in my experience, disengaged players prefer railroads, because it requires minimal effort from them. Engaged players get bored of railroads because the effort they put into it doesn’t get rewarded enough, which can often lead to them becoming disengaged, and resigning...

Not as such, but magic like teleportation, scrying, sending, etc. enables almost as effective mass communication. Yes, but what one thousand year old elf knows is irrelevant when there are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of elves in the world. The long lives of these species means that...

There are two different problems with Tyranny. One is that when it was originally released, the combat balance was all out of whack, because it had been written while 5e was still in development, and some of the monster stat blocks changed between the writing and the release, which threw off a...

The problem isn’t that any individual elf saw any particular historical event, it’s that for any given historical event, there are living elves who saw it. EDIT: This also isn’t just an elf problem. Lots of species have long enough lifespans to make what should be ancient history into living...

I don’t think it’s blasphemy at all, I think PF2’s 3-action economy is brilliant. It’s beautifully elegant, it’s highly versatile, and it opens a ton of design space by allowing you to design activities that cost multiple actions or even variable numbers of actions. It’s by far the most...

That’s a good path.

Yeah, I’m on the same page as you on this matter.

It’s more obvious if you just look at the 2014 PHB. There are no universal bonus actions other than dual wielding in the original PHB; bonus actions were originally always granted by specific class features or by spells, and there weren’t yet that many such features. The rogue had a use for a...

Yeah, this is honestly the best way to handle it.

I mean, they’re only inelegant because the designers insisted in trying to pretend they’re an extra thing you only get sometimes instead of properly integrating them into the action economy. 4e’s action economy was elegant AF. 5e’s action economy is just 4e’s action economy wearing Groucho Marx...