Recent content by Charlaquin

Archery is literally fluff. Being able to attack a target from a distance, having disadvantage while attacking a target within 5 feet, those are real, meaningful mechanical differences between ranged and melee attacks, but whether that ranged attack is being made with a bow, a gun, a blast of...

Yes, this. Have the NPC express clearly that she doesn’t blame her brothers for leaving her, it was a miracle she survived and there’s no way they could have known she was still alive; she only wishes there was some way to let them know she’s ok.

Who cares when all of the builds do the exact same things as each other? See, this is a different complaint than “they weren’t versatile.” Like I said, it’s fine if you didn’t like 4e. But saying it’s classes were more homogeneous than 5e classes is just factually inaccurate. “Archery” is...

That’s precisely the point. What about rolling a d20 followed by rolling a fewer-faced die turn after turn is “versatile?” They can literally only do one thing.

And that alone was significantly more variety in actions.

Yeah they were dude. Different classes actually took different game actions with meaningfully different impact on the game state, instead of just rolling a d20 and then rolling a second, fewer-faced die literally every turn.

The classes were wildly more diverse than 5e classes.

I mean, the combat animations are a massive improvement from Origins IMO, but I can certainly see why it might have been surprising. You may be surprised to learn, where it came from was the original concept art. Qunari were always intended to be large bull men, but they couldn’t get the head...

The weird part is that among the “world stuff” are more small adventurers, tied to each region, and designed for characters of 3rd level and up. Putting the region-neutral adventure that brings characters from 1st level to 3rd after the region-specific 3rd + level adventures instead of before...

It’s so odd to me that anyone would hear about rule 34 and not try to find out what the other 33 rules are (though there are actually like 80-90 ish)

Remember, ENWorld’s active userbase skews old. You had to have either been in middle-high school, or a terminally online adult in the 2000s to be familiar with the rules of the internet. Rule 34 specifically achieved a broader cultural awareness, but you still need to be involved in online...

No, rule 35 is that if you can’t find rule 34 content for something, that content will be made. The rule you’re thinking of is probably either 44 (“If it exists, there is a version of it for your fandom... and it has a wiki and possibly a tabletop version with a theme song performed by a...

I agree that 5e’s adventures have great premises, lovely maps, and interesting encounters. I disagree that having those things tied together by such flawed structures constitutes a “very, very good adventure.” It constitutes something that a committed DM can make into a good adventure, but it is...

DA2 is way better than it gets credit for, but you really need to buy into the story it wants to tell. The first time I tried to play it I hated it because I was trying to roleplay an original character, and Hawke would not cooperate with me on that. I had to take a step back and realize that...

Phandelver is still by far the best 5e adventure in my opinion. All of the dungeons in it, though small, are very solidly designed, and it does a great job of being very open-ended while still giving players clear goals and a sense of forward momentum. The Sundering adventures were also quite...