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CreamCloud0 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with
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Because that was the context my participation came up in, when someone suggested that it was a mistake to have any skill functions... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Note I've carefully kept away from social or intellectual skills in this discussion, because that's been fraught, particularly in the...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I think you're vastly overoptimistic in how often one can avoid that sort of thing. And rolling against an attribute is a poor man's...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I don't even insist on granularity; I'm okay with the skill system in Savage Worlds which defaults to awfully chunky. But its still...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Scribe's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Different.
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CreamCloud0 reacted to soviet's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
No they aren't! That's tautological. 'We've made fighter dumb jocks so now all the interesting fighter paragons are suddenly now a...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Corinnguard's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
In Level Up, all of the character classes were given features that covered all three pillars of gameplay- Combat, Social Interaction and...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to JohnSnow's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Actually, I think the bigger problem with 5e (and 2024 exacerbates it) is that there's only TWO classes in the game for people who don't...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to jmartkdr2's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
Because then all other races cannot have features any better than a feat and a skill point. Which barely captures what elves...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
Do you allow Evil PCs in your game? Or CN hell-raiser PCs? If you do, good on ya! :) If you don't, however, then you're making...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to fuindordm's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
Right you are, and the very best RPGs use the system to express the setting and its themes. But those games are not generic and usually...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to fuindordm's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
I think we have two camps arguing for two aspects of the game that are not actually in conflict. As a fantasy game system capable of...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
The GM and the players have different jobs, but the GM creates/decides on the world and all the things the player can choose from to...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
Worldbuilding and believability are much more important to me than making sure every possible heritage and class is available and every...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
OK, but what then takes Human's place as the baseline? If different species are to be measurably better or worse at certain things...