Recent content by dave2008

Counterpoint, good armor good block crossbow bolts, longbow arrows, and firearms (of the era). A lot of factors played into it, but quality of the armor and angle of the impact were big ones.

Please do; however, these two 4e essentials books are the best 4e has to offer (just not as many monsters): Monster Vault - $8.99 PDF on the Guild (also available in PoD) Monster Vault: Threats to the Nentir Vale - $14.99 PDF on the Guild (also available in PoD)...

The 4e MM, and in particular the monster vault, are good resources for interesting monster abilities. 4e applied a lot more conditions and effects compared to 5e, so if you don't like that then 4e monsters may not be for you.

I found this part interesting: It cuts both ways of course, but encouraging people to play in person is a good goal IMO.

I don't have any personal bodily experience with HRT (I do have experience as my daughter and some of my friends are trans), but since we are sharing at the boarderline of TMI: First, I want to clarify that I am in no way a furry, but...when I was younger (and I still mostly agree still) I...

I have been thinking about that too. Combat checks and skill checks are both types of ability checks so it just makes sense (and easy to do). Adding spells will ruffle some feathers but I think it is the way to go too.

I'm not a facial hair person myself and prefer athletic but slightly beefier in my men. Which is odd since I am a heterosexual man!

Yep, he really opened my eyes to what fantasy archers should be able to do.

That is what I used to do, but now I am thinking it is more of a requiring stat, like @Micah Sweet suggested, and not a bonus to damage. So you need a 13 strength to be able to get proficiency in war bows which do more damage than a standard bow (w/ lower draw weight), but not an actual +1, 2...

In my "theoretical" D&D, Dex is the to hit stat with Str being the damage stat for all weapons.* Of course I would revise other things so there is no one uber stat. I thinking making them all relatively equal should be a goal of 5.2e or any version of 6e. *There will some exceptions, but that...

I find 4e monsters and monster powers in particular fairly easy to convert. My order of operations for monster reference is something like: Overview of existing 5e monster Review 1e version (that is were I started so they are the most "canon" to me). Review 4e version* look for updates to...

IIRC he does discuss that a little in this video (how you really need Dex to hit with all weapons, even greatswords, and war bows need a great deal of strength to use properly)

I think young dragons are tough as I generally think most of their uniqueness and interesting abilities come on a later ages. Though I don't think I ever use a dragon that is less than adult (and my adult dragons are equivalent to 5e ancient dragons).