Recent content by deadman1204

Gotta agree here. The playtest version of bastions was an awful lot of busywork and book keeping for the sake of busywork. It didn't feel like it gave your character anything new. We could already rp having a fort without all the paperwork, and bastions were very careful not to give any actual...

illusion magic is always the biggest mother may I? Its soo fun to play if your dm plays ball, but its utterly about player creativity and lacks hard and fast rules. If you dm doesn't wanna play ball, everything ignores your illusions and your pointless.

Oh I don't mean to criticize and say they shouldn't have fun. Its great for them they can make so much money playing dnd and having fun. Who wouldn't be jealous. My point is more that they would certainly play the game differently if it was just them in a room, and it wasn't thier job to...

I think magic should definately be more lethal. However you have the video game balance idea that pervades modern dnd. Everyone should be equal. Someone holding a knife should have roughly the same dps output as a wizard. Thus magic can't really be as lethal as it should, because what about...

I wouldn't say its tightly scripted with a telepromter and such. However they make a very cushy living doing crit roll. They know their job is to be entertaining, not to actually play a game. So everyone acts and plays in a manner that plays to the audience. Remember, they make millions per year...

True, the later editions of dnd become more and more war gaming. 5th ed reduced or just removed all sorts of non-combat rules from earlier editions. While most editions have devoted the majority of pages to combat stuff, 5th ed took it further (I didn't play 4th, but 1, 2 , 3, 3.5, 5.0). There...

if you are sure they will win, add a 3rd so that you become uncertain. When fights are always designed to be won, there is no real challenge. You realize the entire game is on training wheels and becomes a story of how you win, not if you win.

I think its complicated by the concept of video game balancing. Everyone must be "equal" now. In older dnd, the cleric aws never gonna be a combat monster, and the wizard was gonna do hands down the most damage but had no defenses. However now everyone has to be able to do similar damage and be...

oh yea, forgot about dragon magazine. thanks

everyone is working with demons!

I'm confused by monsters on the OPs list. Utahraptor? That dinosaur wasn't even named until 1993, well after 2nd ed came out. How could that have been converted from 1st or 2nd ed when the namesake didn't even exist yet.

Thtas a basic design problem of 5th ed. ITs so over simplified that you get a single choice - subclass. Then maybe a feat or asi once or twice, then by lvl 8-9 the game is probably over. 9 levels and 3 choices, even though 2 were not real choices. Because there is a strictly better and worse...

hmm... chr and wis dont need buffing. Wis is a power stat. Perception? Best skill in the game, plus will saves? Chr is wierd because its treated like a casting stat, which makes litearlly no sense. Chr also has several stats. INT is what needs buffing. The only thing it does is give a few...

Hmm... they never said it wasn't for that either. However they all got legal threats for saying bad things about the phb...

a bunch of poorly altered rules with minimal/zero proof reading, causing alot of confusion. People will inevitably say "but were supposed to rai so its ok that wizards cant use a spell checker".