Recent content by doctorbadwolf

Absolutely. i love the vibe from that. So "class" is chosen later. I really like that. Oh i like that. Redwall style smaller critters or wider range?

FOr species, Dannan would replace elves (more Legend, creepy little half feral bastards with sharp teeth and inhuman beauty), orcs replaced by trolls (norse inspired), humans replaced with Fir Bolg (big people), and doragar (little quick smart folk based on critters like brownies and dwarves)...

Imagine! You are asked to make a 3pp DnD 5e competitor. The ask includes some odd restrictions. 1. No Fighter, Rogue, Cleric, Wizard. 2. No Plain Human, or Tolkein style elves, dwarves, orcs, or halflings. 3. Replacements cannot be the same thing with a different name, but it can be...

i get that for sure, but i don't think everything going up automatically works well, and i see no good way to use half level progression without it being either everything or sudden jumps. So since i am more bothered by big number differences and generally rapid improvement than i am by sudden...

This is a good argument for a 3 tier skill proficiency system, IMO. There would still be some things you would suck at, imo, even as you reach epic tier. But, if you can upgrade X skills by 1 grade at level 11 and 14 and 17, you would gain some incidental competencies.

Yeah what i said seems very clear to me, even just reading your quote reply, so idk. No worries, i just dont feel like arguing with someone i like about something like this.

I Have the opposite assumption, but i do think that once per tier every charcter should get a skill proficiency and some kind of benefit with saves eventually. I do think that it is good that some saves cannot be made without an external bonus, but maybe every PC could have a Heroic...

The only part i disagree with is the last, because i think that 5e's action economy is already too damn restrictive, and having to sacrifice main turn actions in order to be a defender against multiple enemies would be worse, not better. COmbining BA and Reaction into Quick Action is part of...

That is down to Del Torro and the makeup/costume team. Any good creature actor would be creepy in that. Jones is a very good creature actor, so he sold it well. Ward is a cryptid pretending to be a human actor. In the same role he would have been blood curdling.

I dont know how my comment can possibly seem to be unaware of any of this, so i am just going to metaphorically smile and nod and walk away. Have a good one.

Sometimes i still consider taking 4e and hacking the math and action economy to be more like 5e. Not the same as, but just no stacking bonuses, smaller numbers overall, maybe use advantage and a "reroll but take the second result" like Star Wars Saga, etc. Then simplify basic attacks to use...

By a huge margin. Like...massive.

If you read my whole comment, it is obvious that i am well aware. You didnt specify that death saves are replaced in the OP, and one of them involves 'permanent death save failure'.

I prefer point by with a higher point total than RAW, 32 or 36, but we do rolling (4d6 drop lowest reroll 1s, make a new set if it is weak sauce) most often. Sometimes the generous rolling system still ends up with bothinf above 13 amd 2+ below 10, and that just isnt fun alongside someone with...

IMO Jones isnt all that creepy, and id want Braniac creepy and alien and almost spiderlike, which Ward is simply much better at.