Edgar Ironpelt's latest activity

I find that rules for ordinary weapons regularly breaking in use produce a stupid-silly game, not a fun one. I also have no problem at...

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild could have been one of the best video games of all time. But the constantly breaking weapon system...

1. I only run homebrew settings, so avoiding it is not specifically about Eberron. 2. I am just not into magitech, artificing, warforged...

That's the thing cap, I don't want to respect logistics.

A scratch, scruff, or bruise is bleeding. From Wikipedia: "A bruise, also known as a contusion, is a type of hematoma of tissue, the...

Because if the weapon weren't poisoned, it would be a narrow miss, and simply putting poison on a weapon shouldn't make it more likely...

It's table-dependent as well as game-dependent and absolutely follows the "What are hit points" question. In a D&D-style hit-points...

My answer of course is "it depends." Sometimes a setting conception will have a signature monster or small set of signature monsters and...

"Being tested for quick-thinking isn't my idea of fun" is a legit point. The counterpoint is that too great a discontinuity between the...

I've always run focused homebrew settings, with "take the rule-set and supporting materials, and cut away everything that doesn't look...

I see you as someone who would be better served by a system that just dropped inflationary hit points altogether. What advantage do they...

Hit points are whatever the GM can intuitively accept and get his players to intuitively accept. In D&D and most of its variants, it's a...

If a player in my game wants to roll dice to determine his character's reaction to an NPC, I consider that legit. That's the analogy I'd...

It depends on the campaign. My current Brotherhood of Rangers game is heavily scripted and without random encounters. In previous games...

5E's poor handling of mounts, pets, familiars and the like grates on me. They've become handicaps that have to be poke-balled to work...