Recent content by EzekielRaiden

I'm PNW born and raised and that perfectly comports with how I would use that word. Writing a novel is a lot of effort. It is hard to write a novel. Doubly so to write a successful one.

I don't see how it has no impact on your chosen rubric. To whit: Railroading: Running systems which actively oppose railroading would directly help a GM see how railroading causes problems, while not railroading can be done without harming the cohesion and groundedness of the setting...

7th level now. Just got 4th level spells recently. Subtle and Careful metamagics. Careful has been quite useful, as noted. Subtle was vitally necessary at early levels, as I said to Mr. Farquhar earlier, and as I have actually seen opponent mages perform counterspell, it will be useful in the...

I play one. Right now. Every Monday. Jalt Kalthor (clan name first, as is traditional in Djerad Thymar), Draconic Sorcerer. I have not seen the incredible amazeballs results you describe. I have contributed, sometimes significantly. I am not a one-man apocalypse like you portray the Sorcerer to be.

And I still just flat-out do not understand how you can argue that the Wizard has nothing to offer while the Sorcerer is the best thing you could possibly pick. Better than all but two other classes, which are merely peers. That's my sticking point here. You are asserting the Sorcerer is...

There are several arguments in here. Some of them I agree with. Others I do not. I sincerely believe D&D would be in a better place if the GM were not required to be secretly attaching a ball-and-chain around the characters who coincidentally chose inherently powerful things, while secretly...

I agree, but if this is a 2000-lb argument, 1999 pounds of it are being carried by a single word: can. You can still be a bad GM even with this experience, and you can become a great GM even without this experience. But that is like saying that someone can be a terrible writer despite having...

If a "Random DM" is so impactful that they can swing a class from being the best option in the game to being second-worst, isn't that literally proof of what I've asserted to you all along, that mediocre or flawed GMs can absolutely ruin a 5e game and the system offers no method to address this...

Ironically I actually had good reason to pick up Subtle Spell as a low-level Sorcerer....because early on, I didn't have an actual spell focus, so I couldn't skip non-costly components. That made several otherwise-powerful spells inaccessible to me (at the start of Out of the Abyss)--but when I...

Have a look at the Sorcerer's level 6 abilities. Aberrant Mind: You can slightly more efficiently cast from spell points (which thus means you aren't using them for metamagic...), you have resistance to one rare damage type, and you have advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the Charmed or...

I didn't say you wouldn't have a very good GM. I simply said that the difference between "20 years with 2e + having played a handful of other systems" and "25 years of exclusively 2e" is significant. Again: diminishing returns. Once you've run a system for twenty freaking years, there is very...

...................... So if low-level Sorcerer sucks, and low-level Wizard sucks....and you agree that high-level Wizard is better than high-level Sorcerer... Then why, for God's sake, is Wizard ranked three tiers below Sorcerer?

And in my experience, a Wizard can do pretty much exactly that. 3-5 combats a day is the typical experience I've had, and that comports with every discussion I've had about it with other people on this forum and elsewhere.

Then why doesn't that EXACT SAME LOGIC apply to Sorcerers???? There are--only and exactly--four levelled spells that a Sorcerer can cast that a Wizard can't in that level range. They are, alphabetically by level, chaos bolt, flame blade, daylight, water walk, plus the cantrip sorcerous burst...

Are you then going to say that it is not "arrogance to the point of being deluded" to claim that someone can learn literally everything--absolutely ALL things--about GMing solely from playing one single system? That there is never anything, at all, ever, which can be gained from playing even one...