FitzTheRuke's latest activity

Dude, combat has been hit point based attrition since Chainmail

Attrition model takes time IRL. 6-8 encounters may be 3 or 4 sessions. And after 1-3 weeks between sessions people tend to forget...

I mean, that’s subjective, but “I don’t like the way this system is designed to work” is a very different complaint than “this system...

No, this is bad design. Why wouldn't you need combat to be balanced? That doesn't make any sense. How many of the fights in LotR were...

Making the math serve the narrative, nice.

There's also the issue that attrition-based adventuring is boring. I want encounters to be (somewhat) dangerous in and of themselves...

Surely the other issue is that mandating 6 to 8 combat encounters a day is ludicrously bad design. For a dungeonbash type adventure...

Mearls. "It's quite likely that a semi-optimized party can vaporize boss monsters in a round or even less." LOL. Referees been saying...

The next obvious question is: would 5E be as wildly popular if the majority of referees got this right? That is to say, if 5E wasn't...

Or that people just don't want to play that way (with lots of filler encounters that exist basically for attrition). One thing that...

And it does work really well when that rhythm is followed, in my experience. And it works fine when it is not followed, it just makes...

I made a bunch of camping gear that was was quasi magical but could be bought rather cheaply (for PCs spending coin). Things such as...

I would look into Level Up's magic item pricing and Tales of the Valiant's as well. Eventyr Games also do great item pricing. I like...

As for the Warlord, my idea to not cause the Warlord to be a battlemap slog or a turn interuptor is to have a Command aura. Those in...

1st to keep bounded accuracy, I would consider changing +X+X attack/damage on weapon to +Xd6 damage. +X armor can be 2X damage...