Recent content by FitzTheRuke

Canadian Thanksgiving has slowed my time to write my judgement, but you can probably expect it sometime tomorrow.

True, though I feel like reach often makes more difference than speed. At any rate, we're a little into the weeds (not that I mind that, this is really meant to be a discussion, after all).

I know that one can't always trust reenactment for historical accuracy, but I once saw a row of archers fire their bows and then cover themselves against returned fire with their bucklers. It was enough to make it believable to me that such a thing could be done. It's also my experience (25...

And firing a bow?

Right. The game is weirdly reluctant to allow, say, a Die-Up of damage (say, a 1d8 to a 1d10) but then suddenly happy to give out an item that does a bonus 2d6 on EVERY ATTACK.

There is. I can't quite articulate why I don't like them much - it might be that they are just too darn expensive to bother with for much of the games that I play. They are also more complicated than I would like for what I see as little gain, though I may have to "suck it up" as this project...

What do you all think of items such as: Fire/Acid/Poison Arrows that do +1d4 typed damage. Medium (also possibly Heavy) Armor "pads" that get rid of Disadvantage on Steath. Shield "straps" that make it a Bonus Action to Don/Doff your shield. Mundane items that mimic the effect of spells, such...

That's great stuff. Ultimately, I would prefer to keep things simple, but I'm not sure how possible it will be to get the kind of thing that I want to see without it being a bit... involved. It's why it's taken me so long to get to this - I would rather "Houserule" as little things as possible...

I apologize to anyone following along that this project isn't going to move more quickly - I'm pretty busy, and I'm still mostly collecting thoughts, in spite of having thought about it for years. So this one is obvious, but I'm going to put my thoughts down here. Here's a pretty obvious...

So excited.

Apparently she thought that my post was too depressing, because she started acting silly (most energy she's had in days) since I posted that one and started looking more like this:

Thanks! I'll see if I can get to it soon. I've been a little low-morale lately. My (nearly) 14-year old Golden Retriever is ill - probably won't make it to next week. Here she is right now, poor thing:

I'll bite: How do you do 150 damage in one attack with a BG3 Fighter?