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Flying Toaster reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with
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Or, as an alternative, give the fighter more options in combat. Instead of Attack, Attack, Attack, why not give the fighter... special... -
Flying Toaster reacted to GrimCo's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
If the intended goal is for fighters to switch up, use different weapons and do more than just pick greatsword and go to town, you can...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back?.When I played SFB the guy who hosted (because he owned all of the stuff) had at least three house rules designed to reduce complexity...
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Flying Toaster reacted to MGibster's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
I'm thinking the same is true of a complicated board game like Star Fleet Battles. The basic SFB game has about 400 pages of rules at...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread What do you do with a character when a player bails forever? with Like.
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right.If I am playing a spellcaster or martial artist, spell slots and ki points represent daily powers my character can use. Keeping track...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Not a Decepticon's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
I think everyone who played any vudeo game with breakable weapons disagrees. There is nothing about dnd and fantasy that is evoked by...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
The way I see it, we’re not looking at a pendulum swing so much as a branching. The industry didn’t collectively move toward...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
It think you seem to be defining "the industry" as everything other than D&D, which is still actually most of the market, and is/has...
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Flying Toaster reacted to John Dallman's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
I see two problems with that idea: Gamers will resist needing a VTT, provided by some third party, to play. When a company changes its...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
I kinda hope crunch comes back. I like more complex games. I'm a 3.Xe fan. My personal projection, though, is that we'll eventually see...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right.Some DMs have their own spell fumble systems, but it is hard to generalize about those since they are home brew. Some OSR games...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Edgar Ironpelt's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
I guess mileage varies. I've seen enough examples of elaborate and crippling spell-fumble systems over the years to disabuse me of the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
There are some players that will be unhappy if they aren't always getting what they want but in my experience it's primarily an issue...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
I think it's probably better to have weapon vs. armor type differences or just give weapons different bonuses/penalties in different...