Recent content by fuzzlewump

I personally think flanking is very important but 3e was my first real edition, I was very young while playing 2e. But the point I was more driving is that we shouldn't be ok with a rule being half baked and needing another system to make the rule meaningful. I think it's worse that the rule in...

Right, I get the metaphor, but wouldn't you want a flexible system with better more tested variant rules that you could then tweak? Like, that's just objectively better and makes a stronger game right? We should make that desire known as a subculture, rather than quietly house ruling it...

I see what you mean, but I wouldn't call that strong, it's just flexible. Any number of simple systems with somewhat bounded math like the d6 system or any dice pool system (shadowrun, wod) are flexible and can bend without being broken. Obviously it's a matter of degree, every rpg will be...

With 5e this mantra just comes across as weak design, and of course, if the answer to any criticism of the game is 'well just tweak it, that's what it's designed for,' it really kills any discussion, but I doubt that's what you meant. The flanking rules in the dmg for example just reeks of...

I agree with this, and I actually like that about 4E. I don't ever look at the books and strictly use the online material, for an online (roll20) D&D game. By freeing themselves of the constraint of worrying about making things obsolete, they were able to make a better (albeit messier) game. I...

I can't buy into this or similar arguments because FFG isn't making some stand and saying Jedi aren't included as to avoid a too many Jedi problem. The Jedi are coming out. They've simply set a Mace Windu time bomb that serves only to disappoint both parties, that is, the people who don't want...

I'm talking primarily about damage against the PCs. Blaster pistols will hit and wound PCs (using game terminology), those wounds can be healed with a medicine roll. But, to take you up on that 'first shot not killing a minion,' when does that happen in the movies? Blasters pretty much kill you...

It's a solid game with a good, albeit vanilla system. It's a system I could see being a 'World of Darkness' style system, and it's not bad. That said, at first glance, they failed at something critical for Star Wars. Whenever fighting with a blaster in the movies, there are (usually) two...

So I went through the rogue's skill tricks in an effort to generate discussion and feedback. I start with a summary, then my comments on problems and possible fixes. Charming Presence Spend your skill dice to charm a creature if your charisma check succeeds (as the effect, which gives you...

I don't really disagree with you, as with the definition of flexibility and complexity you are using you are correct. Nor do I know of what people on WotC boards claim, but here's a possibly what is meant and how I personally see it. Playing the cleric is less complex with channel divinity as it...

I think the issue isn't that resource management is a thing, it's that arbitrary resource management is a thing in AEDU. If the fighter using his encounter power or daily power is simply a luck thing in the setting, like the circumstances only work out 1/encounter or 1/daily about... then how...

Yes! Somewhere along the line, balance became synonymous with 'boring.' Which is nonsense. Your point is readily apparent when you look at non-d20 games like Mouse Guard for example. In that game, your skills (which encompass all of the game, fighting is a skill as well) are rated 2-6. A mouse...

Ha... yeah, good catch. My interpretation: Mike aka Gabe has his arms crossed in a defensive position, while also leaning back in his chair away from the conversation. (4e grognard.) Jerry aka Tycho is, in contrast, leaning forward in a 'edge of the seat' position, signifying he wants to know...

Curious, have you been on the player side of the equation for D&D next?

The 'One Unique Feature' examples you gave seem kind of... over-the-top? What is there for the group or DM who wants those features to be more gritty? i.e. not the daughter of a star or some such. Also, is it specific at all on how to make it not overlap with your background? Son of a Lich and...