Recent content by Garthanos

design the 4e character right and your weakest saves can be very close, in part because there are only 3 and in part because two attributes can support a given save. And because there are 6 saves some of which though rarer can be excruciatingly disabling this is not some minor thing even...

I want several of the 5e ranger hunter functions on the fighter class too :P

Generally speaking if you look at classless games they often include some stereotypical builds it highlights the function of classes and what they enable is easy creation of archetypes. In 4e another element approach to combat ie battlefield role was reflected as well (Gygax presenting fighters...

Yes the effective power of the A5e martials wrt each other and the 5e martials are fairly similar.

Being able to do tricks dependent on surprise or trickery so enemy once they have seen them are resistant to them (fool me once) always made sense to me. But doing a super leap that strains a muscle til you let it relax and other things makes sense to me as well. Not limiting those maneuvers is...

yeh 5e's broken arsed saving throw system where half of your saves get effectively progressively worse

Roles in MMORPGs are just descendent of roles less explicitly described in D&D (Gygax for instance very much emphasized the fighter defending their allies by being the front line) ... the source is off on that element for instance.

Wrecan a character on Order of the Stick. https://oots.fandom.com/wiki/Wrecan

AI is if nothing else incredibly fast at that kind of thing. You can even define design goals, critique existing things in terms of those goals and give it something new and get an analysis in terms of your established patterns very much about following your lead. You can use others analysis of...

I just found 2e to be way too close to just 1e with minor tweaks at the time and 3e really did seem to do a structural over haul.

Tell me how often that is useful and interesting in a story that is? I mean when does it ever come up in D&D and tell me how much grander their constitution is wait nope its not particularly any better (esp if the caster is defending that concentration) and how much are you betting the DM...

In general 5e is careless design (and cannot even blame huge amounts of products being produced this is 1 book) heavily favoring casters (even just doubling nearly your entire inventory of spells is insane - the army part is gravy on the goose and is not doing any thing particularly tricky...

Well casters get to be superheroes anyway like creating an army of simulacrum. Fighter is usually just the guy from the gym who college athletes can jump farther than ...not even Beowulf let alone Cu Chulaine. But at high level you can hit it one more time. Totally the same.

I cannot point at a source but I have read he indicated when he couldn't get his daughter involved in D&D he felt the game was for boys. (insert reasons/excuses that most would not consider valid). I recall the cursed magic item that changed your gender... apparently instead of a tool/blessing...