Recent content by GMMichael

3 INT would be a compliment for my chi! Rolling a 3 or 4 isn't - statistically - a big problem. But hey, you could roll one. Just don't put it in an attribute that you like. Maybe Shadowdark requires assigning down the line . . . then own it. Why play Shadowdark if you don't like the rules...

Epic ninja, @JohnSnow . I think you beat Mustrum by what, 15 hours? 🤓 I'm not super-excited to tinker with D&D, especially something as fundamental as AC, because you have cascading consequences to worry about. Racia . . . species abilities, class & subclass abilities, spells, monster...

Well, if they don't, then they don't live very long. It's hard enough to get the party cleric to CLW one of the PCs before they die, much less one of the party beasts. Thanks for clarifying that, D&D. I'm pretty sure you're taking a different kind of rest when you have 0 hit points.

It's crazy that you should role-play your character? Is the other thread not about a role-playing game? Or the creator believes in the power of GMs. That was my takeaway from a skim or two. I'm pretty sure they're characteristics. But yes, GMs generally shouldn't penalize PCs. Unless...

I think you just described Modos RPG combat to a T. Well, except for the part about strength affecting damage. It's not easy to make a case that agility or intelligence have less to do with damage than strength does. Good to know that the concepts are 50 years old :mad: I use a...

Those 3.5 books don't die just because some of their rules do. Convert! Realistically, if you're playing 5/6e now, you're still playing 3.5, just with kid bonus gloves on and 4e healing thrown in. No, but they say Baldur's Gate 3 runs on 5e rules. It might be a good taste test.

One of the (gulp!) good things about D&D is that its prevalence makes it easy to playtest. If there's one rule or mechanism you want to tinker, you can probably get 6 players lined up on Roll 20 in a heartbeat. Hmm, maybe a bad example, because I think Roll 20 has D&D mods, and some players...

Is there an underlying assumption that this is supposed to apply to D&D? Otherwise, I'm not seeing how hit points, monsters, weapons and spells need reworking. Armor as DR works just fine as a static number if you're trying to avoid another roll. If it's a reduction of the die type, it loses...

I'm so confused. What's an SLA? Which edition is the 2nd? And what's an Industries Worlds?

That's cool. Make up something that works. I have to wonder: what's our takeaway from 6e's concessions to today's players? Death saves, conditions, OpAttack . . . Were earlier editions not simulationist enough? It feels more like "I don't want my character to be in danger" when you factor in...

There's a technical addition that needs to be made here: "If you spend 3 Death Save failures in this way, you do not die until you reach 0 hit points." Well, there is a way to get full activity while dying: start your dying when your character drops below 10 HP. That way, you get a 10-point...

Your point takes a PC's perspective. But PCs don't implement alternative rules; DMs do. So I'm not sure how your point applies to the OP. What I do know, is that a DM should be playing NPCs faithfully, so some NPCs would attack downed PCs and some wouldn't.

DMs don't attack downed PCs; NPCs do.

For starters, fantasy and science might each represent a faction. There's no imbalance to "correct" if those two factions are equally situated. (See also: espers vs. empire in Final Fantasy 6.) There's also a strain on the "acquire the powerful artifact" plot. What's the point of questing...

Yeah, I don't know how much originality to expect from this one. The real star of the show (seen at 1:28) probably has limited screen time :(