Recent content by Greg K

That is not a good min-maxer. The term min-maxer originates from maximizing strengths and minimizing weaknesses.

Morrus, in the video he actually says that Diamond has thousands of his books. I should have been more accurate and edited my original post accordingly.

I should have been more accurate. He actually said thousands of books. Could it be 10K? 15K? more? I have no idea how many titles he has had printed or how large his print runs are for each title.

This is bad. Stephen Glicker at Roll For Combat posted on YouTube that Diamond sells products on consignment (Diamond does not own the products they sell). and Diamond sent him a letter that they are not returning the products that they have in inventory from him and other companies. Instead...

Btw, if its name is Doris, it really wanted to be named Natasha.

I think you mean Steve Long. He wrote the rules for 5th and 6th editions not 4th (although he did write some 4e supplements). The writers of 4e were George MacDonald and Steve Peterson along with Rob Bell (the editor of Champions 4e and the Hero System rulebook for 4e). As for the cost...

I was not saying break them and send them running. I am saying to mix things up. In my experience, If players know that they can't always rely on hyper-focusing their optimization on one thing and then rely on the other party members to always cover everything else, they are less likely to do...

Why not Boris?

One thing that I have not seen mentioned is that, if someone is optimizing to hyper-focus on one thing, they are going to leave themselves vulnerable elsewhere. GMs can take advantage and split the group. Put the character(s) in situations where the group is either split up by external forces...

I have said the following in other threads. There are several types of optimization and not all forms include power gaming or mini-maxing, I distinguish between the three and none of which need include cheating which is a separate issue. Player motivations can play a role in the type of...

Regarding slings, Ludus Ludorum had a great web article, A Defense of the Humble Sling. https://ludusludorum.com/2016/05/12/a-defense-of-the-humble-sling/

The rewrite sounds interesting. Have you shared it online?

Personally, I would like to break the Swashbuckler off into the subclass of a new light/ no armored warrior maneuver based classs with Corsairs/ pirates, ,Edo period samurai, Fencers and courtly sword duelists, musketeers, swashbucklers etc. being subclasses. Otherwise, I agree with the...

Sadly, the 2014 team did not go back and address it during the PHB creation after the design philosophy was nailed down. And the design team discarded the philosophy during the 2014 Edition after Mearls left as head of the D&D team.