Recent content by Guy Icognito

show me where I said I didn't want more complexity? show me the line! the problem is forced complexity rather than optional complexity. this fighter is TELLING people how to play rather than giving them the choice simple classes are popular. they need complexity for people who want them but it...

looks like the fighter is going down the 4th Ed and Pathfinder 2nd ed route of forced complexity rather than chosen complexity seems like a dick move to design the fighter for all the people saying "fighter sux!" rather than the people saying "fighter rules!" specially as fighter is the most...

That is a pretty, pretty DM screen And condition cards are nifty Rather see a full deck tho with doubles

Too bad that’s the 2021 line-up. We won’t get another DnD book until 22 A Viking setting or magic academy would be a rad campaign product for DnD Don’t much care for Magic tho. A DnD themed set is nifty for fans of card crack but I won’t buy

Level Up is planned to let players make a decision each level. New powers and class features This is going to make the character much more powerful. If each decision point buffs a character by 0.5% over the baseline non-choice, that's a 5% power increase by level 10 You just need to look at the...

Ha ha ha. Of course it wasn't Planescape. Wizbro has zero interest in any campaign setting published prior to 2003 They did Wildemounte and Eberron. And we'll keep getting Magic worlds. But Wizbro is convinced that new players only like new worlds. Since half the players are new, they're...

She was also hired as a rules person despite no prior gaming credits. Even on the Guild I believe Crawford said they could teach that easily enough. But I've seen enough terrible design online to know not everyone is a good rules designer or has a head for mechanics I wonder if she just...

It's hilarious to think that one of the big problems with the new player experience is character level vs. class level vs. spell level. As if anyone touching DnD before hasn't played a video game where their character is a level 10 warrior with two levels in rampage using a third level blood axe...

Wonder if Welch leaving has to do with the corporate culture of Wizbro. Orion Black leaving, Mearls still working there, and stuff like that The New User Experience of DnD is a mess. Big books and super complicated rules with a mess of legacy terms and rules 4th Ed showed really effectively...

This conversation isn't worth the aggravation...

Try reading. I said 15th level. And blight is a 4th level spell. Getting it at 15th level works just fine. Better than monks who get the ability to cast a level 4 spell at level 17. Which is what the 4 elements monk gets. When the ranger gets their level 5 spells the monk can cast wall of...

So you WOULD pick a ranger subclass that just gives you druidcraft and four Druid spells from a very limit list? Options are power. Getting blight as your fifteenth level class power is balanced then, right?

Wrong. Only one of the four Way of Shadows powers give a new use for ki. And one of the Open Hand Powers. Two of the four drunken master powers use ki. One of the sun soul powers. Two of the kensai. Two for long death. A solid majority of monk subclass features either use no ki or add bonuses...

I’ve typically seen it called “book of everything” online. How many new players to the game know what a Xanator is or how to spell it? Plus kids asking their parents for the new DND book for Christmas might be in for an unpleasant surprise.

Quit deflecting and answer the question. Would you take a paladin or ranger class that just gave more spells and nothing else. But we know the answer already... The answer is “no”. You wouldn’t. It’d be dumb. Worse than the beast master. Because unlike every other subclass it’s not increasing...