Recent content by haakon1

I deleted that part of the comment, but you saw it in time. Oh well.

Has anyone in this thread actually claimed this happened to them? If so, I missed it - I’ve seen “I heard this was a thing”.

I get the concept of having unique rules. Personally I would not go that way. I’d stick closer to the mechanics for similar weapons, like heavy crossbows. Maybe go with heavy damage and slow reloading, but keep the defense as AC instead of a save. But have the AC without armor?

I thought facial illiteracy meant not recognizing individuals rather than not recognizing emotions on faces?

I think there’s “presentism” there - one way to prove the present game is better is to diss the un-enlightened past, including straw man versions of the past. As for “proof” of the existence or prevalence of pointy-hatted DM’s, IIRC, “The Elfish Gene”, a British gamers memoir, talks about...

Yes, but more that I was never into 5e. I’m tired of playing it and of hearing about it. I know I’m not the target audience. I’m supposed to level up to 10th for a 5e2024 game on Saturday, and I’m just not feeling it.

I think I’m there too, mostly.

I mostly DM. I let people reroll the whole set of stats if they don’t like it. Not everyone is cut out to be an adventurer. Some sets of stats should probably stay home.

The target audience for 5e seems to have influenced the culture of 5e. I suspect we agree on that … how it manifests in detail … not so sure, but I think your examples are part of it.

I agree with your appreciation for Wrath, but I found HAT to be reasonably amusing as well. Each is of its era, I suppose. Wrath is a scrappy 3x homage to “first edition feel, third edition rules”, with its references to Greyhawk 1e adventures, but in the homebrew-like Izmer on the verge of...

I think it is much better. Less ambitious, but it delivered on what it was trying to do.

Agree on the latter, but he might turn on her if he felt that was more interesting.

I do Alerts - reactions and threads I posted on - first. Then Forums, Latest Posts, scroll to no updates since my last visit, then start reading titles upward for anything that interests me.

I have no idea what went on in the 33 pages of posts since the original (pretty good!) post 19 days ago … it seems one needs to visit ENworld every day to keep up with popular threads. But to the headline question, I think of setting elements like wars, climate, social and political structures...

This scenario has never come up in my 24 years of DMing 3x. I rarely use Surprise - I did it more in AD&D. I think it’s appropriate with planned ambushes while doing Overland movement, but not in dungeon crawling or situations where people are already on their highest alert. I do make careful...