Recent content by HeinorNY

This logic is flawed because Hit Points are not a wound tracker, they "measure your ability to stand up to punishment, turn deadly strikes into glancing blows, and stay on your feet throughout a battle." Being at full HP doesn't mean your character is "intact", it means he has all of his...

Why can't inspiring words heal HPs lost by being wounded? Nowhere in the book it says that when a character recovers HPs it means his wounds just vanished.

Jack Vance :.-(

It's Science fantasy. The weirder the better.

How far in the future did Jack Vance Dying Earth stories take place? The sun was dim and almost gone. Preventing the Sun from growing into a red giant and destroying Earth is something that, even if we don't have the technology to do now, at least we can imagine it theorically, which is...

What about "Fighter", with a military theme?

Hmmm... The problem in your examples is that they are absolutes. The Archer IS weak and boring, The knowledge skill IS useless and the hafling IS underpowered. The 5wd problem is not absolute. Magic users are not always stronger than fighters in encounters, they don't have to always go nova...

I played every edition of D&D pretty much like that. Except in 3E where the wizard, with Scribe Scroll at 1st level and a possible create wand and woundrous items later, never really needed to stop. The fighters and rogues went out of HP long before him.

I didn't play 4E. Wasn't the "15 minute wizard" a problem with all classes in 4E? What did prevent any class to go nova on the first encounter and then demand a rest to recover the daily powers for the next encounter? Even in previous editions, any class that had an important daily ability...

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Except when you counterspell the spell that is gonna kill your whole party, or heal an enemy that's was almost dead, etc.

I agree. the problem with those maneuvers in the past editions is that sometimes the simplest way to disarm an opponent was to kill him and then take his weapon.

What about when you roll a 20, you can trade the extra damage for a maneuver. You roll for normal damage and the maneuver just takes effect.

I use and love Vancian magic because it's by far the most realistic magic system!;)

The problem is that guys from organizations like ARMA have no idea how to apply renaissance martial arts against monsters, magical creatures and all sort of fantasy denizens etc. Whatever the advantage of fighting with two swords against another human in a duel is, I'm pretty sure it won't be...