Recent content by James Gasik

I want to know what happened to sunrods.

I probably shouldn't have said 3.e was the turning point because it was a new edition...it was more that a lot more players were in contact with one another at that time thanks to the internet. Suddenly people were sharing notes about, well, everything. Just one example of what this brought...

I'm saying that putting yourself in extreme danger to save others without any protection is something people would maybe not be inclined to play in a fantasy game. Micah said he wanted touch only healing, I pointed out the problems that brings with it in D&D combat, he disagreed that it was...

My vote (even though I'm not a fan of it's 5e art):

Yeah, so? I wouldn't want to be one, would you?

While being in just as much danger as the person you're healing, if not more? Knowing that nobody has any ability to protect you from monsters, arrows, and fireballs? Seems like you'd end up spending most of your time healing yourself, or laying on the ground dying hoping there's a medic who...

Don't forget the mutant white dragon...

Because we actually want people to play medics?

Man I hope the average 0-level character doesn't have more hit points than a 1st-level Wizard. That's just embarrassing.

I'm a heretic. I'd rather have AC be a function of your class and not even have armor rules. I mean, how many fictional heroes (the ones D&D tries to emulate, that is) are running around out there with no or limited armor? And increases to AC come from class levels, so a Fighter is going to...

Yeah, but then every support class that heals has to be highly mobile to get close enough to heal and tanky enough to survive inevitably becoming the target of incoming monster damage, becoming some sort of inverse defender*, since abilities to protect your healer aren't built-in to any class...

Honestly, the idea that someone with 10 Str and 20 Dex is an ideal archer bugs me. I know why the concept has been streamlined. I actually prefer a game where you don't need to invest in multiple ability scores to be good at archery (at least, if everyone is going to insist on point-buy). But...

I have no idea how many bad DM's there are out there. I might be a statistical outlier because I've met far more bad to mediocre DM's than good ones, lol. I will say though, that while I do let my players vote on things, especially my houserules, and I listen to their input, the times I've...

Well yeah, but the analogy breaks down- we don't even have public phones anymore!