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JohnSnow replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.I think I would like Level Up if I were not pathologically opposed to making 5e (especially combat) more complex and tedious. I’ve... -
JohnSnow reacted to Leatherhead's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with
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The exact problem was that they were trying to avoid stepping on each others toes. The artificial niches they ended up carving out so... -
JohnSnow reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
That is one way of solving it. I prefer a balance of in-character roleplay and robust, setting-modeling mechanics myself.
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JohnSnow reacted to Tesral's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Yes. Especially by the 3e skill system. Again D&D is a "No" system. Put down that interesting idea and get back in your box. You...
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JohnSnow reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
(I was considering 1974, but decided that AD&D with the ranger and paladin being "fighter plus" and referring to the fighter as "mere"...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.You mean like Ned or Robb Stark, or John Snow; all of whom have multiple skills, are well-learned, persuasive, and can survive in the...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.That's similar to the sort of thing that led to my thinking. There are a ton of (non-spellcasting) fighter heroes in fiction that...
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JohnSnow reacted to Koloth's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
For a real life example of a fighting man that had many other skills, consider the Roman Legionnaire. Pretty much defines the basic D&D...
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JohnSnow reacted to billd91's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I think the fairly obvious is that nobody decided this explicitly. Rather, it was the byproduct of other decision that had unintended...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Actually, I think the bigger problem with 5e (and 2024 exacerbates it) is that there's only TWO classes in the game for people who don't...
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JohnSnow reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
That might be an argument for intellectual or social skills in the way OD&D handled them; it wasn't a good answer to other sorts of...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Boromir is clearly a fighter. It could be argued he’s an NPC, but he’s still a fighter. Jackson films notwithstanding, the heaviest...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Agree to disagree. The game needed a way to resolve characters being good at things other than combat, and basing it entirely on...
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JohnSnow posted the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? in D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants.Okay, so this may be a bit of a "hot take," but I've realized that part of the problem in fantasy RPGs in general, and D&D-adjacent...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread D&D Movie/TV There’s a Baldur’s Gate TV Show Coming!.Dream World: HBO produces this Baldur's Gate sequel series. Netflix produces a series set in the Dalelands. Either they do The Knights...