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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
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Or you could increase the difficulty of a maneuver if you try to use it multiple times in the same situation, to represent one's... -
JohnSnow replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.I’m not going to respond point by point, but I have been generally thinking of something similar to this for a while, possibly with the...
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JohnSnow reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
There's three things in WotC D&D that work against re-rolling initiative, two of which can be fixed with trivial ease. The first is...
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JohnSnow reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Great clarification, thanks. I had strayed from what you rightly point out was the premise here, whether OD&D was sufficient, because I...
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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.
Note I've carefully kept away from social or intellectual skills in this discussion, because that's been fraught, particularly 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?.I have mixed feelings about Kelsey’s decision to use advantage to reflect skill bonuses in Shadowdark. Because while I appreciate the...
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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...
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JohnSnow reacted to Leatherhead's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
The exact problem was that they were trying to avoid stepping on each others toes. The artificial niches they ended up carving out so...
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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...