Recent content by Krachek

Too many was 4ed. Base bonus to hit +15 Then Add +1 from one of your power Then +2 from another power Then +1 from ally A Then +2 from ally B Then -1 from enemy X Then -2 from enemy Y Finally you remember that your are bloodied giving you a +2 Then you ask if your target is also bloodied giving...

To me it look like an evolution of DnD 4ed, stepping further away from original DnD. Domain cards and class cards are in line with 4ed vibe. They got very interesting new mechanics with the fear/hope and the spotlight cycling. Despite it claims to offer cinematic gameplay, there are many crunch...

I see there the usual DnD 5ed experience since 2014. PCs are the heroes and monsters get steamrolled most the time. Work as intended.

Lost

I can’t tell for the best movie, But one of the first wonderful scene was in X2 when Nightcrawler make his way into the White House teleporting and smashing all the guards. For the time it was pure gold.

For 5ed economist would praise for a Left hand bonus action and right hand bonus action.

New coke analogy can fit 4ed, but to claim that 5.24 will be a disaster is playing prophet of doom.

Enough to challenge the party, and not too much to make the party useless.

Asimov, Foundation. A plan to rebuild a civilization.

I suspect that there are DM facing players that loot everything till the bone marrow of any monsters they defeat. Assassin and Hobgoblin does poison damage, I want it toooooooooo!

Indeed, stop trying to make a PC somehow invisible in the middle of a fight! Find a new feature name like : feint or elusive. Allow to make sneak attack when it succeed, but forget the invisible part.

It’s hard to stick to basics. The DM describe. The players tell want he want to do. If the DM call a damage, I should take it without a flinch. But I can analyse that fact and meta game the average damage, or even pretend that my characters should know the average damage of this kind of...

Indeed it was pretty hilarious to read about people playing an elf wizard that cannot admit that the fighter can make a reroll for the sake of the Verisimilitude.

It remind me the old debates about rerolls and their disruptive effects of the verisimilitude principles.

With new names, this debate turn around the old opposition between two approaches of the game : the game school and the realism-simulation school. Gygax already discuss this in the old DMG. I have been a fan of the realism-simulation school in the past, but I found enough dead end and paradox...