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Lakesidefantasy reacted to billd91's post in the thread D&D General Blending individual checks into group checks with
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I think the nature of the individual task is getting kind of muddled here. There are some tasks where I think a group check would be... -
Lakesidefantasy reacted to Koloth's post in the thread D&D General Blending individual checks into group checks with Like.
One thing to keep in mind with group checks is how many characters can reasonably attempt the task at the same time. For opening a...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Li Shenron's post in the thread D&D General Blending individual checks into group checks with Like.
Yes, this is exactly the idea.
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General Blending individual checks into group checks.You bring up a good point, though. "Blended" is a good choice of words because this "blurs" the line between what is accomplished by the...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General Blending individual checks into group checks.That would not be blended.
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General Blending individual checks into group checks.I like the blended group check. Maybe after the second person tries and fails you declare that this is now a group check and we have two...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General Blending individual checks into group checks.This is what I call "Walking the Chimaera", because, as a Dungeon Master, it feels like the party is one body with many heads. I would...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.I'm not sure what balance is but some have suggested in this thread that the Standard Array is the most balanced. I think this is simply...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
This is an excellent point.
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Sword of Spirit's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
This is where I interpret ability scores a lot different than most people do. I spent a little bit of time a few years ago clearly...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with Like.
Well, yeah, if you have no control over where attributes land, its going to be hard to do that. Two things though: since you don't do...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.Well, we're talking past each other here so let's clear that up. First, I don't advocate for the Classic method. Random characters...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?."...in the place it will least matter..." Yeah, I agree. It's like dumping the trash; we're dumping the low score somewhere we can...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to PJSlavner's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
I DM a Pathfinder 1e campaign and my friend DMs a Dolmenwood campaign, which is like 1st edition D&D. In my campaign, they roll 4d6...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.Thank you for this effort. As long as we can agree on the extrapolation then we can compare all of the arrays. Another way to compare...