Lanefan's latest activity

Another option, which may or may not be available at any given time, might be to jump into an existing mid-to-high level campaign as a...

If you're just playing that one adventure, this is common: you roll up characters to the suggested level on the adventure cover. If...

If you didn't roll them in front of me, chuck 'em out and start over.

Fine, but boring. Where I want that as the default method of play all day long. If the game wasn't at heart a gamble, it wouldn't use...

Nah. If you're gonna have dice, put 'em to use. That, and not everyone is cut from the same cloth even in fantasy.

Boating? Either that's a typo (though I'm not sure of what) or you've hit a term I've never heard in this context. That said, the...

Yes, and they also provide a framework to begin to balance from. Rolling has its place (I love it in Shadowdark for example) but in...

Are arrays really that much faster or simpler than rolling some dice? OK, the actual rolling of the six sets of dice takes maybe an...

IME Clerics were generally pathetic at giving out damage, though they weren't bad at soaking it up. As a Cleric, my one good stat is...

True, when the rogue has both had the time and taken the time to set up that one-shot stealth kill. That kind of time is rarely if ever...

Training still does those other useful things though, mostly around forcing downtime. That, and I really don't like the idea of every...

That rather guts Con as a useful stat; how do you prop it back up? Also, your level 1 is my level 3. That said, to avoid 1-hit-point...

What I said could apply just as well to a single combat. Fighters (in theory) have the best AC (unless their players are woefully...

In fairness I can think of a number of reasons why one might want to report one's own post, mostly involving drawing attention to...

I am making it fun, for those not playing casters and-or for those who don't want everything to be predictable. Fighters are the...