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Lanefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with
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<shrug> I start with the system, and I extract the setting fiction and concepts from the rules. Since I play a lot of systems, this is... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction?.That tells me the range they claim to be 3-18 is functionally more like 7-14. The math is too flat. An Int-18 character should make a...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction?.Same here; with disease or accident able to expand that range down to 1 (at 0, you're dead or close) and up to wherever. In the game...
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Lanefan reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with Like.
I view the range of 3-18 as the spectrum of humanity barring disease or accident. An example that is hopefully not offensive is height...
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Lanefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with
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It represents someone who is much less likely (although not impossible) to succeed at tasks based around accumulated knowledge, and... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction?.Exactly. A stat of 3 indicates a character is above the movement-incapable or ventilator-required threshold but only by the slightest...
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Lanefan reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with Like.
Wisdom has always been my favorite dump stat for this reason!
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.Someone upthread posited that there's a trade-off between balance and freedom. For me, it's more a trade-off between balance and...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?.More like it's a windmill that a great many Dons Quixote like to tilt at.
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agree with 99% but, If I never see a reroll mechanic it will be too soon and I while I still do like advantage, it's so common now that...
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Lanefan reacted to Nod_Hero's post in the thread D&D General How Did You Generate Your Most Recent Character's Stats? with Like.
I don't think the DM was going for balanced. His quote was something along the lines of "If you are playing an adventurer, you should...
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Lanefan replied to the thread Thank Goodness for the Ignore Feature!!! (Spam-Killer).It's rarely if ever the same spammer blasting the site more than once, as far as I've been able to tell, so ignoring them won't help...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction?.Because due to both physical limitations and (sometimes) local laws we have to abstract nearly all the physical activities our...
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Lanefan reacted to THEMNGMNT's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with
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That 3 is going straight into Wisdom. Foolhardy, oblivious adventurers = great adventures. -
Lanefan reacted to Olgar Shiverstone's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with Like.
What an opportunity! I've never played a character as a player with a stat that low. The real question is where to put it? Sickly or...