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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+].Does the game really need yet more power creep? -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+].No. The original question that brought this up was one of how to make Humans a bit weaker in order to make non-Human species more...
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Lanefan reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with
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I think it is obviously far more accurate a representation, it just is not a perfect one. And it can certainly be reasonably argued that... -
Lanefan replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".That largely depends on the players and how immersed-engaged-invested they are at the time; and sure, intense engagement isn't going to...
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Lanefan replied to the thread Difficulty Numbers: Scaling, or Static?.Static, in the name of setting consistency. The cliff by the bay that's DC 20 to climb at 1st level doesn't change itself just because...
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This came up in he Daggerheart General thread and I thought I would move it to its own thread for discussion. In games that havel...
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Lanefan replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Pretty much, sure. The only change I'd make is the bolded bit would read "...uncertain actions that require abstraction and..."...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Never mind that sometimes those seemingly-trivial combats can turn out to be anything but. Take last night's session: party are partway...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.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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Lanefan 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.
Yes! I'm always interested in those kinds of mechanics. For example, the boss gets to immediately attack anybody who attacks it. I'm...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Maybe the answer is to somehow move away from a strict rotating turn-based system? In 1e, in theory everyone declared their actions at...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.This points to a trend across the editions that I'm not fond of: the emergence and allowance of jack-of-all-trades characters who can...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+].Makes sense. I did the same thing when someone once - via some lucky reincarnation rolling - brought a Centaur into my game. Its 4 hit...
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Lanefan replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Do I try to stab the orc or not? That's my choice as player. Do I succeed? Well, we can't role-play that out at the table very well...
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Lanefan replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Can't speak for anyone else there in terms of their prior experience, if any, with 4e. For my part, I already had some of the...